It’s time.
It’s time to play the All-Star Game in the middle of the night.
Major League Baseball, pressured by the market to get its All-Star Game the heck out of Georgia, is looking for a new venue. They’re going to have to scramble. They’re going to have to put something together fast.
Or they could just go to Alaska.
Every summer, the Alaska Goldpanners play a baseball game around midnight. The Goldpanners are a college summer league team out of Fairbanks that plays in the Alaska Baseball League. On the summer solstice each year, they play the “Midnight Sun” game, an artificial-lightless game showcasing that they are really freaking far north. It’s a cool tradition. It’s very Americana. It’s one of those things that exists but isn’t very actively present in our lives, like how there are one hundred alligators a year rescued in New York City.
Major League Baseball should jump in on it.
The night will be a bit longer by the time the All-Star Break rolls around, but nobody’s going to care if MLB turns some lights on in Fairbanks. And in a year when travel is going to be difficult, why not go somewhere remote, with limited seating?
I’m sure there are financial reasons to not do this. But finances hold little weight upon my heart.
