re espn and expansion in article c u c ucdavis edu itlm dale ucdavis edu donnie trump writes i was watching peter gammons on espn last night and he s got me a little confused while talking about expansion he started mentioning people who might benefit from the fringe players they ll be facing mcgriff hitting home runs sheffield getting rbi s and glavine winning games this was of course all in reference to what happened the other times that baseball has expanded early s late s late s what really confused me though was the mention of al players who would do well next year specifically roger clemens winning games and the likes of mcgwire and gonzalez hitting home runs my question is how in the hell will the rockies marlins help the al the last time i looked there wasn t a lot of talent jumping leagues did i miss something only if you persist in believing that peter gammons is more knowledgable about baseball than the average mailbox okay i m overstating still the man actually had the gall to say that one out of every six pitchers in the nl this year did not pitch in the majors last year huh imo this expansion will not see the explosive jump in offense that the other expansion drafts had since the talent was diluted over both leagues in gammons defense because the talent drain came from the al as well some increase will be seen he also gets credit for mentioning that the jump in offense was due also to the rules changes after the season he s still full of it kurt bose as in daisy not rose kbos carina unm edu if you take out all the f ks this is an page book wally backman leafing though a copy of mets teammate lenny dykstra s autobiography nails
