2.09.2005

2007 MLB All-Star Game in San Francisco
Major League Baseball will announce that the All-Star Game will be in San Francisco in 2007. MLB will ditch their alternative leagues policy that has been decorum for quite some time in favor of rewarding many of the new stadiums with the Mid-Summer Classic. While MLB has seen a new stadium explosion since the mid 1990s, the National League has opened most of the new yards.

The obvious response to this announcement is that it will skew the advantage of the high stakes exhibition known as the All-Star Game. While homefield doesn't mean quite as much as it does in football or basketball, there still is an advantage. I'm guessing that MLB will make the American League the "home" team, similar to when Florida played as the "home" team in Comiskey Park errrrr U.S. Cellular Field last year.

The MLB All-Star game is the most presentable of all the major sports, but the more they keep messing with it the more of a farce it is becoming. I'm still waiting for the "North America vs. The World" scenario that was all the rage in the late 90's. That's what America needs...More situations where we are attempting to asses our dominance over the rest of the world.

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