Sorry this is in late in coming, but I've been spending all day prepping for the ESPY awards. I know your excited.

Remember what I said about this season of baseball having that Arch-Duke Ferdinand going to Sarajevo feeling? Think the Arch-Duke just got shot.

After reading all the hoopla about it, all I have to say is crikey, that was a debacle. The only thing that would of made it an even bigger one is if they would have wheeled out the cyrogenically frozen body of Ted Williams (and I'm sure if MasterCard was willing to sponsor it, they would have). There is, however, some beauty to it all going down in Bud's All-Star game, the one he set up because he's the Commissioner and he's from there and he kind of owns it and his fellow Wisconsin tax-payers helped foot the bill for it. And he sucks. Still, it's gotta be bad when even the Commissioner of the MLS is going "geez, Thank God, I'm not that guy."

So, I'm sure you're all wondering what would I do to fix the Mid-Summer Classic-baseball loving, super-genius that I am. Easy, let the stars play and keep them in.

The NL starting outfield last night was Bonds, Sosa, and Guerrero- two definite Hall of Famers and somebody who could someday be right up there. That's who the fans want to see and you can't argue that they're not the best representatives. So, keep them in for at least five or six innings. That's what an All-Star game is about, seeing the stars and that's what we, the humble paying baseball fan wants to see in our (that's right, our) All-Star game. Who really wants to see a bunch of guys from the Marlins? I'm pretty sure even the people in Miami don't really care if they play or not.

If that doesn't work out, like say the Union is upset or the stars get all hissy about it (not that a baseball star would ever, ever get hissy about something), then keep all the guys from the lame teams til late in the game.

The big concern was the pitchers and not injuring them. Torre has a valid reason why he shouldn't overuse Garcia because the Mariners are a great team and in the middle of a Pennant Race. Overusing him could be bad for the Mariners. On the other hand, Jose Padilla is playing for the Phils. The Phils suck so what difference does it make if Padilla pitches till his arm drops.

Failing that, as I said before, penalty kicks.