Another reason they may have gotten it (similar to the Mets getting this year's): long wait since their last one - they last hosted it in 1988, and Great American Bandbox hasn't hosted it yet (the 1988 one was at Riverfront/Cinergy)....all the same, still a bit surprising given all the Pete Rose discussion/campaigning it's going to re-open, a topic which many of the Lords of Baseball seem to want to avoid (not that I'm advocating it - I'm not - but maybe Selig is going to amnesty him before the match?).