ALL-STARS...REALLY?

ALL-STARS...REALLY?

This is hypocrisy week and I have found the biggest lie in all of Major League Baseball to start the week off with. What hypocrisy does baseball have you ask? The lie that they are going to send the best players in the game to Anaheim.

I love the Mid Summer Classic that is known as the Major League Baseball All - Star Game. The best of the best playing the game that we all love. I remember as a kid gathering all of my neighborhood friends and watching the home-run derby on Monday night. We would then go out to the back yard and attempt to out do the stars from the night before. Tuesday was like Christmas night for us, our favorite players in match ups that you would only dream of. Greg Maddux v. Ken Griffey Jr. Roger Clemens v. Barry Bonds. These were once a year match ups because most of your great players would not make it to the World Series. Bud Selig then got the brilliant idea to give home field advantage in the World Series to the league that won the all - star game, so the game "would mean something to the players".

I have a couple of complaints about the All-Star game. I realize that players want a break and that much I can understand. Who am I to tell someone that they owe it to me as a fan to play in this game. HOWEVER, as a fan, BUD SELIG YOU OWE IT TO ME TO BE HONEST. If a player says I want to take the few days and sleep til 4 in the afternoon in my own bed, then I want to work on my tan while eating ice cream by the pool is ok to me. BE HONEST!!! Bud Selig will try to convince us that this game is all about the best of the best coming together for one magical night. Can anyone please tell me if you are buying the lie that John Buck, Ty Wigginton, Yadier Molina, Jason Heyward, Matt Capps, Arthur Rhodes, Marlon Byrd, or OMAR INFANTE are some of the best players in the game. HEY BUD, THE REASON YOUR SPORT IS DIEING IS BECAUSE THESE ARE YOUR STARS!!!

Let me help you baseball, THIS IS NOT LITTLE LEAGUE, EVERYONE DOES NOT GET TO PLAY!!! Please stop letting every team have a representative. I do not care if the Royals have someone on their team. News flash Bud...KANSAS CITY IS NOT WATCHING THE GAME REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT JOAKIM SORIA IS ON THE ROSTER. If you want this game to matter, stop making the managers take a player from every team.

Another solution for the game, TAKE REAL STARS!!! Why is BASEBALL'S BIGGEST STAR in 20 years going to be sitting at home? I DO NOT CARE ABOUT STATS!!! It is not called the impressive numbers game, it is not called an achievement game, it is called the All-Star game & I want stars. There is NO bigger star in baseball right now than Stephen Strasburg. He has some of the nastiest stuff we have seen in the last 20 years. Who would not love to see him face off with the starters from the A.L. team (great job fans picking the starters, i think you got every pick right). But instead we say he is 2 - 2, he has 6 starts. He is the most exciting thing baseball has going and somehow Charlie Manuel and Bud Selig managed to mess this up. But at least I will get to see Arthur Rhodes pitch against Ty Wigginton.

Baseball is what it is and I get that, just please stop lying to me about what this game has become, A JOKE!!!

RIP ALL-STAR GAME...

Until next time...