Hallelujah, the MLB announced there will be no sticky-substance checks at the All-Star Game, a game which literally does not matter – Golf Digest

Believe it or not, the MLBs All-Star weekend is less than two weeks away. Maybe youve been busy getting back to life, or maybe youve been distracted by baseballs Controversy Du Jour, which just so happens to be Sticky Substances. In mid-June, the MLB officially began in-game checks on pitchers for long-accepted substances used to help apply spin to the baseball and avoid career-altering injury in doing so. The midseason 180 has generated plenty of backlash from pitchers and fans alike, and has led to countless surprisingly creepy interruptions to your regularly scheduled baseball programming.

But we have spectacular news, anti-anti-stickies: This week the MLB made the HUGE announcement that it will take a ONE-NIGHT ONLY break from foreign-substance checks for the comprehensively meaningless All-Star Game. Wow. What can we say. We are truly blessed to be a part of such a wonderful sport run so wisely by the great and all-knowing Mr. Robert Manfred. Glory be!

Industrial-grade sarcasm aside, it really makes you wonder what the thought processif there is oneis here. At the height of the steroid era, the MLB didnt make the All-Star Game free HGH night. During the juiced ball era, they didnt give the Home Run Derby participants Superballs to hit. When it comes to watching Jacob DeGrom throw exactly two-thirds of an inning of consequenceless baseball, however, theyre relaxing their own hastily established rules in the name of, um, more strikeouts?

If that sounds dumb to you, thats because it is dumb. Welcome to baseball. Youre going to love it here.

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Hallelujah, the MLB announced there will be no sticky-substance checks at the All-Star Game, a game which literally does not matter - Golf Digest