Baseball Thread 5 - #5 George Brett Has a Story to Tell

This is worse than Cyndi Lauper's version of the National Anthem on The Simpsons.

 

And there is is, in a commercial.

 

I think I have finally seen something worse than that thing Jeff Bagwell had one season. I happened to meet him when he had it. I was dying to tell him that Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart wanted his goatee back, but it wouldn't have been appropriate to the setting.

 

I have only two words for you, A_QB: Sammy Sosa

 

Buck just said "lightning-fast All-Star Game."

This game will now go until midnight.

 

Producers of The Hangover could've substituted "can't masterbate on a plane" with "the need to put God Bless America in the middle of a baseball game" as and have a similar effect.

Thanks Bin Laden.

 

Did Buck really just jinx this thing? A "lightning fast All-Star Game" when we're tied in the 7th? East Coast, get your filler copy ready.

 

"It's all about the Roosevelts."

 

I'm officially rooting for a tie.

 

Yep because everyone is talking about it. Great work by their creative team.

 

Found this perspective from Willie Mays on AP. Hard to believe The Say Hey Kid gets emotional about anything, but I guess I was wrong.

(AP) Baseball legend Willie Mays says he was so proud the night Barack Obama was elected president that he "cried for most of the night."
The 78-year-old Hall of Fame centerfielder spoke with reporters as he flew with Obama from Michigan to St. Louis for Tuesday night's All-Star game.
Obama threw out the ceremonial first pitch.
Mays, who played much of his career with the San Francisco Giants, said he met Obama in Chicago on election night last November. He said he reminded Obama that he had dreamed about the day when someone of their race would be elected president.
Mays and many others began playing pro baseball when segregation was still widespread.
Filled with pride on the night of a historic election that made Obama the nation's first black president, Mays said he stayed up until 7 or 8 o'clock the next morning.
"I reminded him that I cried for most of the night in Chicago," said Mays, still emotional as he spoke about that night eight months ago.
"So that tells me all the things I went through, it was for good things," said Mays, who wore an orange-trimmed, black Giants baseball cap with his suit. "So I'm just proud of him, you know. He may be proud of something else. But I'm proud of him, what he stands for."