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Matt Harvey and Mariano Rivera Have to Start MLB All-Star Game, for New York

class="ui-droppable">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 ESPNNewYork.com's Michael Mazzeo.

The quote is both magnanimous and entirely expected ...

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