All-Star moment is here — even if the buzz isn’t

Living here in South Florida, youmight be downright giddy that our Giancarlo Stanton and Justin Bour are in the Home Run Derby on Monday atMarlins Park and Stanton andMarcell Ozuna are in the All-Star Game on Tuesday.

Except that, living here in South Florida, you also might not even knowAll-StarWeek has arrived. Even if you know, it’s not clear you care. The sport that prides itself on statistics above all others finds one stat most relevant about this Midsummer Classic.

Not home runs. Not strikeouts. Not even the all-powerful OPS. Just this: Attendance. Howmany fannies will be in the seats? Right now, the answer starts with: Can we send a car for you?

Typically, an All-Star controversy revolves around player snubs or some scrub not getting in the big game. Those are down the line-up items this time.

Leading off, we have theMarlins’ saleor-no-sale dominating talk, meaning who’s in (JorgeMas?) and who’s out (Derek Jeter?) andwhy this threatens to go on and on like one of those endless, nine-inning games.

Batting second, we have the impending Marlins’ Fire Sale IV coming up. And it is coming, folks. They’ll sell everything but the home-run sculpture. TheMarlins have shipped out scouts to a half-dozen teams’ minor-league parks to study prospects and consider trades.

What’s more, it makes rebuilding sense considering the stagnant record, the record payroll, the lack of pitching and prospects and the coming storm of contracts. So give Ozuna and Bour and even Stanton a really