All-Star Game
I know the All-Star game was on Tuesday, and this is Thursday, but I wanted to post some comments anyway. Now, I have mixed feelings about the all-star game. The fact every team needs a rep and it counts doesn’t make sense to me. Either let managers manage to win, or tell them it doesn’t matter and to have fun. You can’t have both, Bud.
Every all-star game has its flaws. The NBA plays no defense (as if they ever do), the NHL plays their game on a Tuesday afternoon on versus or some crap, and the Pro-Bowl exists. So of the four major sports I would say baseball is the best. I also think the baseball all-star game is the most salvageable. Those comments deserve their own post, though
This years game was actually quite good. The managers managed to win. The game moved at a nice pace (maybe that is because no Red Sox or Yankee starting pitchers got into the game). It was played like a real god-damned baseball game. I hope this has become the norm and not the exception to the rule. Most times I find myself watching something else and flipping back to the all-star game every so often, but this year I was glued to my set. I even watched all the pre-game stuff. Joe Buck is still terrible, and the fact that he fake laughed directly into his mic when Obama told the “we’re out of money” joke was awful. I enjoyed the fact that a) Obama cheered for one team and didn’t wear a generic MLB jacket (even if it is the dastardly white sox) and b) he hated on the Nats. This comes from someone who has never and will never vote democrat in his life. So take your compliments, because those will be the last you ever get from this guy.
The Twins are off today, but start a 9 game west coast road trip starting Friday in Texas. What are the chances that while playing in the brutal heat on Sunday, Mike Redmond suffers heat stroke and goes on the DL? I kind of hope its high, because that is the only way Morales will get any PT behind Mauer. Not that I wish ill will on Redmond, but Morales is just the better player. Simple as that.
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My unequivocal favorite part of the All Star game this year was Tim McCarver complaining that it wasn’t long enough. Are you kidding me? That’s exactly how long a baseball game is SUPPOSED to be. What a worthless excuse for a commentator. “You know what would make this game better? More commercials and downtime. You guys like boring, right?”
Also, go American League.
He is pretty bad. Foxsports doesn’t have too many good employees. Lets run down the list, shall we?
Joe Buck, Tim McCarver, Jayson Whitlock, Ken Rosenthal (who is normally good, but his anti-blogger rant was really out of line), Chris Rose (formerly of best damn sports show, which has been cancelled, best damn indeed), Jeannie Zelasko, Eric Karros, they employ Eric Byrnes when he isn’t playing poorly for his massive paycheck. That is an impressively bad group.
Rosenthal used to be good. I think he jumped the shark not when he railed on some random blogger for speculating about a player, but when THE VERY NEXT THING HE DID was speculate about Halladay, finishing his first report with “when this kind of talk starts, it doesn’t stop until he’s traded.” It must be easy to break news when you fucking create it yourself, eh Rosenthal? I hope Halladay isn’t traded, just to stick it to that arrogant fuckface. Yeah, I went there.
Oh, and I really, really hate Jeannie Zelasko. The Saturday afternoon pregame show should be something worth watching (since they refused to actually show a baseball game). But Zelasko ruins it with her domineering nostrils and bug-eyes and shrill voice and complete lack of knowledge or talent.
I hear you about Morales, but that’s not possible anyway now. The Twins sent Morales down again yesterday and called up the great Kevin Mulvey to provide another bullpen arm. Yet again, the Twins pass over Slama and Delaney, and also send their second best catcher down for the fifteenth time this season. Unbelievable.
I’m aware that Morales was sent down, that is why Redmond needs to go on the DL. Not pull the crap where he is banged up, but not enough to go on the DL.
How bad will Smith look if Mulvey blows? That means three of the four players from the Santana trade are fringe major leaguers at best. Not good, Billy.
Also, Smith was talking about Mulvey’s “role” being as a “long reliever” … do we really need three of those? I mean, isn’t that basically an admission that the rotation is unbelievably bad and ALSO completely punting on the bullpen?
12 pitchers is too many already, but there’s no number of pitchers which makes 3 long relievers acceptable.
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