I’ve been asked many times this year whether having the MLB All-Star game in my “hometown” makes it any cooler or more interesting compared to other years.

Nope. I’m just gonna watch it on TV whether it’s 20 miles or 2,000 miles from my house. If my son were a little older maybe, but he’s not so it doesn’t matter. That he’s four and would rather play with sticks and dirt in the backyard than with some new age gizmos at “fan fest” probably saved me a few hundred dollars.

I will watch, with interest, tonight’s Home Run Derby, and of course the game tomorrow. I’ll have my son watch some of it too.

We don’t need to see it in person, but we do like the game.

After all, we are not Communists.