The fact that whatever National League team that participates in the World Series this year will have home-field advantage because of a win by the NL in the All-Star Game is, in my opinion, the stupidest rule in sports.

Eight years after the establishment of the rule, it still blows my mind.  I just have never been able to understand what Bud Selig was thinking after the infamous tie in 2002.  An exhibition game decides whether or not a team plays at home or on the road in a (potential) Game 7 of the World Series.  Instead of, you know, deciding which team gets home-field advantage by basing it off of their regular season records, which might actually make September games meaningful for some ball clubs.  (Perhaps even crazier(!), Joe Morgan once said that home-field advantage should be alternated year-by-year.  This is why he should be fired.)

Just think about it.  I know it's not that likely—and in all honestly I'd be shocked if this were to happen—but let's say that the Detroit Tigers magically make the World Series this season.  The series goes seven games, and while Detroit had a better record in the regular season, the National League team gets to play in the friendly confines of their home ballpark in the must-win Game 7.  This is all because Brian McCann happened to hit a bases-clearing double in an exhibition game.  (A little side-note: McCann's double was the first bases-clearing double in All-Star Game history.)

I know that I'm throwing around a lot of hypotheticals and "what if?" statements, but I don't think it's too farfetched to ask these hypotheticals.

Nineteen of the last 24 World Series' have been won by the team with home-field advantage.  The last eight World Series Game 7s have been won by the team with home-field advantage.  Now, I've never been big on stats like that because each team and each year is different, but I do think that they have at least some tangibility in this type of situation.

I really, truly hope that someone in the upper tier of the Major League Baseball hierarchy finally comes around and tells Bud, a former used car salesman, that the rule needs to be changed.  It's incredibly obvious that it has to be.