Tonight is the night.  Another baseball season is halfway through and it is time to play the All-Star game.  A night that the kid in all of us gets to see all of the great baseball players of today.  We get to see young promising players such as Tim Lincecum of the Giants, his teammate Brian Wilson, Edinson Valquez from Cinci, Josh Hamilton of Texas, also on the team are some regular all-star players and future hall of Famers Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Alex Rodriguez from the Yankees (why aren’t they in 1st place???) and Chipper Jones from Atlanta.  Unfortunately this game does count for something and is no longer the exhibition game that it was meant to be.  Now the winning league of the All-Star game gets homefield advantage in the playoffs.  A rule that the players do not like.  I mean can you really blame them when you are only in the game for 3 innings at the most (if you are a starter), but that is what baseball has gone to.  Making the game that is supposed to be fun and a showcase of talent and a chance for the fans to see all the great players on the field in one night.  All this because a few years ago the game was called a draw because both teams had run out of pitchers and the game was tied.  I really wish Bud Selig and the Player’s Union would do somethign about this situation but I have a feeling that like the DH and inter-league play the game will continue to have “meaning” even though it was never supposed to have any ramifications on the regular or post season.

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