All-Star game IGT

[Fman99]

I would love to see ol pool murder boy blow the save in the 9th here. That'd be mint.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

So two of the three Mets get in the game. Screw you, Bob Klapisch!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

NICE change, Frankie.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well I certainly agree would have been a better strategemery to go to a high average guy there. But waddayagonnado?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Hmm. Not a half-bad catch by Werth.

Frankie says "Sit down! One-two-three."

[Gwreck]

Easy play made to look hard, Jim Edmonds style.

(We are in StL, after all).

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Okay, so I'll shut up for a minute about Werth.

Until he strikes out with men on right here.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Six pitches by Rodriguez.

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's over, Mariano.

[Piggiestomatoes]

Edgy DC wrote: Six pitches by Rodriguez.

Why can't he do that in the regular season?

[Fman99]

Oh good, the Rivera cock-suck-a-thon has commenced. Yes, we know. Saves. Got it.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Gwreck wrote: Easy play made to look hard, Jim Edmonds style. (We are in StL, after all).

Edmonds begins the fake stagger three strides from the ball, then goes into the splayed layout, concluding Act I with the full face plant into the fence. After a brief intermission he continues with the tortured rollover, gamely tosses the ball to the left fielder, and then transitions into the death scene from Brian's Song.

[Fman99]

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Swan Swan H wrote: ="Gwreck"]Easy play made to look hard, Jim Edmonds style. (We are in StL, after all). Edmonds begins the fake stagger three strides from the ball, then goes into the splayed layout, concluding Act I with the full face plant into the fence. After a brief intermission he continues with the tortured rollover, gamely tosses the ball to the left fielder, and then transitions into the death scene from Brian's Song.

Badass!

The Brian's Song reference makes it perfect.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Swan Swan H wrote: ="Gwreck"]Easy play made to look hard, Jim Edmonds style. (We are in StL, after all). Edmonds begins the fake stagger three strides from the ball, then goes into the splayed layout, concluding Act I with the full face plant into the fence. After a brief intermission he continues with the tortured rollover, gamely tosses the ball to the left fielder, and then transitions into the death scene from Brian's Song.

Reggie Sanders = Gale Sayers?

[Gwreck]

We should have had Braun, Ibanez and Wright up here.

Instead we get Upton, Hawpe and Tejada.

Good managing, Charlie.

[Fman99]

Nice of the NL squad to do their Metliest, and lay down over the last several innings on their way to a loss.

Fuck.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Thank you, Heath Freaking Bell.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Bell.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Gotta give Granderson the MVP. And he's a good guy, as far as American Leaguers go.

[Gwreck]

How many more years of this shit before somebody wakes up and says Ramirez, Utley, Wright, Pujols, Braun -- aren't they the best players at their position in the league? So maybe I don't take them out for substitutes as soon as possible?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Eight. Eight more years.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Crawford gets it for a catch???

[Gwreck]

I'd have given it to Granderson, I guess.

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I think maybe minds will change once the homefield advantage comes into play. When's the last time a World Series went more than 5 games? 2003?

[Willets Point]

All this means is that when the Mets sweep the Series, they'll win it at Citi Field.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Is it me, or is FOX overdosing on the Obama thing? It's not like the president doesn't throw out the first pitch at games from time-to-time. It's been a part of almost every interview.

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's not like FOX has a history of a pro-Obama agenda.

[G-Fafif]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Is it me, or is FOX overdosing on the Obama thing? It's not like the president doesn't throw out the first pitch at games from time-to-time. It's been a part of almost every interview.

For someone who loves the presidency as much as he loves baseball, I thought you might enjoy the saturation coverage.

Loved the White Sox jacket. Not the Cardinals, not an All-Star logo. Stay true to your school.

Costas did one-on-one with Prez that aired on MLB Network after the game. Brilliant stuff. Learned that when in HS, Obama's HS team played basketball vs. the Reds when they came to Hawaii for Superteams competition. (Johnny Bench: nice guy, but they played to win.)

I think I would have considered that the high point of my career and coasted from there. But that's what separates the politicians/overachievers from the rest of us.

[nymr83]

]Loved the White Sox jacket. Not the Cardinals, not an All-Star logo.

I'm sure he could have borrowed a Cardinals jacket from Hillary if he'd wanted one, she still has all 30 teams from her campaign.

[G-Fafif]

Nymr83 wrote: ]Loved the White Sox jacket. Not the Cardinals, not an All-Star logo. I'm sure he could have borrowed a Cardinals jacket from Hillary if he'd wanted one, she still has all 30 teams from her campaign.

Which has what to do with what, exactly?