Baseball

I fell in the love with the All-Start Game about 25 years ago when Ted Williams made one of his final appearances. He asked the players if they sometimes smelled smoke when they hit a ball hard, and many responded that they did, but hardly made much of it. I thought it was magical that something so subtle could bridge generations of ballplayers and link someone as great and legendary as Williams to the modern players. THAT is baseball.

Since then, the telecast has become a bloated. over-produced shit show. Do we really need to have conservations with position players during the game? Stand up to cancer? Sure, but not a five-minute stoppage of play. Nor a lengthy tribute to Aaron. That's pregame stuff, please.

And now this home run swing off horseshit. Totally negates a great comeback and Kwan's awesome infield RBI that tied the game.

Typical corporate thinking. Dumb-down politics, dumb-down baseball. I wasted four hours of my life.