[Maritime Q-Scout]

Personally, I like that the All-Star game determines home field advantage for the World Series (and this is coming from a Rangers fan, the only AL team to NOT have the advantage since this policy was implemented IIRC).

However there are downsides:

If the game means something, shouldn't it be managed like a regular game? If that means Roy Halladay for 8 innings and Brian Wilson close it out, shouldn't that be how it's played, not 8 or 9 different pitchers? Not to have everyone play, but play to win?

Additionally, I'd add the caveat that if the winning league's champion was the wildcard winner, then they lose the advantage. Therefore the league only gets home field advantage if they won the all-star game and their World Series representative won their division.


I don't know if I buy the west division argument. If that was the case, why do the Yankees, Red Sox always put up big numbers? The last number of years the Rays are there too, so there's 3 of 5 teams that are 3 of the top 5 teams in the AL in the same division and yet they still have amazing records. Shouldn't their win/loss records be artificially low?