It IS retarded, but I am not sure if it is retarded for the reasons you think.

Baseball is fucked up because two free-spending teams are in the same division. More, the other three teams in that division have to DO CRAZY SHIT just to compete.

The Blue Jays were the 4th best team in the majors, according to Pythagorean record last year. They were also 4th in the AL East.

ERGO, making an all-star team of these slobs makes a mockery of the game, since the best players in baseball play in the AL East.

ERGO, having home field advantage decided in this way is dumb. The AL hasn't lost the all-star game since this format took hold.

ERGO, goddamn man, someone's gonna one day die in the NASCAR race, since MONEY is so important. That makes it the dumbest all-star event.

[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]The baseball all-star game determines home field advantage in the World Series, numbnuts[/quote]

BAAAHAHahahhaha. The only thing that makes it even remotely relevant is because of a TERRIBLE IDEA!!

That's worse than being completely irrelevant!!!

[quote="pinback"][quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]At least the Pro Bowl doesn't waste gasoline.[/quote]

That's right, the players just SWIM to fucking Hawaii.[/quote]

John Madden doesn't go to the game. Do the math on how much fuel is saved by him staying home. DO THE MATH.

The baseball all-star game determines home field advantage in the World Series, numbnuts

And anyway, you're all wrong, because the NASCAR one, at least relative to the sport itself, is the LEAST useless. In all the others (except the Grand Slam of Golf, since how hard is it to give 100% to a damn round of golf), it's for show, and everyone's going at about 70% (or in the case of the Pro Bowl, 40%). But the NASCAR event is about CASH DOLLAH BILLS, and since these teams require CASH DOLLAH BILLS to function, and there's a big CASH DOLLAH BILLS reward for winning the event, they all go balls-out to get it. And instead of one long-ass race like usual, there are several different small races, each of which is important if you want those CASH DOLLAH BILLS, so it's nonstop action.

As Worm says, if you hate the sport, then you just voted for that because you hate the sport, but if you knew anything about it, you realize that relative to the sport its exhibiting, it is by far the least useless of the events.

You have voted... [i]poorly.[/i]

Just because you'd pick Nascar for "Most Worthless Event in General" doesn't mean it has to effect your choice here.

[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey"]At least the Pro Bowl doesn't waste gasoline.[/quote]

That's right, the players just SWIM to fucking Hawaii.

At least the Pro Bowl doesn't waste gasoline.

I'm not including "all of the above", because shut up.