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Friday, April 16,1993
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Recruits
Continued from Page 7
run at the Southwest Conference
title next season under the guid
ance of All-SWC players David
Edwards and Damon Johnson,
A&M did not lose a player off of
last year's team, and will have
their first full amount of scholar
ships since the Kermit Davis
regime. That has enabled the Ag
gies to sign more quality players.
Smith was named Class 5A
player of the year and is now in
the running for the Texas Mr.
Basketball award. He set eight
school records while leading the
Stingarees to four district cham
pionships, and was named most
valuable player at the Class 5A
state tournament in 1992.
"All our freshmen our good
kids and they all come from win
ning programs," Barone said. "1
really think it ups our program
because success breeds success."
A&M is expected to sign their
last recruit of the year Friday, hut
because of NCAA recruiting re
strictions Barone was unable to
comment on him at press time.
Baylor
Continued From Page 7
tention, but I don't think Texas is
as good as they were last year,"
Lewis said. "They (Texas) have a
good team but I think we are bet
ter than them.
"But to prove that, we need to
go out and have a big series
against Baylor, which won't be
easy. We will definitely not take
them lightly."
A&M coach Mark Johnson said
he is awaiting the Baylor series.
"Baylor's got a good team,"
Johnson said. "We expect to have
our hands full and we're really
anxious to get started and see
how we match up."
Rush
Continued from Page 7
like, so allow me to convey to
you some of my concerns for my
favorite game.
First of all, the idea of inter
league play is...wait a minute,
isn't that the whole point of the
World Series? I thought that the
idea of such great match-ups as
the Battle of the Bay, the brag
ging rights to New York, the 1-70
Series, and a very unlikely and
not yet played Lone Star Series
were solely reserved for the Fall
Classic, not regular season play.
Am I wrong here? Does baseball
have to play follow-the-leader
and conform to proposals that
will change the face of the game
that so many people have come
to cherish so deeply?
Furthermore, is a new playoff
system necessary, or even feasi
ble? Is there something wrong
with the current setup? I think
four qualified teams is unique
and, well, perfect. Baseball
teams currently have goals other
than making the playoffs or get
ting a wild card berth. These
clubs play hard for 162 games,
and if that's not good enough,
pack up and wait for next sea
son.
When was the last time a
team repeated as champions in
professional baseball? Fifteen
years ago, with the 1977 and
1978 New York Yankees. This
just illustrates that the playoff
system currently used in base
ball makes it hard to repeat as
champion and therefore is more
challenging.
The San Francisco 49ers of the
NFL and the Chicago Bulls of
the NBA are just two examples
of recent back-to-back champi
ons in other professional sports.
Not to say that these teams were
not the best in their respective
leagues, but they had the chance
to enter the playoffs, even if they
had an extended losing streak at
the end of their season. Not so in
baseball.
Other plans to ruin the
game's individuality call for the
expansion of both the American
and National league to hold
three divisions as opposed to the
current two. The split will create
two divisions housing five
teams, while the remaining four
teams would constitute a newly-
created third division. The play
off teams would then be selected
from the three division leaders
and a wild-card (the division
runner-up with the best record).
As for these proposed plans
of expanding the already exist
ing divisions, why? With seven
teams in each of baseball's four
existing divisions, everything is
perfectly neat and orderly. Why
change a system that has been
working for nearly a century. To
this I say simply, "If it ain't
broke, don't fix it."
Owners say that by restruc
turing both the divisions and
playoff systems, more revenue
can be generated by creating
possibilities for second place
teams to enter the playoffs.
Money is great and all, but
enough!
Money has done enough to
professional sports as it is. Cre
ating more revenue through this
newly proposed restructuring
will only equal even bigger
salaries and astronomical fig
ures. Ten million dollars a year
will be protocol and baseball's
name will sink even further
down the proverbial toilet. Is a
few million here or there to a
franchise or the league that im
portant? Does this proposal real
ly mean that much to dismantle
the structure that baseball has
provided throughout the
decades? I think not.
If these new plans are ap
proved and then implemented,
what is to stop two more expan
sion teams from entering into
the league to form three divi
sions of five teams each? Person
ally, I believe that since the 1993
season began with 28 teams in
all, including two newly-drafted
expansion teams, it should re
main that way forever. If base
ball is so dry, boring and unwill
ing to change, why did they just
adopt two new teams and have
a league-wide expansion draft to
fill the rosters of these two new
teams? If memory serves right, I
don't recall any recent expan
sions in the NFL.
Maybe the baseball season is
too long for some, and even I
agree that the playoffs tend to
drag on a bk. But change is not
the answer. Maybe the new sys
tem would»M-ing in more rev
enue and allow for more teams
to have a shot at the playoffs,
but then what is the point of
having 162 games or giving the
Cleveland Indians a shot at their
dream? Let the game remain
what it has become today. Why
change f he one constant that has
been there over the years? Why
follow the lead of others?
Change can be good, true, but
for some things it is better to
leave them as is, and such is the
case for America's pastime.
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