<p>I’m actually excited about this year’s All-Star Game. :)</p>
<p>We’re sitting here now watching the game. I just love to see the old-timers and hear their stories. There was so much history out there on the field before the game. It was wonderful.</p>
<p>I thought the pre-game show was simply wonderful!</p>
<p>I disagree. It used to be the fans who chose who plays in the All Star Game. But ever since the players got 50% of the say-so on who plays the event, the game has lost 100% of its luster. It’s politics now and I won’t be watching.</p>
<p>That’s OK. Woody, youdontsay, and I will gleefully be watching.</p>
<p>I also thought the pregame show was great. I love seeing the old-timers. And I loved not seeing Barry Bonds.</p>
<p>My son is angry that Ian Kinsler didn’t start at 2nd. Pity us poor Rangers fans. We get so little to cheer about. Four of our guys making the team, including feel-good story Josh Hamilton, is a miracle. And now Michael Young is in at shortstop!</p>
<p>I didn’t know anything about the Hamilton story until the All-Star game (we’re NYers and big Yankee fans). The kid is lucky to be alive. It’s a good story for kids to hear. </p>
<p>Itchiro has some incredible arm. I’m not a baseball fanatic, but being a mom of two boys who played ball from kindergarten through high school, I can appreciate the skills these players have and the work (and luck) it takes for them to play at the major league level. </p>
<p>Oh no–Josh Groban singing. Not my favorite.</p>
<p>Pity the rangers fan??</p>
<p>have some mercy for the Mariners fans :(</p>
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<p>I would actually prefer the players pick 100% of the rosters; not the fans. THAT would be fair. A player wouldn’t get in just because he is located in a huge city; he’d get in because he’s a good baseball player!</p>
<p>Oh, chipmoney, at least you’ve won a World Series. We’ve never gotten out of the first round of the playoffs! Sorry, no sympathy.</p>
<p>Way to go, AL! Tied it up.</p>
<p>What are you talking about?!!? We’ve never been to world series. AL chamionship yes, WS no :(</p>
<p>31 years and counting too…</p>
<p>Oops, sorry. Son told me wrong. Here is the list of everyone who hasn’t won a World Series:</p>
<p>World Series Facts
Teams that have never won a World Series:</p>
<p>Brooklyn Robins, Colorado Rockies, Houston Astros, Houston Colt .45s, Kansas City Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers, Montreal Expos, Seattle Mariners, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants, Seattle Pilots, St. Louis Browns, Washington Nationals.</p>
<p>Too late for some of these guys!</p>
<p>ok… I don’t care who wins at this point. Can it please be over?</p>
<p>^ i agree. the announcers are sofa king annoying! </p>
<p>“this one counts”
“they can’t put in Kazmir blah blah”
“they should put the hall of famers in HAHA”
“well this is the second 7th inning stretch”</p>
<p>14 innings so far–I can’t stay up to watch it any longer. That poor Uggly (spelling?) guy is having an awful time of it in the field. I wonder if it’s going to come down to a walk off homerun. Oh well, I can’t keep my eyes open any longer to see the ending. I’ll have to catch the recap tomorrow morning.</p>
<p>Oh my goodness–that Uggly? guy just struck out again!</p>
<p>OK, it JUST ended. j/k</p>
<p>I stayed up for the whole d.amn thing. Amazing baseball. Bases loaded and no outs, and the AL still couldn’t get a run in. ARGH. But Young’s sac fly made this Ranger fan proud.</p>
<p>I am so tired this morning.</p>
<p>Oh, and ds1 and I felt so sorry for Uggla, especially when the announcers were making such a big deal of his dad’s wish to see him play in Yankee Stadium. Way to kick him when he’s down!</p>
<p>Classy Yankee fans too… booing Jonathan Papelbon, because the NY Post decided to only quote HALF of his 50 minute interview - the half where he said that normally the guy who closed the World Series would also close the next year’s All Star Game. They conveniently left out the rest of the interview where he said he had a ton of respect for Mariano Rivera, and that Rivera would be closing this game and that he had no problem with that. </p>
<p>Good old classy Yankee fans, boo’d and threw things at Papelbon’s truck in the parade, made his pregnant wife feel really unsafe. Then they chanted “over-rated” while he’s trying to hold on to the win for the AL. But the best part - NY’s self-centered INSISTANCE that Rivera close the game meant that Francona felt obligated to use Rivera in the 9th inning, thus wasting a pitcher who would have been a lot more valuable in the 12th or 13th inning.</p>
<p>Yeah, Yankee fans. That’s just a class act all the way around.</p>