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While I understand the reasoning behind the endingof the game (you don't want to risk injuring the arm of a star pitcher in a game put on strictly for entertainment) my problem was the lack of an MVP and Selig just pulling out the troops and disappearing without even addressing the fans...I hate Bud Selig more than any other human alive..he has destroyed baseball...the two teams he just wanted to get rid of are in pennant contention, yet his own team, which sucks ass and contains only one player even worth watching (Sexson) still gets to ermain alive AND it got the texpayers to toss in a new stadium with "luxury skyboxes"
I don't give a fuck about the salaries..the best in the game should be paide the best...if the owners want to keep salaries under control, they should stop with the big contracts...take a star player and offer him a % of the gate...get creative...I don't like the idea of salary caps because that's like telling a business owner he can't raise his secretary's pay above a certain amount...
Interleague play has killed the thrill of the all-star game for me personally...
and as for this game being meaningless? tell that to the fans that paid $175+ per ticket to see their favorite players...the all-star game was created FOR THE FANS...and Bud Selig (multi-millionaire who still gets his hair cut at Supercuts) gives the fans the finger, not even so much as an explanation...they decide to name the All-Star MVP after Ted Williams and what do they do in the first year? Don't even have an MVP...just yank the players off the field and basically tell the fans to go home...
As a diehard baseball fan who has learned to live with abuse (the '94 strike) and other bullshit, I'm just getting a little tried of it...
sad to think games like basketball and football have overtaken baseball as America's favorite sport...fuck, even the piss boring game of soccer has risen in popularity....I guess some fans aren;t as diehard as me....please, don't make me have to watch basketball or soccer...
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