
All-Star Weekend is everything wrong with the All-Star Game. Like everything in America, if there’s way to overdo it, overthink it, overmarket it, overproduce it, that will happen.
If the clown hats and clown jerseys they sell aren’t bad enough, the entire All-Star break has turned into an experience that you would be best to experience.
There are so many things wrong with the overhyped and overproduced festivities. Perhaps nothing is worse than what is called the Celebrity Softball Game.
Celebrity is the key word in this case.
Here is who are participating in this “celebrity” game. See if you can identify anyone in this list.
Tiffany Haddish, Deion Sanders, Marcello Hernandez, King Bach, Dez Bryant, Eladio Carrion, Myke Towers, Kane Brown, West Wilson, Matt James, Terrell Owens, Camille Costek, Tyler Toney, Garrett Hilbert, Payo Solis, Julian Peña Jr, Foreign Teck, Nelson Vegara, Lucas Brody, Bobby Bones, Nelson Vergara, Bobby Bones, Jenna Bandi, Dani Austin, Nicky Cass, Kieron Pollard, Pedro Martinez, Jennie Finch, Natasha Watley, Lauren Gibson.
It’s a virtual who’s who of “who?”
A celebrity is someone you see sitting at the next table at a restaurant and you say, “Oh, I just saw Tom Hank sitting at the next table at a restaurant.” A minor celebrity is someone you see and say, “I know that person, I just don’t know who he is.”
A non-celebrity is someone you see, don’t recognize, never heard of them who if they told you who they are and you’ve never heard of them and if they told you what they did, you’ve never heard of it.
That is the “Celebrity” Softball Game at All-Star Village this weekend. You know it’s important because it’s being played in the Old Ballpark. The one without a roof and air conditioning. In 100-degree heat.
Just another reason to hate the All-Star festivities.
Remember when it was just a game?