If there was any question that this is the era of the pitcher, last night’s MLB All-Star game gave us no fewer than 28 indications why. (That would be 14 strikeouts a piece among those hitting “stars.”) The smart guys tell us that a strikeout is just another out, and culturalists note that the K is no longer taboo. Well, it was in great display last night. It’s amusing to see titans go down, I suppose, especially after the offensive show put on the previous night by Judge, Sanchez, Stanton, and company in the Home Run Derby. Baseball really brought it these past two nights, as it often does every time it seems the NFL and NBA are about to put the thing to rest forever.

Baseball made only one mistake last night, the same one they made last year. Let me offer a solution right now:

For the love of hockey and bacon let me do the Canadian National Anthem next year.