And playing pretend is what the sports media does in its annual overly enthusiastic imagined-significance emphasis on All-Star games, who made the teams and — scandal! — who didn’t!
Anyone old enough — I prefer “pre-deceased” — to remember the Buster Brown shoes jingle? Of Buster and his dog, Tige, who both “live inside,” it concluded that they’re “really just a picture, but it’s fun to play pretend!”
And playing pretend is what the sports media does in its annual overly enthusiastic imagined-significance emphasis on All-Star games, who made the teams and — scandal! — who didn’t!
This week we have MLB’s All-Star Game, next week the WNBA’s.
