Yessss! The Arizona Diamondbacks and Chase Field will play host to Major League Baseball's All-Star Game and surrounding activities in the year 2011. This has been a long time coming - baseball stadiums built *since* ours was built have already had their opportunities to host the All-Star Game, so it's about time Phoenix was awarded the game! I am proud to think my city will be showcased during this grand event, and I even hope to attend, if not the game itself, perhaps the Home Run Derby (this is still two years off, so who knows?)
I still chuckle thinking about one certain Anaheim taxi driver from 20 years ago - my mom and I went to see a California Angels game in the mid-80's, and took a taxi to the stadium. We were talking about how hopeful we were that one day, Phoenix would have a major league team of its own. The taxi driver scoffed at this, telling us that "Phoenix is a very, very small town. You don't have enough population to support a team." We asked him if he had ever actually BEEN to Phoenix, and he said no! When we informed him that Phoenix and the surrounding metropolitan area was actually bigger in population than a lot of cities that already had major league baseball, such as Kansas City or Seattle or Pittsburgh, etc., he didn't believe us! We had lived in Phoenix for over 20 years at that point, he had never BEEN to Phoenix, and yet he didn't believe us! So when Phoenix was awarded the Diamondbacks as an expansion team, and then when the D-backs won the World Series, and now that we are getting an All-Star game - I still think of that guy and wonder what his opinion is of all this!
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