The All Star Events

So the past couple days we've had the various all star events, those being the home run derby and the all star game in specific. Now first off the home run derby, we saw Yoenis Cespedes win his second derby back to back. The interesting part about this is that he is one of only 2 players to do this in MLB history and that other person is Ken Griffey Jr, making this a fairly impressive feat. On the other hand the new format for  to derby does seem to still have some kinks to work out, specifically related to the players who get a bye through to the 3rd round and this is because both Giancarlo Stanton and Jose Bautista managed to hit very few if any home runs after getting said bye. Now the reason I say this is because both Stanton and Baustista are known to just destroy the ball and Bautista has already won 2 home run derbys in his career. However in both cases they had to wait over an hour and a half until they got a chance to hit for the second time and many people, including myself believe that they got out of their groove and we're unable to get settled at the start of the third round. But either way Cespedes performed great and was very deserving of the win, my problem was more that Todd Frazier got to the finals since Stanton hit no home runs in the third round. Oh and Puig completely whiffed.

Then we had the All Star the next day and aside from the expected farewell to Derek Jeter stuff there was only a couple interesting situations that occurred. The first of those was Adam Waignwright who was being interviewed after giving up a double to Jeter, a triple to Trout and a home run to Miggy, and he said that he gave Jeter a few balls right down the middle that he coule hit. Now I don't have any problem with this seeing as it happens a fair bit when big name players are retiring, however it think Adam shouldn't have said anything about it and not so people can keep the illusion that Jeter hit those himself but by saying I the is making himself the centre of attention and the focus comes off Jeter. While this was a stupid move I don't believe that Waignwright did this on purpose because from what I can tell from his personality in interviews or quotes in articles just seems like a straight up and honest guy. Aside from that there wasn't anything all that crazy that happened, the AL won 5-3 over the NL and in classy fashion Jon Farrell had the pair of Glen Perkins and Kurt Suzuki, both Minnesota Twins players, close out the game and get the save giving the city a sense of accomplishment. Overall a good game though again like the Home run Derby it could use some tweaking since the whole thing seems just like a kids sports game where everyone needs to participate and get a ribbon. Additionally I can say from experience, it is. NIGHTMARE to try to score, I have done it twice successfully but only because of having the MLB app open at the same time since some changes weren't announced on the TV broadcast. Anyhow what should be done is include a good number of guys but play it like a real game and Rey to win instead of just try to get in as many players as possible (ie. keep the starting pitcher in for 4 innings before getting into the bullpen). Hopefully we can see some positive changes on this stuff in the near future.