The American Royal (from whence the baseball team stole it's name) is held in Kansas City every year.

And over the winter, Dayton Moore will trade the All-Star game for a AAA cow milking contest.

This was long rumored, and bones Fenway out of their hoped for 100th anniversary celebration. It probably also bodes poorly for Wrigley's chances in 2014, although Fenway has hosted an All-Star game more recently than Wrigley. Target Field (new Twins stadium) is allegedly the favorite for the 2014 game.

Where is the game the next two years? I assume Citifield has one of the two and New Yankee Stadium (despite old Yankee Stadium getting the game last year) either has already or will soon be earmarked for one as well.

2010 - Anaheim
2011 - Phoenix

2010 - Anaheim
2011 - Phoenix

Great. The Mets haven't hosted an ASG in 46 years, soak the taxpayers for a state-of-the-art $1 billion stadium and STILL can't get one? Lovely.

Florida was supposed to get one.






Jerks.

"The Mets haven't hosted an ASG in 46 years, soak the taxpayers for a state-of-the-art $1 billion stadium and STILL can't get one? Lovely."

Maybe they should've tried building a good stadium.

Great. The Mets haven't hosted an ASG in 46 years, soak the taxpayers for a state-of-the-art $1 billion stadium and STILL can't get one? Lovely.

Pittsburgh has hosted three ASG since Kansas City last hosted it in 1973. Its a weird selection process.

I would think Nats would be in line for 2013, right?

Its a weird selection process.

Isn't that basically just whatever Bud Selig wants to do? I know I've heard that teams which sign over slot are sometimes "punished" by not getting the All-Star game. I'm surprised DC, which would seem to need the boost, hasn't gotten on the list.

Kansas Citians finally get to cheer for a winning team - the American League.


Given this, I really, really hope the AL keeps its streak alive until 2012 so they can lose in KC.


Can you imagine a HR derby in Citifield? Babe Ruth beat Barry Bonds 2-1.

I'm still kind of irked that the NL hosted back-to-back games in 06 and 07. I'm fine with getting rid of alternating HFA at the World Series, but rotating between leagues as host cities for the All-Star game should have been preserved. Damn you Bud.

Just in time for Zack Geinke's first return to Kansas City since being traded in 2011 for three crappy prospects to the Dodgers!

I would think Nats would be in line for 2013, right?

Not at least until 2017*, for several reasons:

1. CitiField will likely get the '13 game. Miami could get it in '15 -- no All-Star Game has been played in the state of Florida. If not Miami, then Minute Maid or the Cit.

2. The economy needs to pick up before the development around Nationals Park begins to blossom. The goal is to have a D.C. equivalent of LoDo in Denver, but you're building an area from scratch. It was going to take time anyway, but the recession dealt a blow to any sudden growth.

3. I think there's still some resentment from much of MLB's old guard that Washington even has a team in the first place, and the only reason it does is because there was no viable alternative market. The so-so attendance and dreadful ratings (for awful product) don't help much either. (But what would you expect from an area that hasn't experienced September pennant race baseball in nearly two-thirds of a century?) People in D.C. understandably have a fatalistic approach to baseball.

*No wisecracks about the Nats not being here in 2017 -- this team has a 30-year lease, which presumably is ironclad. That wasn't the case with the Bob Short-era Senators.

There was a time when bud was using the ASG as a carrot to reward cities that came through with stadium bucks. That kind of went by the wayside when they started getting behind on the new parks and also needed to wedge in a hat tip to Boston and Ted W and a farewell to Yankee Stadium. I totally agree that it should still alternate leagues, what with it Counting and all.

What kind of animal does Petco have to kill to get the game? Rabbit? Rooster?

farewell to Yankee Stadium

That one annoyed me; Tiger Stadium didn't get a farewell. Less history, sure, but at least it was substantially the same ballpark from the old days instead of a 70s relic.

If not Miami, then Minute Maid or the Cit.

Minute Maid hosted in 2004.

