The whole all star weekend is becoming a chore. Once in a blue moon you have a good dunk contest (see 2016) but for the most part the All-Star affairs, in all sports, are dull. We try to suck as much enjoyment as we can, people will claim this years three point contest was good, but who will honestly remember it? The skills challenge had one notable moment in an hour of drudgery that was more an amusing anecdote than an actual highlight. The games themselves become more and more meaningless every year, and turn into a worse version of the dunk contest. And what used to be a marquee event, the Dunk Contest itself, is 90% overhype, people yelling "Go home" at any made dunk, and maybe one highlight that can be played in a thirty second clip. How many times can we see random guests get dunked over before we get tired? How many misses can we see before we call it quits? The creative well of dunks is dropping quickly, and less and less notable players participate each year. And this isn't just a NBA problem. The Pro Bowl game itself is beyond meaningless, and the skills challenges are something you throw on if nothing else is happening. The MLB All-Star game was once the crown jewel where you could see one time before the World Series the best of the NL go against the best of the AL. Now you see it multiple times a year, and seeing Clayton Kershaw go up against Christian Yelich one at bat is not exactly thrilling. The purpose of the All-Star games has faded, and has turned into a popularity contest that often barely honors the best players in the game. You only have to see the difference in pro-bowl and all-pro voting in the NFL to see All-Star voting is a joke. So the events aren't fun, they aren't competitive, the title barely means anything and they serve no purpose. How do we fix this problem you ask? Honestly, I don't think you can. Which is why it is time for us to do away with the whole concept. We can't make the games competitive and the players engaged, because getting hurt in a meaningless game is beyond stupid, and everyone knows this. And no one realistically begrudges the players for it. So the concept of the best players playing against each other is gone, and the reason why we watch sports at all, to watch elite players compete, is also gone. The events not being fun is also unavoidable. There are only so many activities related to each sport that you can reasonably throw in without it getting even more silly and pointless than it already is, and most at this point have been done to death. Watching NFL pros play a crappy game of dodgeball is fun for a minute, then I'm out. Joe Harris and Jayson Tatum being the three-point champ and the skills champ mean literally nothing to me. 99% of the All-Star games in each sport are beyond pointless, and we try desperately to cling to the 1% of time its legitimately good. It's not worth it. Lets just have whoever does the all-team awards do a nice mid-season ranking and be done with the whole thing. The players don't care, the teams don't care, the fan's barely care, so lets just end it once and for all.