2008 MLB All-Star Game Thread

indeed bud, indeed.

 

um, never said anything about the sox...just disagreeing on your pick. Have I ever made a play as to why Drew should be named? I'm just saying that Young is not an MVP for making the second out of the 15th.

 

Not sure, but every word that came out of Buck's mouth is touched with self-importance.

 

however you want to cover yourself spike go ahead. it's a free country.

 

Drew deserved it more than anybody (NL: Tejada did.)

But without a clear winner, I have no problem giving it to Young for the GWRBI there.

 

Don't know if this was touched on and there's no way in 8 hells that I'll read through every page of the thread to find out, but I've an idea for a contingency plan should this happen again and they run out of pitchers.

Pick two hot-shot Triple-A pitchers for each team -- one from the IL, one from the PCL. If the game gets to the 14th inning, the Triple-A guys go in and pitch like it's a regular start. Sure, it fucks up the minor league team's rotation, but too fucking suck my ass bad. Minor leagues teams don't exist to win minor league titles. It gives the pitchers a look at a big-game experience and saves the big-team arms.

 

He came off as rooting for a fucking tie. There was interesting play after interesting play, but he only seemed interested in the specter of a tie.

Go do Access Hollywood or something, Joe. Take Schulman and Campbell out of the radio booth and put them in there. Anything.

 

For a while, I thought Uggla might be the MVP ... for all the wrong reasons.

 

Neither am I, obviously. I wish he'd gotten hit with batteries during his rookie year. But you've got to be objective about this. You've got a good point, 'Gola. But Young was 1-for-4 with a couple strikeouts, while Drew had two hits, two RBIs -- the game-tying run -- and reached base four times. No one else in the game reached base four times.

 

i like that idea. i didn't read all 45 pages either but i don't think anyone else suggested
that. the IL and PCL are mixed though (each has NL and AL teams).

 

Same here. He was fun to watch.

 

Nah. I say too bad if it fucks up the major league teams rotation.

The whole rotation thing is so overblown anyway. EVERY non-All-Star pitcher coming out of the All-Star break is fresh, especially since Thursday has become a fourth off day for most teams. So an All-Star pitcher has to push his start back a day, big fucking deal. Treat the All-Star Game with respect.

Of course if dipshits like Francona wouldn't try to get everyone to play, we wouldn't be having this conversation.