All Star game goes late but not a yawner

Now that was a pretty good All Star game, as far as All Star games go. A nifty 4 hour 50 minute 15 inning game. The NL lost (again) after holding the lead (again) two leads in fact. But all of that has come to be expected.

However the game did bring out some flaws in the system. MLB (Selig) needs to take a look at this. They need to make sure the managers are managing the game to win and not to play all of their players if the game is going to “count” as MLB puts it. They also need to take the voting away from fans if this game is going to count. Let the managers in the respective leagues vote. However I like the idea of the fans voting. Heck this whole event is supposed to be for the fans. And to do that MLB must turn this back into an exhibition and not have it count for home field advantage in the World Series.