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Certainly the best one I can recall as of late. Got everything I wanted: RBI production from Delgado & Wells, no innings from Halladay and an AL victory (just in case). I thought Scioscia did a pretty good job with his bench, too.

(Can anyone find a box score? msn.disney.abc.espn.go.com isn't coming up and cnnsi.com -- shit, it may have one, but I had to click off literally five popups so who knows.)

Yeah, it was a good game... Sure, there may be questions about the merit of deciding World Series HFA in the All-Star game, but fuckit. At least it made the game interesting. Notice how many of the AL starters got in a good three at bats? That definitely hearkens back to the old-skool All Star games.

What I didn't like, though, were the many players spewing the obvious Union-sponsored line, "Dah... 'This time it counts?' It's not like we didn't care before." Or steroid-addled retahds like Nomah making ridiculous comments like (paraphrasing) "Why are they concerned about getting more of an audience? It's not like the All-Star Games never sell out."

Though I'm a bit of a purist (purist being defined as: "Averse to any change of the rules that have existed since I was born [caveat: I love the DH]), I really don't think it's in the players' best interests to dunderheadedly question anything that's putting more asses in the seats and in front of the teevee to watch them (the players) continue to make exorbitant amounts of money.

Stupid schlubs.

Ahh... so YOU are the one who watched the all-star game. I knew someone must've.

Let me guess: because only four Yankees went rather than Torre's usual nine, you are under the impression that nobody tuned in, ala the Stanley Cup finals?

I detest All-Star games. It has nothing to do with the number of participants from my favourite team. They're just BAD.

Why do you hate America?

"Da King" also follows Notre Dame, Intel, goatse.cx and the Montreal Canadians. FOLLOW AN UNDERDOG ONCE IN A WHILE!

I do not hate America. (OK, I hate America's LEADER right now... but the concept of the "USA", I have no problems with).

I DO hate baseball. I am a Yankees fan, but I still detest a sport where one teams salary tax number ($180 million) can be 50% higher than the 2nd highest (the Mets, I believe, at $120 million). Its horrid that they allow a team to "runaway" like that. I hate everything that baseball stands for.

Football has the perfect setup.

I'm hoping that, when they cancel the 2004-05 NHL season, that they make some reasonable changes to that sport also. I dont want to see hockey become anywhere near as lopsided as baseball is.

To summarize... I hate baseball.

And W.

Da King wrote:I DO hate baseball. I am a Yankees fan, but I still detest a sport where one teams salary tax number ($180 million) can be 50% higher than the 2nd highest (the Mets, I believe, at $120 million). Its horrid that they allow a team to "runaway" like that. I hate everything that baseball stands for.

Best Yankees fan ever.

Football has the perfect setup

A man after my own heart.

I'm hoping that, when they cancel the 2004-05 NHL season, that they make some reasonable changes to that sport also. I dont want to see hockey become anywhere near as lopsided as baseball is.

The NHLPA will never accept that just possibly hockey players won't get paid as much as baseball players. It'll probably end up killing the sport.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:The NHLPA will never accept that just possibly hockey players won't get paid as much as baseball players. It'll probably end up killing the sport.

Well hey... at least we'll have the WHA back in action next year, with Bobby Hull as commissioner. It'll be a complete cluster fuck for a year or two... but we WILL have hockey.

And rumour has it that the minor leagues will NOT be affected if there is a strike or lockout. At least I'll have Amerks games to entertain myself.

Da King wrote:At least I'll have Amerks games to entertain myself.

I may be drunk right now, but tomorrow I'll be sober and you'll still be ugly!