The All-Star blunder

Another installment of the MLB All-Star game tonight and once again, another All-Star blunder by those who run the show at MLB. Like the recent past, this year, the All-Star game "means something", or at least that is what we are trying to be brainwashed with. As we all know, the league that wins the All-Star game gets home field advantage in the World Series - and that is the All-Star blunder for the ages.
No All-Star game should have any impact on the rest of the season. This is suppose to be an exhibition game of the best of the best in the league but there should not be a price tag on the result. But after the "debacle" in Milwaukee in 2002 when the All-Star game finished in a 7-7 tie in 11 innings. The result of the game came from poor managing, where pitches were only used for one inning each and by the 11th, both teams were out of pitchers. But instead of just saying, this was a one time thing and making changes to make sure that a game would not be tied again, like adding more pitching, the brass of MLB decide to do the worst thing possible - make the game mean something.
The game is suppose to mean having fun, seeing Albert Pujols face Roy Halliday and other great matchups. But the problem in both those names and the other top names are going to be out of the game by the fourth inning, meaning they have no bearing on the final results, when it actually means something.
When Pittsburgh's Zach Duke is pitching to Baltimore's Adam Jones late in the game, are either player going to be thinking about, I need to do something so we can host the World Series this year? There are playing late in the game that should not have any bearing on where the World Series is going to be played now having that bearing.
Major League Baseball used to decide who hosted the World Series by switching off each year with NL one year and AL the next. That makes no sense, but it is still better than what we have now.
Take a page from basketball or hockey, the team with the best record hosts the World Series. That is how baseball does it with the divisional and league series, so why not the World Series.
While fans are allowed to vote on who plays in the All-Star game and players do not even go more than two or three innings during the game, than the All-Star game should have no deciding factor on anything to do with the rest of the season.