One more complaints of home run derby

My first complaint is that Adam Dunn has never participated in the Home Run Derby. 1 of 5 players in baseball with 40 homer power has never participated in the event perfectly designed for him? It's not because he is afraid to screw up his swing, ha thats funny, or would prefer to party really hard like Tim Lincecum making him too dizzy. It's because he has only been to the all-star game one time in his career(2002) and MLB has a silly little rule that states you can only be in the HR derby if you made the AS team. How stupid can baseball be!? All-Star weekend is designed to showcase baseballs best talent. Then why not have the best homer hitters in the derby, regardless if they are good enough to make the all star team.

What if we got rid of Inge and Mauer and inserted Dunn and Branyan? Yes, I agree, that would be a million times better, but baseball is just too stupid to do tiny things that would go a long way with the casual baseball fan. Even the NBA is smart enough to get high flyers in the slam dunk contest regarless if they made the AS team. Nate Robinson will never be an AS, but he can put on quite a show. If the NBA has the same rule, we would have never seen Robinson, J-Rich, Josh Smith or tiny Spud Webb. Baseball needs to enter the 21st century and maybe think outside the lines. But having a guy like Bud Selig running your organization will keep you in the stone age.