All Star Game

[BruisedCrew]

The site won’t accept my email and password on the multi site thread, so I’ll post this here. 

Every year the All Star Game brings back memories for me of when the All Star Game was one of the sports highlights of the year. Back in the days when the Braves didn’t televise games and the national Game of the Week was blacked  out in all MLB cities the All Star Game and World Series were the only televised games we could see. So it was a thrill to see the stars of the game, including the AL stars who never played in Milwaukee. And stars like Willie Mays and Stan Musial would play the whole game and the starting pitchers would go 3 innings. It was a real baseball game with star players trying win. 
 

Over the years the game lost its luster to the point that it’s gotten to today. Top stars opting out or maybe making a token appearance while teams try to squeeze every player on the roster into the game  And hitting is very rare with a succession of star pitchers shutting down opposing batters.

To top it off, if you root for the Brewers league you almost always come away a loser. I’d have to count it up, but in their 56 years of existence the Brewers league has won something like 12 times. They switched from the AL to the NL just as the balance of power in All Star Games flipped. I’d like to think that’s just bad luck and coincidence.

I’ll probably have the game on tonight but won’t be glued to it