“The All-Star Game has been a particularly thorny thought exercise because it is built on a 70-year-old template and 60-year-old assumptions.”
“Players want to be named to the team for financial and ego-based reasons, but have no compelling reason to care about the outcome, or even provide the appearance of interest.”
“So Silver, probably out of exasperation as much as anything else, has urged a new format to replace all the other new formats, and this one is no less silly than any of the others.”
“The challenge, where the All-Star Game is concerned, is that no one is fooled.”
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