So last night was the Major League Baseball All Star Game. Every where you read about it or heard about it was followed with the tagline, "This Time It Counts." Of course, that is referring to the fact that the winning team will give their league champion home field advantage in the World Series. Here are a couple reasons that I have a problem with this.
Fan Voting- How are you going to leave something like that in the hands of the fans? There were a few people in the All Star game that were voted in that should not have been. Jason Varitek was voted in and his number are as follows: .218 BA, 7 HR, 28 RBI. These are far from All Star numbers… They are even less than average! He is one more bad run away from being at the Mendoza Line! This is not someone who should be in a game of this magnitude. There are certain teams that are always going to get more love from the voters than others. How can a deserving player from Kansas City, Cincinnati or Minnesota compete with players from New York, Chicago or Boston?
Everyone Represented- No! This doesn’t make sense. A game that will chose the location of the first two games of the World Series should not be up to a game that will have a single player from a last place team in it. It should be only the best players, not the best players and the best player from Team X because they have no one in the game.
Roster Problems- Certain pitchers were only allowed certain amounts of work based on what they had done and games that were coming up. Webb, Dempster, Marmol, Kazmir were only allowed to pitch one inning while Baltimore closer George Sherrill was asked to pitch 2.1 innings.
Here is my proposal. I do think the fans should vote. I do think every team should be represented. It just should not chose the World Series. If you want a creative way to get the location figured out. Go by the league with the better interleague record. That actually means something.
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