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Originally Posted by seth70liz76
Just a thought on the AS Game. It has--thanks to ESPN, MLB.com, Directv, interleague play, et al--become a worthless relic. But at the time of your replay, it was one of the few ways to see stars from the other league. The explosion of coverage in the 80's and 90's has rendered it useless (to everyone but Allan Selig). A more logical demise of the AS game would be to kill it in the early 90's (with the ESPN contract) or at the advent of interleague play. It was an "important" date in the baseball calendar for at least 50 years, and is still the best "all-star" game in the big 4, err, big 3 sports--but the bar isn't that high anyway.
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Yeah, I've been trying to come up with an excuse to kill it off earlier. Another thing that has helped kill it is free agency. Players change teams so much now that it's rare for a guy to stay in one league for his whole career.