It is my fault for not realizing this sooner, but I guess they didn’t put Joe Kelly on the All-Star roster this year?
Pretty messed up.
It’s odd that the MLB didn’t change the name of the event to the All-but-one-Star Game in lieu of this snub, but alas—just one more grievance on the list.
Why baseball, as a whole, neglected to put a man with a 100-mph fastball, devastating off-speed stuff, great hair, a handsome face, a 100-mph fastball, a sterling postseason résumé, the moniker of “baseball’s most entertaining player,” and a 100-mph fastball on the All-Star roster is beyond me, but they made the decision, and we were subjected to a misleading affair last night in Kelly’s absence. It was as though we’d traveled to Paris to see the Louvre but arrived to find the Mona Lisa not on display. Or driven to St. Louis only to see that someone had chopped down the Arch.
We, baseball fans, have been disrespected.
We won’t forget this.
