MLB is still searching for solutions to a problem that doesn't exist by tinkering with the All-Star Game.
Wow! Awesome! It's almost perfect guys, don't give up!! Well, except
for the fact that nobody fucking gives two shits about it, and the idea
that the winner determines the home field advantage in the World Series
is beyond asinine. The only people who care about this game are Bud
Selig and the company that prints up all the fucking ballots.
Quit trying to make the All-Star game "mean something," and just get
fucking rid of it. Have three days of those sausage races, that would be
less destructive to the game. - XMASTIME
That is, of course, fucking insane - teams play 162 games over 6 months
so that if they make it to the most important games of their lives,
they're controlled by a fucking mid-season exhibition game in which the
players who are chosen by the fans hope to get out of the game as soon
as possible so they can clown around? Or leave? What the fuck. You
may win 83 games, to my 110, but if in a pretend game 4 months ago
someone on your All-Star game hit the gw-rbi against some shitty
relieveer who was only there because every team has to be repesented and
then everybody is supposed to play? Fucking absurd. Oh, and the
pitcher who leads the majors in wins isn't even playing this year,
therein crippling my team that much more? - XMASTIME
Everyone’s making a big deal of Wainwright possibly grooving one in for Jeter in the All-Star game. Which is, as always, the least inane part of the whole thing. The idea that Wainright grooved one in for Jeter during a should-be meaningless exhibition game isn’t inane; the idea that the single most important games of the season and October are affected by it in a huge way is inane. Just like Ripken’s good-bye dinger years ago, these moments are exactly what these games are fucking for. Fans paying tribute to players who have had such a huge impact on the game and saying goodbye, or the country being introduced to the next generaton. That’s it. Fucking hell.
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