The All-Star Game is over. Long live the All-Star Game.

The 2007 edition, that is. The Mid-Season Classic, still mid-season but hardly "classic," has stumbled through another dull exhibition. More Fan-Fest merchandising, boring play, inane mid-game interviews with managers and players.

Worst of all, the continued injection of false intensity, known in commissioner Bud Selig's world as "meaningfulness," geared to increase fan interest.

That would be the awarding of home-field advantage to whichever World Series team this fall comes from the league that wins the All-Star Game. In other words, perenial World Series hopefuls like the Yankees, Red Sox, Angels, Tigers, Mets, Atlanta pray a late-inning All-Star replacement from doormats in Pittsburgh and Kansas City can put them in a better position to win a World Series.

Yes, it's the same twisted machination that Brooklynites suffering the Atlantic Yards project have foisted upon us every day.

In that spirit, we present the Fans For Fair Play Mid-Season Classic, one of our classic, patented bulleted lists. It's suitable for readers with short attention spans (bulleted points are short brevity deluxe!) or long attention spans (this thing could go on forever!):

* The Atlantic Yards project is mired in court proceedings. The federal case against Ratner's and New York State's eminent domain abuse will be under review for some time. The state case, concerning the insufficient environmental impact statement and other acts of governmental malfeasance, has had its ruling deadline extended all the way to September -- citing the enormous complexities of the case.

Ratner is passing the time by creating as many ugly, weed-strewn empty lots as possible. Other than that, he can't move forward on his skyscrapers and basketball arena.

* In spite of it's p.r. blitzkrieg, Barclays Bank, the $400 million naming-rights sponsor for Ratner's Nets Arena, still has a tainted history of slavery, apartheid, Nazi collaboration, fiscal support for the Congo civil war, and support for the current Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe. Bruce Ratner, courter of Black support here in Brooklyn, must be very proud of his business partners.

* The Staten Island Yankees, and their G.M. Jane Rogers, are still lying to fans about the view from their ballpark.

* Vince Carter, the Nets' co-superstar, has inked a four-year $60 million contract to stay with the team. This continues Ratner's habit of overpaying for inept p.r. Ratner and his retinue of investors have already shelled out $300 million for the franchise, on which they've lost $20 to $40 million a year.

Now, they've spent another $60 million on a moody superstar who never comes through in the clutch -- sorta like recently departed Forest City Ratner V.P. Jim Stuckey, who never sealed the Atlantic Yards deal.

Remember, Ratner's soaking New York taxpayers for $2 billion to build his luxury-condo skyscraper development, but can afford to spend $60 million on a basketball player on the downside of his career.

* Ratner's Nets just announced a new contract for head coach Lawrence Frank, who's never gotten this team with three top-rank stars past the second round of the playoffs. Frank, of course, is a perfect yes-man, the kind Ratner likes. The Nets' previous coach, Byron Scott, was cantankerous, but he got the Nets to the NBA finals two years in a row.

It doesn't much matter for Ratner, who only bought the team for public relations. He doesn't want personality or even results from the Nets -- just a pretty picture he can point at to distract politicians every time he gets heat for signing deals with slavery-profiteering banks, collapses buildings without proper pedestrial safeguards, milks taxpayers for public funding, prices thousandas of apartments beyond working-class reach, and pushes people out of their homes and jobs to make room for his luxury condos.

* Amazing that Ratner would even think that sports is a good p.r. angle these days. The NFL's multiple problems (Michael Vick dog-fighting scandal, Pacman Jones' and Tank Johnson's legal problems), the NBA point-shaving scandal, and Barry Bonds' steroid-poisoned chase of the Hank Aaron's home-run record. Like that's gonna make the "Brooklyn" Nets sound like a good idea.

* Michael O'Keeffe and Teri Thompson's new book, The Card: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card, is terrific -- a thought-out, entertaining, lucid analysis of an absolute armpit of the American sports scene -- the memorabilia market and the self-accredited flim-flammers that encourage people to put a price on hero-worship and legend-making. It's available at both independent on-line booksellers and the usual mega sellers

* Speaking of books, there's this new one you might've heard of, about a teenage wizard fighting evil to its knees. We got our copy at the Community Book Store in Park Slope -- they did up the place as Hogwarts; wizards, witches and dementors running around practicing the dark arts; serving free butterbeer and Every Flavor Beans; and in general, everyone having a great time. It was heartening seeing a line around the block of people willing to pay higher prices to support a small indy bookshop, rather than the deep discounts seducing mindnight shoppers at Barnes & Noble further south on Seventh Avenue.

If the Atlantic Yards project comes to moldy fruition, your only choice in that neck of the woods will be Barnes & Noble and Borders. Matching his starchitecht Frank Gehry's famous aversion to doing context, Ratner doesn't do small indy businesses -- only nationwide chain stores.

* It's emerged, during the summer, that there isn't near enough public money to subsidize Ratner's "affordable" housing component at his hoped-for Atlantic Yards. Too many non-profits, and Ratner's very for-profit development, and not enough city, state and federal housing money.

So, Bertha Lewis of ACORN, Ratner's contracted low-income-housing supporter, could be expected to criticize Ratner's fast-and-loose housing promises to low-income Brooklynites. And indeed, she is expected to criticize it, given her long track record of criticizing pie-in-the-sky schemes aimed at her constituency. But...did we mention the contracted part? Her contract sez she can't criticize Ratner.

That's a might toothless for someone who's career has involved roaring.

* On the other hand, respect to Hakeem Jeffries, the AY footprint's State Assemblymember. Jeffries has been a fence sitter on AY, saying enough good things to get elected but still supporting the project. Earlier this summer, though, Jeffries joined State Senator Vel Montgomery in attacking the sweetheart 421-A reform bill that sailed through Albany -- the one that created more opportunities for low-income housing while at the same time gave Ratner, incredibly, a plum worth another $300 million in public money bailouts.

We've had our disagreements with Assemblymember Jeffries, but here, he's done the right and profound thing, and we say thanks.