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NEW YORK -- The league that wins Major League Baseballs All-Star Game no longer will get home-field advantage in the World Series, which instead will go to the pennant winner with the better regular-season record.The change was included in MLBs tentative new collective bargaining agreement and disclosed early Thursday to The Associated Press by a person familiar with the agreement. The person spoke on condition of anonymity, because details of the deal -- reached Wednesday evening in Irving, Texas -- had not been announced.In addition, players and management agreed that the minimum stay on the disabled list will be reduced from 15 days to 10.This years World Series punctuated the All-Star Game policys effect when Game 7 was played in Cleveland instead of at Wrigley Field, after the Cubs finished the regular season with 103 wins, as compared to the Indians 94. The Cubs still won, ending their 108-year championship drought.Home-field advantage in the World Series generally rotated between the leagues through 2002. MLB, led by then-commissioner Bud Selig, and Fox television promoted the This Time It Counts innovation after the 2002 All-Star Game in Milwaukee ended in a 7-7, 11-inning tie when both teams ran out of pitchers. Selig was booed in his own Milwaukee backyard.This energizes it. This gives them something to really play for, Selig said after owners approved the All-Star Game policy change by a 30-0 vote in January 2003. People pay a lot of money to see that game. They deserve to see the same intensity they see all year long. Television people pay a lot of money for the game. It was not and should not be a meaningless exhibition game.What began as a two-year experiment was extended. The American League won 11 of 14 All-Star Games played under the rule, and the AL representative won eight World Series in those years.It will put back a little of the sizzle, San Francisco Giants executive Larry Baer said in 2003.Now, as part of the changes for next year, players in the All-Star Game will have the incentive to play for a pool of money.Meanwhile, the DL change will allow teams to make quicker decisions on whether to bring up a roster replacement rather than wait to see if the injured player would be ready to return to action in less than two weeks.An international play plan is part of the new agreement that includes a payment schedule for potential games in Asia, Mexico, Latin America and Britain, in addition to U.S.-based special events, such as this years July 3 game between Atlanta and Miami in a specially built ballpark on a military base in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Cheap Salomon Shoes China . 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GLASGOW -- No one -- not even the surging, soaring, free-swinging Juan Martin del Potro -- beats Andy Murray twice in Scotland within 24 hours.Del Potro has accomplished much during his comeback year, but establishing absolute primacy in the city of Murrays birth was beyond him.Just a day after his gargantuan singles victory over Murray at this Davis Cup semifinal -- which the Argentine had taken in five sets and five hours, in the longest match each of them had ever played -- they came together again for the doubles rubber.Del Potros victory Friday had been spoken of as his revenge after last months Olympic singles final, which had gone the other way, and this time, with his brother Jamie alongside him, it was Murrays turn to be the avenger with a victory that kept Britain, who had trailed 0-2 overnight, in the tie.By comparison with their singles match, this was quite brief, with the Murrays defeating Del Potro and Leonardo Mayer 6-1, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 inside three hours to maintain their record of never having lost a Davis Cup rubber together. Were back in the tie, said Jamie, with this doubles match coming just a day after the funeral of their paternal grandfather, Gordon Murray.Only twice before have Britain come from 0-2 to win a tie -- against Germany in 1930 and against Russia in 2013. But this is a team that has already accomplished the supposedly impossible by winning the entire competition last season, the nations first triumph since 1936.Murray will be expected to win the first of Sundays reverse singles rubbers, when he is scheduled to face Guido Pella, so this tie will probably be decided in the fifth rubber when either Dan Evans or Kyle Edmund will encounter Del Potro.Hadnt Del Potro spoken Friday evening of having cramps everywhere? So there was much astonishment when -- an hour before the doubles rubbers began -- Argentina disclosed they had tinkered with the original nominations they had put forward at Thursdays draw ceremony, with Del Potro to feature instead of Federico Delbonis.At first glance, this appeared to be a very big call by the Argentine captain, Daniel Orsanic -- bold bordering on eccentric -- but in all probability it wouldnt have bbeen his decision, but Del Potros.dddddddddddd Once Del Potro had decided he wanted to play doubles, who on earth was going to block him from taking to this indoor hard court?But wouldnt it have made more sense for Del Potro to have rested on Saturday in readiness for Sunday? True, Andy Murray was also fatigued after Fridays exertions -- and there had been some doubt about whether he would participate -- but there was a logic to the Wimbledon and Olympic champion playing doubles. Quite simply, it was a rubber that Britain had to win to stay in the tie.Watching the Murray brothers together on the doubles court, theres some doubt as to which of them should be considered the senior player. While Andy is undeniably the more talented, and certainly the more celebrated after his accomplishments in singles, this is the form of the game which Jamie specialises in.There are few better than Jamie at playing doubles -- earlier this year he became the first British man to hold the world No. 1 ranking, whether in singles or doubles, though he has since lost that status and is currently fourth.Jamies new elite status has come through his partnership with Brazilian Bruno Soares, which was new this year -- they had immediate success at the Australian Open, where Jamie won his first mens doubles Grand Slam title. Just over a week ago, Jamie and Soares scored another major at the US Open. Perhaps neither of the Murrays is the senior player, with the doubles court the only place where they are truly equals.After Andy and Del Potros long-running singles match, the opening set of this doubles match was remarkably brief, lasting a mere 26 minutes. But anyone with any previous exposure to Britains Davis Cup ties must have realised this couldnt possibly continue in such a one-sided, straightforward manner, and the South Americans took the second set and were well-placed to snaffle the third, too, after breaking for a 4-3 lead.But the Murray brothers raised their level, breaking once for parity and then once more for the set. The fourth set was theirs, too. ' ' '