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Well, certainly in jest. I'd like an asteroid to take out the entire Yankees ball club. And maybe even some past Yankees as well.

There is an actual rule in MLB covering how teams can draft players from other teams in the event of a catastrophe in which five or more players are killed.

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Is there really?

Most sports have a disaster draft provision.

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Major League Baseball's disaster plan is covered in Rule 29 of its official rules.[2] The plan is triggered by an event causing the death, dismemberment, or permanent disability of at least five players from a team's active, disabled, or suspended roster during a season (including the playoffs), or at least six players during the off-season. Major League Baseball's commissioner will decide if the disabled club can continue play, in consultation with the MLB Players' Association and the club.

If the commissioner decides that the disabled club will continue to play, the commissioner may hold a Restocking Draft to allow the disabled club to select as many players as it lost, with the restriction that no more than one player can be selected from each team. Each of the non-disabled teams makes five players available for the draft taken from its active list (or if during the off-season, from its reserve list), composed of one pitcher, one catcher, one outfielder, one infielder, and one more player of any position, subject to adjustments by the commissioner based on the players lost by the disabled club. If a team has fewer than three eligible catchers, it does not have to provide a catcher to the draft. The non-disabled teams also are required to make available as many players with 60 or more days of Major League service time as of 31 August of the season preceding such draft as the number of such players lost by the disabled team.[3] Any player with no-trade rights with regards to the disabled team may not be made available unless the player waives the right.

If the commissioner decides that the disabled club cannot continue play, the commissioner will cancel the disabled club's season.

The commissioner and Players' Association can also agree upon other appropriate relief for a disabled club.

Major League Baseball's first expansion drafts of the early 1960s were based largely on the procedures first set out for the disaster draft.[citation neede

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Yup, Rule 29 of MLB's official rules lays out how a "Disaster Draft" would work.

Someone once said it was started because of this crash but i am not sure when the rule went into affect.

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The University of Evansville men's basketball plane crash occurred on December 13, 1977, at 19:22 CST, when a Douglas DC-3, registration N51071 carrying the University of Evansville basketball team, crashed on takeoff at the Evansville Regional Airport in Evansville, Indiana. The aircraft lost control and crashed shortly after lift-off.[1] The plane was on its way to Nashville International Airport, taking the team to play the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders.

The National Transportation Safety Board blamed the crash on the pilot's failure to remove gust locks on the right aileron and the rudder before takeoff, as well as an overloaded baggage compartment. The NTSB report said that the plane might have been able to stay airborne had only one of the problems existed. As it was, the extra baggage shifted the plane's center of gravity to the back end, and the locked rudder and aileron made it impossible to provide the needed lift to overcome the extra weight.

Two weeks after the crash, the only member of the basketball team who was not on the DC-3 was killed after being hit by a drunk driver, leaving all of the members of the 1977 Purple Aces Basketball team dead. A memorial has been constructed at the University of Evansville known as the "Weeping Basketball." On stone slabs are engraved the names of the members killed in both the plane crash as well as the student killed in a car accident. Also engraved is an excerpt from the eulogy delivered by school president William Graves at a memorial service: "Out of the agony of this hour we will rise."

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Someone once said it was started because of this crash but i am not sure when the rule went into affect.

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The University of Evansville men's basketball plane crash occurred on December 13, 1977, at 19:22 CST, when a Douglas DC-3, registration N51071 carrying the University of Evansville basketball team, crashed on takeoff at the Evansville Regional Airport in Evansville, Indiana. The aircraft lost control and crashed shortly after lift-off.[1] The plane was on its way to Nashville International Airport, taking the team to play the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders.

The National Transportation Safety Board blamed the crash on the pilot's failure to remove gust locks on the right aileron and the rudder before takeoff, as well as an overloaded baggage compartment. The NTSB report said that the plane might have been able to stay airborne had only one of the problems existed. As it was, the extra baggage shifted the plane's center of gravity to the back end, and the locked rudder and aileron made it impossible to provide the needed lift to overcome the extra weight.

Two weeks after the crash, the only member of the basketball team who was not on the DC-3 was killed after being hit by a drunk driver, leaving all of the members of the 1977 Purple Aces Basketball team dead. A memorial has been constructed at the University of Evansville known as the "Weeping Basketball." On stone slabs are engraved the names of the members killed in both the plane crash as well as the student killed in a car accident. Also engraved is an excerpt from the eulogy delivered by school president William Graves at a memorial service: "Out of the agony of this hour we will rise."

Holy cow. That's like a real life Final Destination movie. Spooky.

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Someone once said it was started because of this crash but i am not sure when the rule went into affect.

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The University of Evansville men's basketball plane crash occurred on December 13, 1977, at 19:22 CST, when a Douglas DC-3, registration N51071 carrying the University of Evansville basketball team, crashed on takeoff at the Evansville Regional Airport in Evansville, Indiana. The aircraft lost control and crashed shortly after lift-off.[1] The plane was on its way to Nashville International Airport, taking the team to play the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders.

The National Transportation Safety Board blamed the crash on the pilot's failure to remove gust locks on the right aileron and the rudder before takeoff, as well as an overloaded baggage compartment. The NTSB report said that the plane might have been able to stay airborne had only one of the problems existed. As it was, the extra baggage shifted the plane's center of gravity to the back end, and the locked rudder and aileron made it impossible to provide the needed lift to overcome the extra weight.

Two weeks after the crash, the only member of the basketball team who was not on the DC-3 was killed after being hit by a drunk driver, leaving all of the members of the 1977 Purple Aces Basketball team dead. A memorial has been constructed at the University of Evansville known as the "Weeping Basketball." On stone slabs are engraved the names of the members killed in both the plane crash as well as the student killed in a car accident. Also engraved is an excerpt from the eulogy delivered by school president William Graves at a memorial service: "Out of the agony of this hour we will rise."

Never mind looks like baseball provosion was started in 1965. Perhaps it was another sports league.

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Well, certainly in jest. I'd like an asteroid to take out the entire Yankees ball club. And maybe even some past Yankees as well.
Most sports have a disaster draft provision.

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So if an asteroid hit Yankee Stadium during an oldtimers game prior to a Sox-Yanks contest the end result would be that the Sox and Yanks get to select some players off the Orioles' roster to help restock their franchises? Well... that would suck. I know the disaster thing has been in place a long time, but my solution would have been to just promote the entire minor league system up a level.

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So if an asteroid hit Yankee Stadium during an oldtimers game prior to a Sox-Yanks contest the end result would be that the Sox and Yanks get to select some players off the Orioles' roster to help restock their franchises? Well... that would suck. I know the disaster thing has been in place a long time, but my solution would have been to just promote the entire minor league system up a level.

That would suck for sure.

If you promote everybody up, then you have an entire team of 25 AAA playing and why brother, it would be a blood bath.

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I'm a Redskins fan. Years ago the Cowboys signed Joey Galloway. He was awesome before they signed him, but then tore his ACL. I was happy. Really happy. Then Michael Westbrook got injured. Then the whole franchise became a Dan Snyder/Vinny Cerrato led douchy, jerk, disrespectful, vain and greedy dumpster fire.

I'm convinced* it's all because I was happy that Joey Galloway got hurt. I'll never be happy about another team's injury again.

* not really, but the final point is right

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