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From: barry@ihuxt.UUCP (R. G. Barry)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: All Star Games
Message-ID: <601@ihuxt.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 16:58:38 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 21 16:58:38 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 20:35:05 EDT
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The all-star game as it is is stupid and shouldn't be played anyway.
Who really cares?  The players certainly don't care if they win or lose
even though they might say they do.  It's just
a big ego thing to be selected.
A true all-star game contest should be played at the end of the
season after a player has proven that he can perform over 162
games.  Then it should be a best of 7 or 11 series 
where starting pitchers can go more than 3 innings.
One game in the middle of the year doesn't prove anything.