Phillies Upset About World Series Introductions

Phillies forty year old Matt Stairs was sitting in the dugout a few minutes before the start of game 1 of the World Series. He was playing in the Fall Classic for the first time in his 16 years in the majors and was looking forward to his name being called out in front of all of the fans. But then the Phillies PR representative came into the dugout and said that only the starting players would be announced on the field and on national television. He waited his whole life for this moment to come and just like that it was gone. Stairs and the rest of the Phillies reserves were allowed to walk out onto the field but they were not introduced to the TV audience or even the crowd.

If you were in Stairs' position, how would you feel about this particular issue. I would be extremely pissed off, and I assume most other people would be too. He waited his whole MLB career for this moment to come and at forty years old he probably won't get to many more chances to here his name called in the World Series. I think if your team makes it to the World Series, everybody that is a part of that team should be recognized because you are one of the only two teams still standing at the end of the season. This is what Stairs had to say about the whole situation:

"It's disappointing and some guys were extremely mad about it. I think it's
bootleg when you have the World Series and guys are jogging out to the line and they don't take the extra five minutes to introduce the players."

The Phillies aren't just going to let this go. They are going to try and do something about it, which I think is the right thing to do because the players got shortchanged. The Phillies have asked their union to petition Major League Baseball on their behalf. A few players talked to reliever Ryan Madson, who is the teams alternative player rep, and he called his lawyer to see what they could do. He hasn't herd back from him yet, but they are planning on fighting for some sort of change in the introductions. Madson had this to say:

"It's kind of weird guys that played 20 years-- you get called out for Little League all-stars when you're 12 years old-- and we're on the biggest stage in the
world, and they didn't do it for some reason."

I totally understand were Madson is coming from. I played on a little league all-star team and we always got our names announced whether we played or not. If you can take the time to announce a bunch of little league kid's names, then why can't you announce the names of the players that made it to the biggest stage possible.