The Major League Baseball All-Star Game is this week in Minneapolis. It's a big event, in close proximity, and it would be cool to see in person. So why am I not even fired up to watch it at all?
Because Major League Baseball continues to be a flawed sport.
The last time Minneapolis hosted the MLB All-Star Game it, I was there, in the old Metrodome. It was wall-to-wall future Hall-of-Famers: George Brett, Carlton Fisk, Cal Ripken, Wade Boggs, Don Mattingly (that's just the American League), Ozzie Smith, Dave Parker, Ryne Sandberg, Nolan Ryan, and Pete Rose. (I know, Rose isn't in the HoF because of gambling, but we all know he should be.) This is a short list -- there were others.
Nearly 30 years later, there aren't more than a couple of cinch HoFers in the game, maybe only one (Derek Jeter). It's been diluted by too many teams with too many players making too much money on too few contending teams.
About five years ago, I wrote about reasons why Major League Baseball sucks. A couple of these have been partially cleaned up (replay and PEDs), but in the end, nothing has changed enough for me to spend a lot of time watching it.
Not even the All-Star Game.
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