Your Favorite Sport’s All-Star Game Sucks
Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Maybe it’s time to think about a career change?
I just got back from vacation, so this week’s newsletter is shorter than usual. We’ll be back next week with your regularly scheduled programming.
Locker Room Links
- “The state of Ohio intends to steal over a billion dollars in private property from its citizens and pour it into the pockets of [Cleveland Browns owner] Jimmy Haslam.”
- Cheerleading is becoming a full-fledged NCAA sport (technically as “acrobatics & tumbling” and “stunt”).
- The major players unions don’t want college sports to get an antitrust exemption.
- If the NCAA expands March Madness again, my eyes might bounce out of my head.
- President Donald Trump joined Chelsea players onstage for the Club World Cup trophy lift.
- Elsewhere in Reason: “There’s Probably No ‘Smoking Gun’ in the JFK or Epstein Cases. We Should Be Allowed To Look Anyway.“
- The umpires still counted this as a home run because apparently nothing matters at the Home Run Derby. (Congratulations to Cal Raleigh, who won anyway and is having an absolutely insane season.)
KIDS ARE ROBBING HOME RUNS IN THE DERBYpic.twitter.com/bcdQ8tbGAh
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) July 15, 2025
All the Stars, None of the Stakes
Your favorite sport’s All-Star Game sucks—because they all suck. But because the MLB All-Star Game is Tuesday night, we’ll start there.
Perhaps I’m falling victim to nostalgia here (as baseball fans often do!) but the MLB All-Star Game used to mean something, because the distinction between National League and American League used to mean something.
The two leagues had slightly different rules, with one having a designated hitter and one not, which affected the game in more strategic ways than one spot in the lineup. Interleague play was rare, but the rarity also made it a treat. Because the leagues felt so different, the All-Star Game felt like a clash of civilizations—fans could watch with fervor because the American League way of life was better than the National League way of life and dang it, the boys needed to prove that on the fi
Article from Reason.com
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