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[Guest Edgy DC]

Action is riveting.

That talking baseball thing leads to an upsurge in hate crimes. I'm sure of it.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wow. How many trees died so Carlos Beltran could be voted into the All-Star Game?

[seawolf17]

7-0 Bad Guys. Yawn.

[Willets Point]

This time it counts, though.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Andruw Jones hits a bomb to left to put the National League on the board.

AL 7 NL 2

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

The drivel has driven me away from the game. I'm watching Mr. G's weather report now, and at 11 I'm catching The Daily Show.

[MFS62]

The most infuriating thing to me (other than the final score) was the Fox graphics.
One of the reasons for the game is to give the fans a chance to see players they might not have seen before or know much about. Buehrle having a great year? Oswalt being compared to Clemens at the same age? Peavy led the league in ERA last year?
Gee, I wonder how hard they throw? And I still don't know, because Fox didn't have radar gun readings displayed on the screen.
The one line graphic under the stats when the player came to bat told us things like "Player X is second in runs scored in the league". But we were never told either how many he has, or who the leader is.

As a fan, I would have liked more information.

Later

[seawolf17]

I agree, 62. The graphics were odd. But to their credit, they left Scooter (or whatever their stupid little CG character is) at home.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Scooter showed up.

[metirish]

I tuned out when they started playing God save the fucking Queen, I knew it was going to be a shit night after that.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I guess you can write that off to peace being arduous.

[seawolf17]

How did I miss God Save The Fucking Queen? I must have slept through that part.

[Guest cooby]

It was before the National Anthem (which for once was very nicely done)

[Guest Edgy DC]

Major-league Ballplayers born in England

George Hall 1871-1877 Stepney

Harry Wright 1871-1877 Sheffield

Sam Jackson 1871-1872 Ripon

Al Reach 1871-1875 London

Dick Higham 1871-1880 ??

Al Thake 1872-1872 Wymondham

Bobby Clack 1874-1876 ??

Ed Cogswell 1879-1882 ??

Tim Manning 1882-1885 Henley-On-Thames

Jim Halpin 1882-1885 ??

Tom Brown 1882-1898 Liverpool

Dennis Fitzgerald 1890-1890 ??

Al Lawson 1890-1890 London

Pete Hasney 1890-1890 ??

Marty Hogan 1894-1895 Wednesbury

Dave Brain 1901-1908 Hereford

Al Shaw 1901-1909 Burslem

Harry Smith 1901-1910 Yorkshire

Ed Walker 1902-1903 Cambois

Walter Carlisle 1908-1908 Yorkshire

Ned Crompton 1909-1910 Liverpool

Klondike Smith 1912-1912 London

Charlie Hanford 1914-1915 Tunstall

Sam White 1919-1919 Greater Preston

Jim Wright 1927-1928 Hyde

Les Rohr 1967-1969 Lowestoft (60 years later!)

Keith Lampard 1969-1970 Warrington

Danny Cox 1983-1995 Northampton

Paul Marak 1990-1990 Lakenheath

Lance Painter 1993-2003 Bedford

Managers Born in England

Harry Wright 1871-1893 Sheffield

Dick Higham 1874-1874 ??

Al Reach 1890-1890 London

Tom Brown 1897-1898 Liverpool

Harry Smith 1909-1909 Yorkshire

[metirish]

Cooby you're right, The National Anthem sounded great last night.

[Willets Point]

Anyone see this ad scam during the game?

[metirish]

thanks for the link WP, that clears that up, I saw it and was wondering why FOX would show it, from the article.

]But their ruse was easily discovered once you realized that Fox would never hold its camera on an unknown website and read the URL on air.

exactly.

[Guest holychicken]

The fact that they showed it and talked about it for so long AND that the sign was obviously not done by hand (because the two H's looked identical) it smelled fishy to me from the start.

Still, I was tempted to go to the website. But out of principle, I resisted.

[seawolf17]

I distinctly remember that (although I wouldn't have been able to remember the name of the page now without seeing that article) during the game. I tried to go to the website right away, as my notebook was right in front of me, but it was mobbed, as the article says. I quickly x'ed out of the window in case it really was some moron promoting their porn site or something.

Low blow by Chevy and Fox.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Lower still by McCarver and Buck to consent.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Yeah. Just revolting to know those guys were in on it, and shame on the producers, chevrolet and mlb to have such little regard for the audience.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Trying to pass off a commercial for Fantastic Four as an alleged preview was also particularly crass. At least it seemed that way until the banner disgrace.

How does McCarver sleep at night?