Author: mw2828

 The sun sprayed vibrant beams off Monty’s shades and he smiled, tapping the bat lightly against his cleats. He briefly surveyed his surroundings, knowing that this minor lapse in concentration was well worth the view. The crowd was monumental, swaying and weaving, a summer splashed collage, all sweat and vigor, humming with anticipation.

The All Star Break has indeed arrived, providing it’s usual prompt for differing opinions on a variety of mundane topics, ranging from how exactly home field advantage should be tabulated in the Fall Classic, to whether every single team should have it’s respective existence justified with an All Star selection. The answers to these questions are relatively simple, but it doesn’t stop the media from pondering philosophical for days on end.

[By the way, there is no right way to determine home field advantage in the World Series. The prevailing argument at this current unstable juncture calls for the team with the best record to be awarded home field, but even that seemingly sane opinion can be easily challenged: If an NL team has the superior record in this particular season, their dominance would definitely include a caveat, that being success reaped over inferior competition. I say give it to the League who won the Inter-League battle. If nothing else, it would annoy pessimistic purists to a laughable boiling point. Always a worthwhile exercise.]