Ballparks that have never hosted the ASG:
Landshark Stadium - Florida (Miami has never hosted)
Tropicana Field - Tampa Bay (St. Pete has never hosted)
Chase Field - Arizona (will host in 2011, Phoenix has never hosted)
Great American Ballpark - Cincinnati (last hosted in 1988)
Citizens Bank Ballpark - Philly (last hosted in 1996)
Petco Field - San Diego (last hosted in 1992)
Nationals Park - Washington (last hosted in 1969)
Citi Field - NY Mets (last hosted in 1964)
Yankee Stadium - NY Yankees (last hosted in 2008)

Longest droughts without hosting:
Kauffman Stadium - Kansas City (1973)
Dodger Stadium - Los Angeles (1980)
MetroDome - Minnesota (1985)
Oakland Colisuem - Oakland (1987)
Angel Stadium - Anaheim (1989)
Wrigley Field - Chicago (1990)
Rogers Centre - Toronto (1991)

On another note, I hope this gets KC to get their ass in gear on mass transit, because I can't imagine the "Fan Fest" will be in the parking lot of Arrowhead Stadium, there are not nearly enough hotel rooms at the Truman Sports Complex to accomodate all these people, and I don't know how all these out-of-townres are going to travel from downtown to the stadiums.

That one annoyed me; Tiger Stadium didn't get a farewell. Less history, sure, but at least it was substantially the same ballpark from the old days instead of a 70s relic.

I would guess this was because the Tigers' ownership wanted one at the new place instead.

3. I think there's still some resentment from much of MLB's old guard that Washington even has a team in the first place, and the only reason it does is because there was no viable alternative market.

Ever heard of San Antonio? We have over three million people in the AUS-SA corridor.

And RB, you are 100% right. The corner should have had a nice sendoff. Mike and Marian Illitch usually do the right thing by the city, but on this one they plain screwed up.

I know I've heard that teams which sign over slot are sometimes "punished" by not getting the All-Star game

Bud Selig's right hand man, Sandy Alderson, was running the Padres for a touch recently. (he is back working for the commissioner again.)The Padres even had the whole "New ballpark" thing going for them, not to mention the fabulous weather, they stayed within slot, and got only a world baseball classic thingee out of the whole deal.

Of course the home run derby would probably suck if they held it at Petco, so maybe that has something to do with it.

I'm surprised DC, which would seem to need the boost, hasn't gotten on the list.

Which contrasts to the time when Washington got three games within 13 years (1956-1962 [new stadium] - 1969 [for baseball's Centennial, when native son Bowie Kuhn had the game moved to RFK]). When the All-Star game first began, they used to have a very tight rotation among the parks, but when franchises began to move, and then you had expansion, and then you started to get waves of new ballparks, it became a total crapshoot.

BTW if anyone wants to see a pair of games for the ages in terms of who did what, check out who hit all ten of the home runs in these two games. Ten home runs, ten Hall of Famers, nine first ballot selections, and a career total among them of 5298 home runs.

That 1971 game was played in 2 hours and 5 minutes. That was on last night on MLB, along with a host of others through the day and night. Great stuff to watch.

Of course the home run derby would probably suck if they held it at Petco, so maybe that has something to do with it.

Maybe they could bat from second base.

That 1971 game was played in 2 hours and 5 minutes.

And with eight pitchers and six home runs, no less. It's amazing how fast a game can progress when the stalling and the bullshlt are eliminated.

That 1971 game was played in 2 hours and 5 minutes

I was watching the 1981 ASG on MLB Network this weekend and I was amazed how few pitches every hitter saw. A lot of guys swung at the very first offering, and many hit little dribblers. It was a different game back then.

Of course the home run derby would probably suck if they held it at Petco, so maybe that has something to do with it.

Just so long as they don't hold them back-to-back at CitiField and Petco.

So this means the Royals aren't going to be contracted until 2013?

That kind of went by the wayside when they started getting behind on the new parks and also needed to wedge in a hat tip to Boston and Ted W and a farewell to Yankee Stadium.

The hat tip to Boston wasn't an "and also"; they only ended up hosting because Miller Park construction delays kept it from hosting in 1999.

Even the '95 ASG (2:40)(as I watched a bit on MLB) appeared to breeze along, Kenny Rogers pitched as if he had to drop a deuce.

People in D.C. understandably have a fatalistic approach to baseball.

Until these Nationals, there hadn't been a team in Washington in about 34 years. With so much time passed, I don't really buy that idea....a lot of people living in Senators-era D.C. aren't there now? Can't really have a fatalistic if you've never even known what you once had?

This will probably be the last All-Star Game ever (what with the world ending in 2012 and whatnot) so this is kind of a big deal.

This will probably be the last All-Star Game ever (what with the world ending in 2012 and whatnot) so this is kind of a big deal.

Semi-related: I feel obligated to share this awesome fake trailer for the 2012 movie.