All-Star Game?

[Benjamin Grimm]

="Edgy DC"] As you say, more baseball beats less baseball. We just have to find a way to make the All-Star Game --- excuse me, All-Star Series --- look like baseball again.

You may be right. I wouldn't watch anyway, but you can't go by me. After all, I don't watch the World Series either, and those games certainly do count.

[G-Fafif]

Edgy DC wrote: We'll get our vactions in without worrying about missing ball.

This is at odds with just about every summer vacation plan of mine revolving around visiting a major league ballpark.

[metirish]

Willie Mays will be honored before the game with a televised tribute ,that will be worth tuning into .

[G-Fafif]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: For a few years in the 1960's there were two. I'm not aware of the exact reasons why they decided to do that, nor why they decided to abandon the idea so quickly.

1959-1962 had two each to beef up the pension pool. It began to lose its luster so they scaled back.

[G-Fafif]

My interest in the 2007 All-Star Game is higher in anticipation of it than it will be while it is taking place. It's one of those events that I get excited about until it's actually going on, but I usually stick with it, albeit with not a little flipping (the remote, not the bird, save for when Jeter is being endlessly and nauseatingly sucked up to). I was one of those kids who lived for the introductions and the insertion of the token Met and I guess I still am at heart. If the fans as a whole are thoughtful enough to put three of our boys in the lineup, I sure as hell will be there to cheer them on.

[Guest Edgy DC]

G-Fafif wrote: ="Edgy DC"]We'll get our vactions in without worrying about missing ball. This is at odds with just about every summer vacation plan of mine revolving around visiting a major league ballpark.

A fine tribute to Mrs. Fafif.

Some of us are so lucky only in part.

[G-Fafif]

Edgy DC wrote: A fine tribute to Mrs. Fafif.

Thus my recurring chants of "MVP!" when she walks into the room.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

]I was one of those kids who lived for the introductions and the insertion of the token Met and I guess I still am at heart.

My hi-lite reel is full of that play too.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I was too when I was a kid. I LOVED it that Lee Mazzilli hit a homer in the All-Star game.

On the other hand, I had forgotten until today that David Wright hit one last year.

In so many ways I'm not the fan I used to be.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Sure, but the game ain't what it used to be. Plus we didn't need that Wright homer for our self-respect nearly as much as we needed that Mazzilli homer. In the same way that Henderson game stands out today in a greater way than a similar walkoff from 2005.

But sure, that which hits you when you're a kid stays with you.

[Batty31]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I was too when I was a kid. I LOVED it that Lee Mazzilli hit a homer in the All-Star game. On the other hand, I had forgotten until today that David Wright hit one last year. In so many ways I'm not the fan I used to be.

I have fond memories of the Mazzilli HR...and it happened on my birthday which made it even more magical for me. One of my fondest Met memories from my youth. When I was a kid I looked forward to every All Star Game. Now I tune in for maybe an hour at the most. It's really sad to see how much the All Star Game has lost its meaning.

[Centerfield]

I loved it as a kid. And I think part of the reason was the chance to see players from the AL that I never got a chance to watch. This was before Sportscenter, and MLB Extra Innings, and interleague play. I remember rooting very hard for Gooden to mow down the AL in '86 and being very disappointed he got the loss. With all the good that happened that year, I felt like Gooden let me down a lot that year. I guess it was a harbinger of things to come.

When Piazza was the on the team, I remember watching to make sure he didn't get hurt and turning it off the minute he was subbed out. Last year, with a very Met-ly team, was the first time I watched the whole game since the 80's.

I might catch some of it tonight. Or I might not.

[stevejrogers]

I have a Journalism class tonight "Freelancing, For Fun And Profit" but I am Tivo-ing it, mostly just to see the introductions and fastforward to the Metly actions. Hopefully Reyes (well all of the guys) make it out without any injuries =

[stevejrogers]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Check out the FanFest when it comes to New York in a couple years. It's a lot of fun.

I don't know how the recent Chicago ones have been, but there had better be Met representation and its not all Yankee-centric next year. I will go to that, but staying far away from the game, derby, futures game, ect.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I think I've mentioned before that I was a volunteer woker bee at Fan Fest 96 (?) in Philadelphia. Worked one of the booths where kids pitched to a video image of a batter, got insanely sick from coming into contact with 4,000 little kids an hour.

There was no pay nor free tix to the ASG. Well, I think there was a lottery of workers where one or two could win tixx IIRC.