When you look at the NBA All-Star game, the NFL Pro Bowl, and the Major League Baseball All-Star game, it is the MLB All-Star game only that actually means something. Homefield advantage in the World Series is at stake. You want your league to be represented by the best players. So why, oh why, do we have to represent every Major League Baseball team?
MLB needs to do what the NFL does and that is pick the best players and screw trying to represent each team. With all due respect to Jason Castro, who appears to be a solid player for the Astros, he's not an All-Star. The Astros, Padres, and Cubs (sorry Travis Wood fans) shouldn't have any All-Stars.
Bryce Harper is one of the bright young stars in the game. Braves fans hate him but they know he's a special player. But Bryce has missed 30 plus games due to injury and simply doesn't have All-Star numbers for the 2013 season. Troy Tulowitzki was injured for 20 something games but still had the numbers to back up his selection to the mid-summer classic.
Let me know.....do you agree or disagree with my All-Star beefs? Or do you have other problems with the All-Star game?
Agree on every team should not be represented. It is an embarrasment for those players to be at the all-star game while a more deserving player sits home. Back in the old days it made sense for each team to be represented but not anymore. The host city should always be represented but no other franchise should be guaranteed a spot in the all-star game.
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