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Bud Puts Issue To Bed…All-Star Game Boring

I have been critical of Bud Selig many times but I have to give him props for putting the contrived controversy over Derek Jeter's absence from the ASG to bed.  Selig made it very clear that he was not disappointed in Jeter's decision and in fact understood it completely.  In addition, Selig went on to say that Jeter has been an excellent ambassador for baseball and was a role model on and off the field.  The Commissioner made it very clear that anyone saying that he was disappointed or upset about the Jeter's decision was flat out wrong.  Now maybe we can expect the talking heads at ESPN to focus on the second half of the season.

A final note on this issue, if Derek Jeter had not reached 3,000 hits before the ASG would anyone have cared that he wasn't going to the game??  In fact, if he did go to the game I'm sure you would have heard that Jeter didn't deserve to be on the team let alone start.  That's why this whole thing was nothing more than a media created controversy.

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Last night's ASG was flat out boring.  It's rather unfortunate that home field advantage for the World Series was determined by this exhibition which did not have much excitement.  Wonder what the story is with Josh Beckett as he had a problem with his knee which prevented him from going into the game.  If it forces him to miss any games it really puts the Red Sox rotation in a real mess.