The All-Star Game Reward - Are You Kidding?

It's the end of the season and the Big Bad Swizzers have won their league's baseball championship. The Swizzers won seventy percent of their games and they're ready to play the Merciless Wonders in the World Series of Baseball-who won only fifty-one percent of their games.

So who deserves the home field advantage?

The Swizzers!

Well, they are not going to get it because wining your league's championship has nothing to do with who gets the home field advantage in the World Series. No, that goes to the team who wins the All-Star Game which hosted only one player from your team. Yes, the losers in your league determined your destiny and you will probably lose the World Series because of the All-Star Game-not from your credentials as a winning team.

I don't know who came up with this stupid idea. It was probably to add some significance to the All-Star Game that seemed to be lacking significance. Well, the All-Star game does not need significance added onto significance.

The reasonable and fare method to determine the home field advantage is to simply switch it from league to league each year. I guess that would be too complicate for the air head who suggested this scheme. At the minimum, they could flip a coin. On the other hand, I think it should be given to the best team as indicated by their season record.

How this method of swindling a league-by lowering its chances to win-ever got approved is beyond me. Some teams evidently agreed to it but thought that it was not right. Well, I say: Make it right!

That was one heck of an All-Star Game last night, wasn't it? It went down to the wire. It wasn't flawless, it was baseball at its best. It was 11:45 here in Idaho when it ended. Those folks in the east were up very late, some probably not getting home until the wee hours of the morning.

I can baseball wait until next year.

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