Beginning in 2003, the owners and players agreed to award home field advantage to the pennant winning team from league that is victorious in the midsummer classic. 

Quite frankly, I think this was a ludicrous decision.

Why would major league baseball not have this be an earned distinction throughout the course of a 162-game season?  Baseball has by far the highest number of contests in its tradition season.  At the end of such a long season, I would expect to be rewarded with some advantage if my team had a better record than my opponent.

But tying this back into an All-Star game makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.  You have players from all teams…some of which are already well out of the pennant race.  These players (albeit they are All-Stars) could be deciding the outcome of the World Series – only I am sure that they don’t treat it with that much seriousness.

I mean after all…it’s just an All-Star game.