Cancel the All-Star Game

Baseball's Midsummer Classic is a worthless relic. It's time to put it out of its misery.

Members of the 1942 All-Star team.
(Image credit: Illustrated | AP Photo)

If you're not super jazzed about tonight's MLB All-Star Game, you're not alone.

It's become clear that a great many fans and players don't particularly care about baseball's annual All-Star Game, an excruciatingly dull affair that deprives the sport's die-hards of their precious baseball oxygen for four seemingly endless July days for no apparent purpose. The Midsummer Classic has become the Midsummer Hassle.

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David Faris

David Faris is an associate professor of political science at Roosevelt University and the author of It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics. He is a frequent contributor to Informed Comment, and his work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and Indy Week.