The NFL recently has made changes to improve their product. Stricter conduct rules, flex scheduling to eliminate two 2-11 teams playing a nationally televised game, and numerous others. Yet, it baffles me they have not come around to fixing the disaster that is the Pro Bowl as of yet.
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Most of this comes from a comment I made when Sports Dawg wrote on An Opinion On Sports about expanding the All-Star rosters after Clint Hurdle and Terry Francona nearly had to use David Wright and J.D. Drew as pitchers due to a limited number of innings available from the All-Star pitchers.
Sports Dawg isn’t the only one to make the suggestion as I’ve heard a lot of people talk about expanding the rosters because “now the game counts.”
However, I have to respectfully disagree.
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As I flipped the channel to FOX at about 8:00 pm, I had no idea that tonight would be one of the most intriguing All-Star Games in recent memory.
With the great opening ceremony linking the former greats with the present stars, I had a feeling this might be a special night and a special game.
The only thing that surprised me about the opening ceremony was the Steinbrenners brought the ceremonial game balls in a brown paper bag. C’mon guys, you’re the Steinbrenners, you can do better.
Before I get to the game:
5 quick reasons I hated the All-Star Game
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