All Star Game/Home Run Derby Open Thread
by Texy
2008 July 15 at 6:14 pm
Anyone else out there weirdly excited about the prospect of the Home Run Derby and All Star Game, despite all logic and reason? Yeah, me, too.
We can all use this thread tonight and tomorrow as an open thread to talk about all the festivities going on at Yankee Stadium.
How do we fill our nights now with no baseball until Friday
With alcohol and empty, meaningless sex.
DREWWWWW
Yay — more of our guys are in!
you have to love it. take two Red Sox players out, put two more back in. SUCK IT NEW YORK
I still can’t believe Tek is in there. Though I do like having him behind the plate.
so someone is going to visit it me then ;)
Sounds like someone’s been reading my diary.
Ian…with blogging and catching up on e-mails and house chores. Although Texy’s answer sounds like a lot more fun.
I flipped the channel, and Tek is in now. Yeah.
what that you’re coming to visit me fc ;)
This is starting to aggravate me. Because it could cost us something. Which is asinine.
You mean… like another run?
It’s not like Tito has a bullpen full of ace pitchers or anything.
Triple-A All-Star Game is tomorrow night at 7 PM on ESPN2
Okay this inning is pissing me off
Phew! Dodged that baseball-less night bullet.
That decision to bat Bacon last year instead of Pujols is looking better and better by the second.
And by “better” I mean “stupider”.
Tito should bring Mariano in now to keep the score close
I don’t know that many AAA players. But at least it’s baseball.
Hey look, an out!
…that’s something I normally only say in Daisuke starts. Yikes.
It’d be awesome if Tatboy McHeroincrack would knock just 1/28th of his tater production from last night’s first round.
Joe Thurston, Jeff Bailey, Chris Carter and Jonathan Van Every will be there for the PawSox. Charlie Zink was also elected to the team but won’t be there because they told him his services weren’t need since he pitched on Sunday.
Ouch! That’s harsh!
another inning from Haren. This is different
Tatboy McHeroincrack? HA.
And yeah, I’m psyched for the AAA ASG. Possibly more so than this one. (I mean, really–Thurston, Bailey, Carter, and Van Every all on my TV at the same time!)
You’re right, fc.
TatMAN McHeroincrack
I read Zink was disabled.
that was Michael Bowden
yawn to the all star game. I’m waiting for the Varitek pitch hit home run
From the ProJo:
In the No-Good-Deed-Goes-Unpunished Dept., knuckleballer Charlie Zink was the beneficiary of the PawSox
Can’t be a pinch hit HR – he was defensively subbed in already.
welll it will be his first AB. You get the idea
looks like Papelbuns in the 8th
CAR-LOS QUEN-TIN!
My bet?
Nathan – 7th
Paps – 8th
Rivera – 9th
Clearly George Sherrill is coming in for the 9th
How loud will the boos for Papelbon be, on a scale of 1-10? I’d say 37.
My man warming up. That was a good view. Now I just need a close up of Tek.
scale of 1-10. i’m going 50
I’m surprised Tek wasn’t given special catching gear
Paps is getting the John Rocker treatment!
Oh, one of my favorite singers.
Josh Grobin??? Come on they could have done better
You’re both wrong. On a scale of 1-10: cinqo ocho.
I feel a cavity forming.
Oh, yay. Josh Groban. I wish they’d gotten Michael Buble and and John Mayer, and then they’d have had the Trinity of Sappy Suck.
Oh, I love Groban. At least they didn’t get some pop princess who can’t sing to save their life.
You mean like Sheryl Crow?
Papsicle is gonna get booed so intensely. I already feel bad for him.
I love Josh Groban’s voice.
By the way, TG–Papelbaby is due New Years Day!
My mom hates Josh Groban. She jokes that shes given birth in less time than it takes for him to sing a song