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darkcloud4579 · 07-06-2003, 08:38 PM

NEW YORK - After the World Series win of the New Jersey Cyclones, an emergency session of the Board of Governors met the following Monday. The discussion consisted of myraid questions. "What happens if eight teams are within a game of each other?" "What happens if teams are tied, how do you determine who gets in"

The questions were plentiful, but at the end of the day, the league decided to malign the bypass division champion with the same asterik that World Series Champions from a bygone era like the Florida Marlins and Anaheim Angels, both teams having been moved, who won World Series titles via the Wild Card.

Will the Cyclones be one hit wonders? "Hey, we won a division title. We're not like those Wild Card teams. Sure, they changed the alignment to make it work. But, we still have a banner out there that says "2007 Northern Division Champions", its not like Boston won and got denied. Rules change, that's the game", said Cyclones manager Cito Gaston, who has now won 3 World Series titles (2 with Toronto in 1992,1993) and with two different clubs. Can he become the first manager to repeat with two different clubs?

"I'm not thinking about that right now. I just want my guys to play hard and win our division, now that they've changed the rules. We anticipated this would happen and that's how they got motivated. It was their chance. Life is all about chances and if you don't take the ones you get, you might not get another one. We took our chance and we got rewarded," Gaston said as he looked down at his championship ring.

07-06-2003, 08:38 PM	#57
darkcloud4579 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 8,689	BOARD OF GOVERNORS REPEAL BYPASS RULE NEW YORK - After the World Series win of the New Jersey Cyclones, an emergency session of the Board of Governors met the following Monday. The discussion consisted of myraid questions. "What happens if eight teams are within a game of each other?" "What happens if teams are tied, how do you determine who gets in" The questions were plentiful, but at the end of the day, the league decided to malign the bypass division champion with the same asterik that World Series Champions from a bygone era like the Florida Marlins and Anaheim Angels, both teams having been moved, who won World Series titles via the Wild Card. Will the Cyclones be one hit wonders? "Hey, we won a division title. We're not like those Wild Card teams. Sure, they changed the alignment to make it work. But, we still have a banner out there that says "2007 Northern Division Champions", its not like Boston won and got denied. Rules change, that's the game", said Cyclones manager Cito Gaston, who has now won 3 World Series titles (2 with Toronto in 1992,1993) and with two different clubs. Can he become the first manager to repeat with two different clubs? "I'm not thinking about that right now. I just want my guys to play hard and win our division, now that they've changed the rules. We anticipated this would happen and that's how they got motivated. It was their chance. Life is all about chances and if you don't take the ones you get, you might not get another one. We took our chance and we got rewarded," Gaston said as he looked down at his championship ring.