MLB All-Star Game...

[Dossenator]

Anyone watching the game tomorrow? I am pretty excited that former Arkansas Razorback pitcher Cliff Lee, who currently pitches for the Cleveland Indians, will be the starting pitcher for the American League team. He is having an outstanding year....12-2 if I am not mistaken with an ERA around 2.00.

I do not like that the winning league gets home feild for the world series. The team with the best record should get home field...you should have to earn it. Why should players who all ready know their teams have no shot at the post season help determine the fate of who gets home field. I understand they are trying to get interest back to the all-star game....but I still don't agree with it. What do you guys think?

[Spence]

I love baseball. I played the game for the better part of my life. My Dad played for almost 3/4's of his life. It has always had a place in my family. I just can't really bring myself to follow the pro version anymore. There are too many teams, too many players. The sport is so watered down guys who pitch to a 4.40 Era are considered great. Players take drugs to enhance their performance to break legitimate records of those who came before them. Professional baseball used to have character. It used to have characters. Now it has a bunch of players that could care less about the game that they had to have once loved. Guy's like Willie Mays got paid, but didn't play for money. Guys like Ruth, Aaron, Young, and Ryan didn't take drugs to achieve numbers. Baseball has always had it's share of unsavory characters, but save some guys who threw a World Series in 1919, it has never had a group of guys that care less about the children's game they had the privilege of playing then right now. Most of the owners are just as bad. I just can't bring myself to care about their business anymore. I would rather spend all day at a knothole tournament then watch one professional baseball game.

[donovan]

I certainly do not disagree with Spence...not sure it is applicable only to baseball...think all professional sports have the same issue...as a matter of fact..most industry has the same issue. Having said that, I do like baseball and go to a lot of games...high school and college. Baseball on TV is the sport that can not be covered well. It is always just the pitcher and catcher. Baseball needs to be watch seeing the whole field..the dugout..the base coaches, the position shifts....TV does not do that...

I did watch the All Star game....I would not say, other than the score and the length...is was all that "all star".

[Spence]

I certainly do not disagree with Spence...not sure it is applicable only to baseball...think all professional sports have the same issue...as a matter of fact..most industry has the same issue. Having said that, I do like baseball and go to a lot of games...high school and college. Baseball on TV is the sport that can not be covered well. It is always just the pitcher and catcher. Baseball needs to be watch seeing the whole field..the dugout..the base coaches, the position shifts....TV does not do that...

I did watch the All Star game....I would not say, other than the score and the length...is was all that "all star".

I agree. It isn't just professional baseball. I just have a special place for baseball and they let me down. I haven't been to a game since 1991, before that I went to most all of them. I still go to some college games and lots and lots of high school, Knot hole, and legion games. I still work with some of the kids, just not as hands on as in the past because I don't have the time.

[billybud]

Glad to see JD Drew make All Star MVP..and hit one out of the yard. I watched both him and his little brother at FSU.

I played baseball in HS, softball as an adult...but I really don't watch MLB games. I can't seem to get too interested. Sometimes, just for old times sake, I do watch the Yankees.

I watch FSU play. My son is a football guy through and through. I take him to a few FSU games every year (he goes to be good son, LOL) and he is fidgeting by the end of the fourth...like many of the MTV generation, he wants action and isn't much impressed with the subtleties of baseball.

[Eric]

I thought it was an exciting game and while I don't usually care much for all-star games, the competitiveness was fun to see. I'm a fan of the MLB, but I do lose interest once football starts. I mean, I hardly watch any baseball during September and I didn't catch a whole lot of the playoffs. Too much college football stuff going on