Major League All Star Game

The All Star game was once a time when pitchers and sluggers would get together one time a year other than the world series, and they would take hacks at each other for the first and only time of the year. That's when fans wanted to go to the game and see their favorite players battle each other and it was not about home field advantage or anything like that, it was simply a spectacle for the fan. Today, the All Star game has lost its luster. Interleague play which was started recently by commissioner Bud Selig has taken away the sting of the All Star game, he has taken away the fun of seeing your favorite players battle one time a year because now teams from both leagues are playing each other for 3-4 weeks out of the year and getting the Roy Halladay vs David Ortiz matchup happens during interleague, instead of only during the All Star Game.

This years version of the All Star game has 16 players that were voted in by the fans themselves, that will not be participating in the game. On top of that, it has become a little league game where everyone has to play. The Game now has Albert Pujols batting one time in the game and over 40 players getting into a 9 inning game. The fans vote in their favorite players to see them bat once, or not see their favorite players play at all such as this year. On top of that, Major League Baseball has the All Star game set up so that the winning league gets home field advantage in the World Series, yet the best players such as 16 of the best players this year, will not be playing for their league and it will become less of an All Star game won and deciding the World Series based on back up players. America loves baseball and at one point, America loved the All Star game, it was not for home field or anything special, it was just fans favorite players to battle it out one time a year. Baseball needs to fix the All Star game, once they do that, maybe baseball can get back to where they were in the early 2000's as America's pastime, not where they are now, behind football and the NBA.