Worst All-Star Game Ever?

[+ Lucky]

The 2023 All-Star game provided viewers with a look at the worst uniforms ever to grace a baseball field. Then FOX ruined it further by featuring miked players prominently on the screen while the game was played. I wanted to see the game, not these gimmicks. I didn't make it to the 5th inning.

[Alpha714]

Agree. I liked to see each guy in his own uniform instead of looking at their sleeve to see from what team. The miked thing fails in what it needs to do more times than it works. 

[BuffaloKyle]

I was thinking the same thing last night! The uniforms were terrible, the announcers were horrible. And the overall game was boring too.

[samhexum]

I don't think I've watched the game since I was 10.  I thought it was a pointless exhibition then, and never changed my mind.

[BuffaloKyle]

6 hours ago, samhexum said:

I don't think I've watched the game since I was 10.  I thought it was a pointless exhibition then, and never changed my mind.

It used to decide home field advantage for the world series so wasn't always totally pointless but now it is.

[+ purplekow]

It had the feel of a Sunday afternoon beer softball league game.  Uniforms almost universally hid any sign of an athletic body underneath and all the glad-handing and frivolity of the players made it clear that this was an exhibition game that had out lived its usefulness.  It was once a rare opportunity to see Mickey Mantle and Sandy Koufax face one another.  Now with interleague play more common than ever, the sense of excitement over league loyalty no longer exists.  

The least they could do is have the players wearing tight shorts.   

[BSR]

On 7/12/2023 at 5:23 PM, BuffaloKyle said:

It used to decide home field advantage for the world series so wasn't always totally pointless but now it is.

I liked that it decided home field advantage, but apparently the players hated it.  That said, even when the ASG used to matter, I couldn't bring myself to watch it.

[+ WilliamM]

On 7/12/2023 at 2:05 PM, samhexum said:

I don't think I've watched the game since I was 10.  I thought it was a pointless exhibition then, and never changed my mind.

I love the all star  game

Not everyone watches  the other league  from where your favorite team plays 

I   For example I rarely watch a Boston Red Sox team  now that I live in Philadelphia (since 1970,).

 

 

[BuffaloKyle]

On 7/17/2023 at 4:57 PM, BSR said:

I liked that it decided home field advantage, but apparently the players hated it.  That said, even when the ASG used to matter, I couldn't bring myself to watch it.

There's no way that you could have it decide home field advantage now too with the extra wild card. If the #1 seed and #12 seed both made it to the world series and the #12 seed had home field advantage that'd be totally unfair. Plus it really made no sense when two teams met in the world series and no one on either team really had an impact on that years all star game anyway.

[+ WilliamM]

Respectfully  Willie  Mays played in may All Star Games, including the years when there were were Two All Star Games.  

So American League fans got to see Mr Mays play. I am a Natural League  Fan and was thrilled when I was on Mr Mays ',s side.