IGT All-Star Game 7/10/07

[Guest Edgy DC]

Get it out of your system now, Billy.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Buck keeps saying nine straight wins for the AL. A tie is not a win.

It's like when they were saying the Braves had 14 division titles -- unless you count 1994....

[Frayed Knot]

I hate losing to these communist bastards.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

LaRussa sends the Meat up there instead of Pujols?

[Guest Edgy DC]

N L !
N L !
N L !
N L !

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

BRING IN PUJOLS!!!!

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Stinking Phillies kill us every time.

[Guest Edgy DC]

They blew their horns, and NL goes down.

I don't believe there are any Red Sox

And there ain't no Yanks

There's just Guillen's White Sox

Playing with Jenks.

[stevejrogers]

I wonder if Ichiro had a party or something to go to?

What a "teammate" getting changed while the game was still going on!

[Gwreck]

No excuse for keeping Pujols on the bench. Aaron Rowand? C'mon.

[Gwreck]

Apparently Albert Pujols ducked out of the game, Sammy Sosa-style, and wasn't even available to use a PH if they wanted to.* Asshole.

*Source: WFAN.

[Zvon]

Totally enjoyed the game

Reyes, Wright and Beltran all did something to contribute.
Reyes's excellent lead off batting, Wrights glove, Beltraan with the Triboom©

If we (the national league) won, Reyes would have been MVP.

....and so it goes.

[bmfc1]

Pujols is mad at LaRussa for not playing him. Rob Neyer has a good blog entry today blasting LaRussa for this decision. I didn't think it was possible to dislike LaRussa more, yet I do!

(G-Faif's POTG entry is outstanding.)

[metirish]

seawolf17 wrote: Me: "I wonder how they chose Reyes to catch the first pitch." Ms Wolf: "He won the raffle."

Center fielder throwing to his short stop,I think that's what they were going for.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

metirish - "Center fielder throwing to his short stop,I think that's what they were going for."

That's how I thought of it too. Willie hit his cutoff man perfectly.

[bmfc1]

As argued eloquently in the latest edition of "Faith & Fear", it was a passing of the torch from one NY great to another. A brilliant, moving moment.

But given that this is MLB, it also could have been a coincidence because Reyes was batting first.

[metirish]

bmfc1 wrote: Pujols is mad at LaRussa for not playing him. Rob Neyer has a good blog entry today blasting LaRussa for this decision. I didn't think it was possible to dislike LaRussa more, yet I do! (G-Faif's POTG entry is outstanding.)

]"I don't know; somebody go ask him," said Pujols when asked why he wasn't used. "Maybe he wanted to play the other guys. Maybe he didn't want to leave other guys out. Maybe if he would have played me and left other guys out, maybe they would have said, 'Why did he play Albert and not the other guy?'"

Even though we lost I thoroughly enjoyed this game.

[bmfc1]

The upside to the NL's loss is the almost universal slamming of LaRussa. At Deadspin, Cardinals fan Will Leitch rips him. On FAN, Russo said "only Tony LaRussa can screw up an all-star game" and it was a "Christmas present" from LaRussa to Leyland. And even the dopey Cardinals fans are ripping him: at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch message board, a majority of the posters think he screwed up. Nice to see LaRussa exposed.

[metirish]

I'll give LaRussa credit for leaving Reyes in longer than any player,giving every chance at an MVP if things had worked differently,still not hitting Pujols was criminal.