Matt Harvey and Mariano Rivera Have to Start MLB All-Star Game,
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Mike Stobe/Getty Images  The 2013 MLB All-Star Game will be held
at Citi Field in New York this season, and while David Wright
has been given the keys to the game as honorary ambassador for
the Mets, it's one of his teammates, Matt Harvey, who should be
the first guy with the ball.  Across town, Mariano Rivera is
halfway through his year-long retirement tour to end an
illustrious Hall of Fame career, and despite coming out and
stating he doesn't want to start the All-Star Game, well…tough.
It makes too much sense for him not to.   "What I do is close
the games, I don't start the games. It's a privilege and honor,
but I'm not contemplating it," he told's Michael Mazzeo.  The
quote is both magnanimous and entirely expected from the Yankee
great, but it's still the wrong decision.  Rivera should start
the game for the American League. Sure, he says he's a closer
and would probably feel m