Fenway Park will turn 100 in 2012 and the Red Sox wanted to host the All-Star Game as part of the celebration. The game however was awarded to Kanas City. ESPN’s Rob Neyer thinks MLB made the right choice:
More to the point, I think, is that there are a few teams with absolutely no use for the All-Star Game, and the Red Sox are one of them. They’ve sold out 550 straight games. Do they really need an All-Star Game when they send out their season-ticket pitches this winter? No. In fact they don’t need to send out pitches at all, as I’m sure the waiting list for season tickets won’t be exhausted until well into the next decade.
The game would have been nice but the Red Sox have shown that they can do celebrations right.
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