Word: nl
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...home team, which should be enough for a "celebration of baseball" exhibition contest in the middle of a 162-game season. Celebration of baseball? The Mariners and Yankees are baseball at its best, and not just because since 1995 they've sprouted a rivalry hotter than any AL-NL faceoff. Because most of them aren't household names...
...point of the season, the 33-54 Reds have the worst record in the National League; Griffey was neither voted onto the All-Star team nor selected by NL manager Bobby Valentine. His replacement on the Mariners, the aforementioned Cameron, got a rousing standing ovation in Seattle when his selection by Torre to replace Vaughn was announced during a recent game...
...That's who the fans want to see on the big mid-season stage (plus Cal Ripken)? Fine. It'll be the high point of the season for most of these guys - the combined fan-elected starting lineups of the AL and NL have all of two World Series rings between them. "Star" is an individual term, and these guys, by themselves, are the ones putting up the numbers...
...Yankees over A's NL: Braves over Diamondbacks...
...Yankees over A's NL: Cardinals over Giants...