It’s all officially over, with the National League having defeated the American League 5-1 in Tuesday night’s All-Star Game. This is the NL’s second consecutive win, which comes after the AL went undefeated for 13 years in a row. That undefeated streak is not called a winning streak because of the infamous tie in 2002, and I wonder how they would handle that now.
MLB All-Star Game 2011: Prince Fielder Named MVP
NL Wins: NL representative gets World Series home-field advantage
AL Wins: AL representative gets World Series home-field advantage
Tie: World Series played in Hiram Bithorn Stadium
Once the game was over, it was time for Bud Selig to rather dispassionately announce Prince Fielder as the winner of the 2011 MLB All-Star Game MVP award, account of his game-changing three-run homer. Any surprise was ruined when FOX returned from commercial and showed Fielder and his kids standing next to Selig before he even started reading his announcement off a piece of paper. It would've been funny if Fielder were standing there and then Selig announced like Tyler Clippard. Surprise! This comically enormous $40,000 check isn't for you!
The check wasn’t actually for Fielder anyway, as it was a symbolic check, which is the worst kind of check. Fielder will instead have a youth baseball field in Milwaukee renovated and named in his honor, with the whole projected slated to be completed just around the time that Fielder becomes a free agent. The field will be used not for baseball, but as a place to bury beloved pets.
Fielder also got a badass trophy.
It’s over! Congratulations, entire National League!
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