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These days, I honestly don\u2019t give two shits about the MLB All-Star Game.\u00a0 You\u2019d think that a baseball fan like myself would enjoy seeing \u201cthe best\u201d players in baseball, playing in a single exhibition game, where fans get a chance to see some dream matchups between star pitchers versus star hitters.<\/span><\/p>\n That would be great when such a thing happens, and I\u2019d really like someone to let me know when and if it ever does.<\/span><\/p>\n The All-Star Game is a pretty well-known mockery to professional sport these days, since it\u2019s now become the furthest thing from a relaxed exhibition game for the fans.\u00a0 With a set of rules and guidelines, most importantly the aspect being that it \u201cactually counts\u201d in respect to the winning league getting home-field advantage in the World Series, it\u2019s gone from a fun and leisurely baseball game into a tense, controversial event that always spawns the same arguments every single year.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fans get to vote on the starting players.\u00a0 Every single MLB team must be represented by at least one player even if it means that another very worth deserving player gets left off the roster.\u00a0 The prior seasons\u2019 World Series managers manage the games.\u00a0 It\u2019s just this train wreck of stupid, and hasn\u2019t been fun in quite some time.<\/span><\/p>\n Honestly, the only good thing about the All-Star Game this year is that it coincides with Comic-Con, so I\u2019m not really going to miss any meaningful baseball in that stretch where I\u2019ll be in San Diego.<\/span><\/p>\n But all that disdain aside, I have to say that every once in a blue moon, the people get it right.\u00a0 I\u2019m not just happy that Freddie Freeman made the National League\u2019s final All-Star roster spot,\u00a0just<\/em>\u00a0because he\u2019s a Brave, I\u2019m not just happy that Freddie Freeman made the National League\u2019s final All-Star roster spot because he was the right guy to make it, I\u2019m most happy that Freddie Freeman made the National League\u2019s final All-Star roster spot because he was the guy that the media\u00a0didn\u2019t<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0want to make it.<\/span><\/p>\n Led by the talking heads at that biased compromised four lettered NFL Network outlet, the push and urging to the fans for the Los Angeles Dodgers\u2019 rookie sensation Yasiel Puig to make the team was immeasurable.\u00a0 Short of simply saying Freddie Freeman was a piece of shit that killed puppies and accompanied Aaron Hernandez on his kill spree and hid evidence in the George Zimmerman trial and sparked violence in Egypt, countless media outlets lobbied, pushed and encouraged fans to go out and vote for Yasiel Puig over Freddie Freeman in the final spot voting.<\/span><\/p>\n When that didn\u2019t seem to push things in Puig\u2019s favor, most of these outlets when to smearing Freeman\u2019s credibility to try and lobby to the analytical.\u00a0 Actual front page stories questioning the intelligence of fans began popping up to why they were voting for Freeman instead of Puig.\u00a0 Editorials, mostly based out of Los Angeles by not-so-hidden Dodger supporters began sprouting like fungus about how much greater Puig is than Freeman.<\/span><\/p>\n But when you push people so much for so long, eventually something\u2019s going to give.\u00a0 When the final votes were tallied, Freddie Freeman beat out Yasiel Puig by somewhere around 4 million votes, with over 19 million votes.\u00a0\u00a0 Steve Delabar, the American League final spot winner, didn\u2019t even eclipse 10 million votes overall.<\/span><\/p>\n We live in a society where a lot of people simply don\u2019t like being told what to do these days.\u00a0 I know this because I most definitely fall into such a category.\u00a0 In an ironic twist, it\u2019s almost as if the entire popular mainstream sports media kind of shot themselves in the foot by essentially telling people to go out and vote for Puig, because it just made people want to vote for the guy they\u2019re being to not vote for \u2013 Freddie Freeman.\u00a0 The Braves have a ton of fans throughout the country due to decades of nationally televised Braves games via TBS, but garnering 19 million votes in about a week definitely means that not only did Freeman get his share of votes from Braves fans, but from a lot of people who simply don\u2019t like being told what to do.<\/span><\/p>\n Regardless, score one for the good guys.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty deplorable what the mainstream media was attempting to do, so fuck them for doing it.\u00a0 This wasn\u2019t just an achievement for Freddie Freeman, it was a victory of the people over the corrupted ideals of the mainstream media.<\/span><\/p>\n Ironically, the way All-Star Games are played these days might make me want to tune in a little bit this year.\u00a0 Usually the voted starters are all out by the 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0or 4th<\/sup>\u00a0inning of the game, and managers begin utilizing all their bench players, who often times get more playing time than the starters do.\u00a0 That being said, there are two other first basemen on the roster to share time with, but there\u2019s still a good chance that Freeman will get into the game as more than just a pinch hitter.<\/span><\/p>\n Not that it really matters, but it would sure look nice to see the All-Star Game end with Craig Kimbrel striking out the American League, with Freddie Freeman standing at first base.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These days, I honestly don\u2019t give two shits about the MLB All-Star Game.\u00a0 You\u2019d think that a baseball fan like myself would enjoy seeing \u201cthe best\u201d players in baseball, playing in a single exhibition game, where fans get a chance to see some dream matchups between star pitchers versus star hitters. 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