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The 81st Major League Baseball All-Star Game

  • Mooney44Cards
    Coverage starts tonight at 8pm on FOX, which probably means first pitch is around like 8:45 knowing them.

    I'd really like to see the National League win it for once, but I'm not 100% worried about it.

    Since Joey Votto seems to be hitting everything this year, hopefully he's hitting this:

  • Ironman92
    My wife bought me the all-star game t--shirt and those sweet batting practice hats that Votto is wearing

    This is my 28th all-star game...my first one all I remember is is Fred Lynn hitting the first grand slam in all-star game history off of Atlee Hammaker of the Giants.....I think the next year Reggie Jackson made the all-star team batting .191

    I put most of my vbucks on the AL in hopes that my typical luck backfires and the NL finds a way
  • Ironman92
    not a lot of things make Votto smile
  • wildcats20
    Mooney44Cards;422077 wrote:Coverage starts tonight at 8pm on FOX, which probably means first pitch is around like 8:45 knowing them.

    Yeah, it's now 8:30 and still no pitch; but we've got some random ass performance.
  • BigAppleBuckeye
    In a National League with no truly dominant team, I think both Reds fans (most of you) and Mets fans (well, me ... what happened to Natron?!) will be rooting hard for the NL today, as both have a "shot" at the World Series this season. Whether or not its a great shot is another story ...
  • ou1980
    I turned on a baseball game, what I got was Hollywood celebrities telling me I should act like these people selected from People Magazine...
  • SportsAndLady
    I'm pretty sure it's delayed and that's why there are concerts right now...that is a complete guess though
  • Jughead
    Right. What the hell did that last song have to do with the All-Star game or baseball at all?

    BTW, I'm not talking about the National Anthem.
  • karen lotz
    SportsAndLady;422755 wrote:I'm pretty sure it's delayed and that's why there are concerts right now...that is a complete guess though


    what?
  • SportsAndLady
    karen lotz;422760 wrote:what?

    Idk..i'm really high
  • karen lotz
    lol
  • BigAppleBuckeye
    This pregame show is absolutely brutal. I am trying to think if the pregame show has always sucked balls, and my childhood prevented me from judging the festivities properly. I used to love this shit! Now I just want to give Buck and McCarver a blanket party Full-Metal-Jacket style.
  • Sonofanump
    Rod Carew still has it. Nice heat.
  • BigAppleBuckeye
    Sonofanump;422767 wrote:Rod Carew still has it. Nice heat.

    Who's the better Jewish player? Carew or Ryan Braun? (compare Carew's prime to Braun now)
  • justincredible
    BigAppleBuckeye;422753 wrote:In a National League with no truly dominant team, I think both Reds fans (most of you) and Mets fans (well, me ... what happened to Natron?!) will be rooting hard for the NL today, as both have a "shot" at the World Series this season. Whether or not its a great shot is another story ...

    Indeed.
  • justincredible
    8:50 first pitch. Too damn late.
  • wildcats20
    Still have to laugh at old commish and the tie.
  • Sonofanump
    BigAppleBuckeye;422771 wrote:Who's the better Jewish player? Carew or Ryan Braun? (compare Carew's prime to Braun now)

    You mean behind Koufax. I think Carew was better, alot put up the stats that Braun does now. Brett, and later Gwynn and Boggs are the only other ones in Carews class for hitting.
  • wildcats20
    Nice play by Ichiro on the rocket shot from Phat Albert
  • BigAppleBuckeye
    Sonofanump;422783 wrote:You mean behind Koufax. I think Carew was better, alot put up the stats that Braun does now. Brett, and later Gwynn and Boggs are the only other ones in Carews class for hitting.

    Agreed that Coufax was the best, just thought a comparison between two hitters was more relevant. Fast forward 4-5 years, I think Ike Davis will have his say as well!
  • Sonofanump
    BigAppleBuckeye;422788 wrote:Agreed that Coufax was the best, just thought a comparison between two hitters was more relevant. Fast forward 4-5 years, I think Ike Davis will have his say as well!

    Wait what?.......

    Carew has never formally converted to Judaism. However, he married a Jewish woman, Marilynn Levy,[3] and his children were raised in the Jewish tradition. A chief source propagating the misconception that Carew converted to Judaism is the 1994 song, The Chanukah Song, written and performed by entertainer Adam Sandler, in which he lists famous Jews of the 20th century. He names Carew with these words: "...O.J. Simpson... not a Jew! But guess who is: Hall of Famer Rod Carew — he converted". Sandler has reiterated this mistake in later incarnations of the song.

    Adding to the confusion is an article written in Esquire magazine in 1976. Sportswriter Harry Stein released his "All Time All-Star Argument Starter" article which consisted of five different baseball teams, each based on ethnicity. Carew was erroneously named the second baseman on Stein's All-Jewish team.

    Carew regularly attends Saddleback Church (Rick Warren, pastor, author of The Purpose-Driven Life), which is a Baptist church.
  • wildcats20
    Nice little moment for Jeter there.
  • BigAppleBuckeye
    Sonofanump;422789 wrote:Wait what?.......

    Carew has never formally converted to Judaism. However, he married a Jewish woman, Marilynn Levy,[3] and his children were raised in the Jewish tradition. A chief source propagating the misconception that Carew converted to Judaism is the 1994 song, The Chanukah Song, written and performed by entertainer Adam Sandler, in which he lists famous Jews of the 20th century. He names Carew with these words: "...O.J. Simpson... not a Jew! But guess who is: Hall of Famer Rod Carew — he converted". Sandler has reiterated this mistake in later incarnations of the song.

    Adding to the confusion is an article written in Esquire magazine in 1976. Sportswriter Harry Stein released his "All Time All-Star Argument Starter" article which consisted of five different baseball teams, each based on ethnicity. Carew was erroneously named the second baseman on Stein's All-Jewish team.

    Carew regularly attends Saddleback Church (Rick Warren, pastor, author of The Purpose-Driven Life), which is a Baptist church.

    haha, damn you Adam Sandler! That is EXACTLY why I thought he was Jewish ... my bad!
  • BigAppleBuckeye
    wildcats20;422794 wrote:Nice little moment for Jeter there.

    Pretty sure Bob Sheppard's recorded voice announces every Jeter AB at Yankee Stadium still ... Darby would know.
  • Mohican00
    Shit ^ never knew that