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Muddied up: Eldora Speedway, MLB settle on 'Mudsummer Classic' title

Published Dec. 3, 2015 4:45 p.m. ET

Tom Jensen

It might not seem that the average sports fan would confuse the Major League Baseball All-Star Game with a NASCAR race at a remote dirt track in the Midwest, but two similar-sounding event nicknames created an issue.

So on Thursday, Major League Baseball Properties, Inc., and the Tony Stewart-owned Eldora Speedway in bucolic Rossburg, Ohio, announced an agreement about names.

After pressure from the MLB, the fourth running of Eldora’s NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race -- set for July 20, 2016 -- will no longer be called the “Mudsummer Classic” or the “Mud Summer Classic.”

Seems like the “mud” names were too close to the “Midsummer Classic” handle MLB uses to promote their All-Star Game.

As part of the agreement, the always sharp Eldora general manager Roger Slack offered this gem of a non-apology apology to allegedly confused baseball fans.

“We hope all of the baseball fans who traveled to Rossburg, Ohio the past three years in anticipation of the MLB All-Star Game enjoyed the race and the $2 beers,” Slack said in a statement released by the track.

Roger that, race fans. Roger that.