{"id":235649,"date":"2026-07-04T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235649\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T21:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:20:08","slug":"city-of-philadelphia-may-have-leaked-some-mlb-all-stars-hours-before-the-big-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235649\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Philadelphia may have leaked some MLB All-Stars hours before the big announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Philadelphia <\/a>is, for obvious reasons, often at the center of Fourth of July celebrations, given that it’s quite literally the birthplace of the nation. But this year, the city is catching a little guff over an apparent oversight.<\/p>\n

The MLB All-Star Game<\/a> is set for the city’s Citizens Bank Park on July 14th, with rosters set to be announced on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

However, there certainly appear to have been some leaks, and it’s all thanks to a series of light pole banners.<\/p>\n

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The Philadelphia Phillies will host the 2026 MLB All-Star Game at Citizens Bank Park. ((Photo by Hunter Martin\/Getty Images))<\/p>\n

Whether they’re getting greased after a Super Bowl or spoiling All-Star rosters, does any city’s poles get as much attention as Philadelphia’s? Maybe Vegas’, but those are a different kind of pole.<\/p>\n

Some photos of banners around the city have made their way to social media, because they make it pretty clear that certain players are definitely headed to the Mid-Summer Classic.<\/p>\n

Whoops.<\/p>\n

You know, I don’t think you’d ever see a banner of Atlanta Braves<\/a> first baseman Matt Olson anywhere within Philadelphia city limits… unless, of course, he was going to be playing in the All-Star Game hosted in the city.<\/p>\n

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Of course, some of those banners are not going to shock anyone. Throwing Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> ace Paul Skenes on a banner was probably a safe bet, and could’ve been hanging there for months, and everyone would just be like, “Yeah, that sounds about right.”<\/p>\n

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Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes was one player who appeared on the banners that were put up a bit early. (Photo by Terence Lewis\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images))<\/p>\n

I’m just always amazed how things like this can happen. The directions seem pretty foolproof: Do not hang the banners until July 5.<\/p>\n

It’s almost like whoever delivered those details did so to someone half-listening while scrolling TikTok.<\/p>\n

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“Hang the All-Star banners all around the city before July 5. Got it. Can do, boss…”<\/p>\n

The official reveal of the All-Star rosters comes on Saturday night, 7:30 p.m. ET, on FOX.<\/p>\n

Matthew Reigle is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia is, for obvious reasons, often at the center of Fourth of July celebrations, given that it’s quite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1423,77081,69,71,70,1425],"class_list":["post-235649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-mlb","tag-outkick-sports","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}