Playoffs?

I was watching the NHL All-Star game yesterday and they discussed during the broadcast, that the NHL was considering having the Stanley Cup home-ice determined by the winning conference of the All-Star game. It's no that I don't understand the need to make the All-Star game more valuable, but... Major League baseball has the same in place already. STOOOOPID! Why should an exhibition between players that would not normally even make it to the World Series or Stanley Cup have to do with where the game is played? Why in the world would you give a team an advantage half a season before the event is played? Granted you' get all the best players together, they need to have motivation to win such a game and not let it be just a romp or farce. How about this, the winners gets paid more. Didn't they already do this? How about Professional Pride, or is that gone from the athlete's of today. Love of the game has been replaced by the ever weakening dollar bill. 10 million dollars for one season of baseball is becoming common place. All-Star games are a showcase of the best of the best, usually. sometimes they add a player fro a team that is not represented. How can such an advantage in championship series be allowed to be even considered? Let's take the Milwaukee Brewer's for example, they put 2-3 players in the All-Star game, they play well and help decide the outcome and the National League wins the classic game. These players do not even make the playoffs, annually! So the team from the AL has to go to the NL series and they may have earned the best record in baseball! Why, ... how, should this be? What if the NL team was barely over .500 in winning percentage, but made it to the Series, why should they have home field advantage over a season of dominance by an AL team? I think this should be reconsidered and dropped as a motivational instrument for players in All-Star games! Make the All-Star game a show, pay the winners more than the losers, make it a circus, so we can see their talents, but do not make it a determining factor in how major athletic championships can be influenced!