Monday, July 13, 2009

Why I Hate the All-Star Break by Dan

And so it begins. The lamest, most soporific time of the summer sports schedule, the All-Star break. It was boring enough when it was a simple, inane show case for the big names of baseball to parade around for a night. Then came that faithful tie a few years ago that worked everyone up into a lather. For some reason, this actually angered people.

How dare you allow this completely meaningless game end in a tie! We must have a winner. Don't you know how much is a stake? Wait... there's nothing at stake? Well there ought to be!

Whereas before I didn't watch the game simply out of disinterest, now I don't watch out of spite. Dustin Pedroia is missing the game due to the impending birth of his first child. The rest of the Sox All-Stars should be so lucky. I just hope no one gets hurt. Worse than the NFL's ProBowl, which happens at the end of the season, the MLB All-Star game happens in the middle of the year when one key injury can knock your team out of the pennant race.

The only thing I do like about the All-Star Break this year is that it allows me a couple of extra days to revel in the evaporation of the Yanks first place tie with the Sox. The sky was falling last week when the Yankees managed to get into a first place tie with Sox in spite of an 0-8 record head to head. Over the weekend the Sox took it to the Royals and the Yanks couldn't vanquish their old nemesis the Angels. Life is good...for now.

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