Today the Cubs and Padres play in the last Hall of Fame Game in Cooperstown, NY. A tradition that's spanned decades, the Hall of Fame Game is going away after this year, which makes sense. It is only an exhibition, which means it takes teams out of their regular season schedule to travel to remote Cooperstown for a competition that is ultimately meaningless. For this year's game the Cubs called up 16 minor leaguers to play in place of their parent league players.
Although this sort of indifference to the game proves it is more of an annoyance than honor to MLB teams, there's a group called savethefamegame.com trying to raise support for continuing the tradition. Their list of reasons to keep things going is absurd. Among the minutiae: the hall of game game survived steroids, MLB is greedy, Yankee Stadium is closing, and kids. They don't have much of an argument.
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