Baseball’s Home Run Derby and All-Star game suffer from the same pre-event downplaying that has casual and serious fans alike saying something along the lines of, oh, it doesn’t mean what it used to, it isn’t interesting anymore, “they’ve” ruined it, etc.

Yes, all of this is true, but what else is true? We’re all glued to our televisions Monday and Tuesday nights, aren’t we?

Thanks, Giancarlo Stanton (not an All-Star, by the way), for putting on a show Monday night in the Home Run Derby. Damn that guy can hit home runs. Unlil Monday I was thinking of him as the Hispanic Mark McGwire… nope, McGwire’s the white Giancarlo Stanton.

And last night’s game? It’s true what they say. Only in baseball does the All-Star game bare any resemblance to the game played during the season. Another fine one turned in by both clubs and quite a show put on by MLB. Who cares that there’s a million guys on the rosters and half the guys playing don’t even want to be there.

Thanks, again, baseball, for making summer that much better.