Posts Tagged ‘All-Star Game’
Major League Baseball’s All-Star game was last night and one of the big plot-lines coming in was whether President Obama would throw a good opening pitch. Okay, it was a lame plot-line, but, really, all-star games are rather boring. His pitch? Well, he made it to the plate in the air, allegedly.
Why allegedly? Why is controversy about this ensuing as if this post was guest-written by Sean Hannity? Well, Pujols, who was receiving the pitch, had to reach forward quite a bit to prevent the ball from bouncing its way up there.
As for the rest of the All-Star game? Short. Two and a half hours. The pregame stuff went about 50 minutes, so, yeah, this thing rolled along. Not too much offense, some good defense, some bad defense. Not too much to it. Carl Crawford, he of the mentioned good defense, got the MVP of the game award for robbing Brad Hawpe of a home run with some slick glove work.
Let’s get back to some real baseball. Some of us have fantasy leagues to lose.
This man is a vegetarian. You explain it.
Instead, Albert Pujols barely made it out of the first round. The big show of the night went to Prince Fielder and Nelson Cruz, who were the only guys to hit double digits in any round of the event, with Fielder winning.
The best moment was probably when Brandon Inge hit ZERO homeruns. An impressive performance by the Tigers third baseman. I can’t remember that ever being done in the Derby, but that just means my memory sucks because like four guys have done that in the past ten years. Allegedly.
The Derby can be summed up in entertainment value by the fact that when the celebrity softball game eventually came on after the Derby, I was more entertained by the way Nelly caught a pop-fly than anything in the Derby.