No matter how tonight’s all-star game comes out, you are all, but in the coming days, some reading is guaranteed how bad it was.
But I am here to tell you this, a few hours before the first pitch, that it’s fine.
This is not to say that the all-star game is perfect. Actually, like sports, there are flaws of flaws. The selection process for a game in which 80 players have been selected and no one is named Juan Soto, is definitely a mess.
The all-star game is also never going to win the fight what it used to be and what is now. It is good to win, but as many players get as much as possible in the game. Twenty -nine players saw the ground last year, which was above 45 in 1984.
The League Pride was disappearing long before the Bud Celling finished the American and the National League offices. Neither Aaron Boon nor Dave Roberts are going to hold a meeting to underline the nature of the competition this afternoon. Nor, as 16 players who exited the all-star game proved, is anyone going to contact with a peat rose intensity tonight.
Daily inter-class play and the ability to watch any game at any time has also removed the secret and conspiracy of the all-star game. Aliens could enter the backyard of my parents in the connecticut during an all-star game and I could not get as much as I was watching the players representing the players, Rengers or veterans. Phil Bradley, Gary Ward and Atli Hamkers are actually beyond their baseball card!
Everyone said, compared to wrong with all-star game is much more correct-when compared to other sports, any of which does not provide anything similar to a traditional competitive game during its all-star showcase.
The NBA All-Star Roster was selected from 2018 to 2024 to seven times a fantasy-like draft, a span in which the league also introduced the alum ending to determine a winner, before the NBA replaced the All-Star weekend in a confused tournament this February.
Since 1998, there have been other sessions in which NHL did not play an all-star game due to the conflict with the Olympics, lockout or epidemic (six), in which he played a traditional former vs. West game (five). The 2026 All-Star game was canceled, after the upheaval success of 4 nations, face-offs forced NHL to rethink a lot of ideas of the all-star game.
With NFL Pro Bowl, Opt-Out and Crime, an alternating between traditional AFC vs. NFC roster and a fantasy draft format from 2013 to a combination of earlier-skills competitions and a flag football game in three years. It is as bad as it seems.
But tonight, you will see a real baseball game-the roster and nine-man lineup selected in a traditional format were written by managers, who possibly had more freedom to determine the batting order, as they were on returning to regular-se-regular action on Friday.
This will be nine-on-nine clash in which the rules will be originally unchanged. The introduction of ABS (automated ball-stroke challenge system) this year and the possibility of a home run darby which determines a winner in the additional innings has been canceled by some wretched, specially designed American League/National League duds instead of welcome return to players wearing their regular-season uniforms. (Which is an ackisse by Major League baseball that no one was buying those demons.)
Also welcomed: a really competitive competition. While AL has maintained dominance in the game by winning 10 of the last 11 competitions, only one of those games was decided to over three runs. Teams have combined 15 out of 15 of the last 18 matches for eight runs or less, in which fans have been rewarded who appreciate the couple of old school pitchers (although about two dozen hurler).
And the ratings are still fine, especially in this fragmented streaming world. While the audience of the previous year’s audience was reduced to more than half of the audience from the audience, it was still many more eyeballs than any other all-star game and still had the number 1 prime-time broadcast of the week.
If you still don’t like what you see, there is no fear, because there is a good chance that we are looking at the final years of the all-star game in our current form. The 2026 season is likely to follow the lockout that the lockout may take with one or two all-star games and leaves the king of bad ideas Rob Manfred, who is looking for a way for tinker with the midsmor classic to win the game to win.
Roster determined through a fantasy draft? An international format a la world baseball classic? Are foul balls out an automatic out with two strikes? A five-inning softball game in which a different streamer bears each innings? (Fox’s broadcast deal goes on after 2028.) Anything possible, meaning that you should enjoy these nights – incomplete but far better than the option – when you can.