All Star Game Live Thread (Will he reach the plate?)

vanity | 7/14/09 | Captron

[CaptRon]

For those who are baseball fans.

[lysie]

Wow! Good to see you!

[EyeGuy]

“.....Pujols just slaughtered pitches right at infielders.”

Albert gets better as the game goes on and it never matters whether you have two strikes on him or not.

[CaptRon]

I didn’t open it. It’s always there!

[cripplecreek]

Nothing worse than watching AL pitchers at bat.

[Rodney Dangerfield]

They didn’t raise the hoop, they widened the Key due to Wilt’s dominance.

[Babalu]

Oh no ... I wasn’t referring to you. Sorry if you got that impression.

[llevrok]

Albert gets better as the game goes on

So they shouldn't have started him until the third inning! ;-)

[EyeGuy]

St. Louisan Joe Buck and former Cardinal Tim McCarver (once from Memphis, but now just another New York media kiss-ass), gushing over the apparent idiot-from-the-Orient Ichiro’s starstruck encounter with Zero.

Utterly disgusting

[CaptRon]

The Red’s use their pitcher Micah Owings as a pinch hitter. Rick Ankiel, a former pitcher for the Cards, is now an outfielder. Ya never know, which is what makes the NL game better.

[darkangel82]

Oh, great. Here’s Zero. Spew.

[CaptRon]

No prob

[yield 2 the right]

Obama is in the booth, TV turned off for a awhile...

[RoadKingSE]

Baseball? It's a game for a bunch of pu$$ies that couldn't make the lacrosse team.

[Babalu]

And now they have him up in the booth. Thank goodness for mute buttons.

[EyeGuy]

Ha, he is also good at the beginning of the game. That error was highly uncharacteristic.

[darkangel82]

He reminds me of Kerry saying his favorite Red Sox player was Manny Ortiz.

[pvoce]

Turned the tv down....

[krykel]

Same here. Though I will admit that I have it on just to see King Hussein on a Fox channel.

[John W]

Reply, 60 footer if that.

[OldDeckHand]

"Today, all these guys working out off-season end up on the DL! What up wit dat?"

I don't pretend to have any knowledge of the inner-workings of modern day baseball. But, if I had to guess, it comes down to one word, money. Gibson probably never made $200K in a single season, while some of these pitchers make that per outing. I'd assume it's a combination of the player protecting his future, and management protecting their investment. But, I could be all wet.