The Major League All-Star Game Needs to Pick the Best Players

You’d think that this was already the case, but it isn’t, and it should be. With bloated rosters, defections, replacements at the last minute, mandatory representation of every team, starting pitchers opting out because of insufficient rest, and fan bias — it’s no wonder that interest and viewership has dwindled over the last 40-plus years. This podcast offers some needed reforms that would boost the competitiveness and relevance of the all-star game to the levels attained from 1933 to the 1980s. Since the late 1980s, the game has steadily devolved into a meaningless exhibition that garners the dwindling attention of fewer and fewer people. [email protected] www.byroncopley.com Music: “Field Grass,” by Sergei Pavkin