This is getting old

Another MLB All Star Game, another American League win. What is this, 13 years in a row now? It's pretty silly how the American League just continues to dominate this event. For the last 6 years, the American League victory in the All Star Game has granted them with home field advantage in the World Series. However, it really hasn't been an advantage as both the National and American League teams have won 3 World Series titles apiece in that span. I would assume that after a longer sampling, the team with home field advantage would end up winning the majority of the World Series titles, but we won't know for sure until it happens.

The fact that it even determines home field advantage, to begin with, is stupid. It's an exhibition game that features over 90% of the players who won't be participating in the World Series anyway, so why let them have any influence on it? The best way of doing it is by giving home field advantage to the team with the best record. Pretty fuckin simple. That's how they do it in the NBA and the NHL (obviously not the NFL because the Super Bowl is held at a predetermined and most likely "neutral" field). But you have Bud Selig trying to save face after that horrible debacle in 2002 when the All Star Game ended in a tie when both managers ran out of players. This isn't the way to do it.

With the current system, we have managers managing the game like it's a real game, saving players and pitchers for certain situations and so on and so forth. This means that a bunch of players do not get to play. I say we play the 9 inning game, have the score count for nothing, but make it mandatory that all of the players are featured in the game. There's nothing worse for a fan base than having a guy they vigorously voted for sitting on the bench for the entire game. What's the point? We could get into the whole "fans shouldn't determine who's an All Star" debate, but that has been beaten to death so many times that it doesn't need to be addressed.

To be honest, if the All Star Game is going to continue to determine home field advantage, then I want the National League to win every year. That way, when the Red Sox sweep the World Series, we'll be able to celebrate at Fenway hahaha.