2008 MLB All Star Game, 7:00 PM CDT

They released the line ups yesterday, I think. If you want to pull the line ups, they are on this page.

Is this live? All the players pulling up.. cause if it is.. don’t they have a game to play? I just saw Derek Jeter in a full suit and I’m pretty sure he has to ground out in 40 minutes.

David Duchovny (big fan of his here) talks about how when he was young you could cut out the back of milk cartons to get free (discount?) tickets to Yankees games so he could never go unless he drank a lot of milk.

I’m at work until 9PM tonight… so I doubt I’ll catch much if any of the game

They are announcing all the hall of famers before the starters.

While a stealth bomber flies overhead… cause.. stealth bombers are cool I guess. Then 4 Yankees Fall of Famers throw out the first pitches to the Yankees All-Stars and Manager Joe Girardi.

38 minutes since the All Star games “started” and it hasn’t actually started. :p

It’s like watching an Astros game!

Hanley Ramirez and Chase Utley both strike out.
Lance Berkman manages to put the ball in play. He flies out. If he had squared up a little bit more on the ball, that could have been a double.

2 strikeouts and Berkman weak fly to center

and not inspiring either (except for Willie McCovey getting out of his wheelchair( (and I thought George Steinbrenner appearance was interesting)

Ichiro flies out.
Jeter bounces one to Utley, which bounces off his glove and into his face. He reaches.
Then Jeter steals a base and Soto almost throws it into centerfield.
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Hamilton strikes out and A-Rod pops out in foul territory.
Soto catches that one, but he slips on a bat near the on deck circle and… well, he doesn’t drop the ball.

Pujols grounds out to third.
Chipper Jones gets a hit!
Holliday grounds out, but advances Chipper.
Bruan strikes out swinging.

Meh.

I’m gullible I know.

In a commercial a ball girl climbs a left field wall in foul territory to make a great catch.

Is that for real? Did it happen in a game? Was it staged by a stunt woman? was it just computer special effects?

girl with a harness against a green screen wall composited with the ballpark

Both walks.

:(

Utley up.

I have this hope that Tejada’s pride is so affected by the All Star game that he will have a big hit and that will get his bat hot again for the second half of the season. I know you could come up with a scenario which is just the opposite…but I prefer to take the optimistic tack.

Come on, Cubs. Stop fucking everything up.

HAHAHAH. Loser. :p

Against a fresh pitcher.

This guy should be worried. He has to come out and face Berkman, Pujols and Chipper.

He is currently being irritating at the sane BCB. He adamantly defends the mighty Cubs over at the Cards blog as well.

It’s like saying Beetlejuice three times.

A close play (which replays show Pujols is safe) at second and Pujols is called out.

Almost got Bradley on the bad throw and then got him with Ye Olde Swipe Tag

Is that we get to see him a lot even when he’s not batting since he’s the first baseman.
:)

NL leads 1-0!!!

Fukudome looks absolutely silly striking out swinging and Soto strikes out on 3. These are some great guys you sent us, Cubs!!

2 on, 1 out.

Lolz! Mr. Choke.

COME ON PUMA!! PUMA TIME!

Sac fly RBI

NL Leads 2-0

NL leads 2-0

No clear MVP front runners here.
Maybe Holliday. He did hit a home run. But then again, he popped out with 2 on. Berkman doesn’t have any hits, but he’s played some nice D and does have an RBI. Hanley Ramirez has been on twice and scored a run.

Each of them are probably finished for the night, i would assume.

Tejada in.

throw two innings each so far. Interesting.

Send us someone good next time. :p

I get home(after listening to the last inning or so on the way home from work) and see the score is 2-0 still.. go change clothes and come back and the game is now 2-2 :(

On the J.D. Drew Home Run and no more Lance Berkman. :(
Top 8th coming up.

Crowd is destroying Papelbon

Thi is thebest Astros have ever looked in the All Star game isn’t it?

Tejada to third

and then reaches 3rd on a bad throw

LOCK AT THAT SHIT MUTHAFUCKA!!!!

He looked like an all star on that

as Tejada scores on a sac fly

the guys on the radio said that the NL had some big offensive numbers, and then stated it was due to a weaker pitching staff than the AL

Send him back to AAA!!

I’m sure that made Volquez’s day.

if a 4.5+ ERA guy is their rep to the allstar game

This is a rewarding all-star game for me.

Oops Wags just gave up the tying run

Thanks a lot mets.
Send us someone good next time.

into the 9th…..............
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And no Berkman.. or Pujols or Chipper…

make him believe its a Brewers game and he’ll send one out

for Mariano to give up the winning run

will stop this game a tie?

Hit into a double play then two uggla-y plays in the field.

Goat is the word.

Thank goodness he handled it

COME ON WE CAN DO IT!

MIGUEL TEJADA !!!!!!!!

Let’s go eleven

WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dedicated to driving in runs right about now..

I just knew when the hit up the middle went through that the game was over

the throw beat him

I thought McClouth took too long to throw but it got there.

NO STOPING THE NL DEFENSE!!!!

COME ON!!

he’s getting 4 wide ones. uggla’s up

Come on!

hope I was the first one w/ that

Send us someone good next time Marlins!

Dammit!

3 outs. :(

Why can’t we hit the damn ball!

Marmol.. Lidge..???

bud selig deserves it for this stupid things about determining home field in the WS

He was sucking all last inning !!!

how in the hell is the cardinals record as good as it is

thought that one might be thru

for the National League?

what are you saving him for?

13th inning. :)
Let’s win this!

got the bloop, now we need the blast

managers should read TCB!

they don’t have any pos. players left on the bench to throw out there as a scrub. it wouldn’t be fair to allow them to re-use a pitcher, and the pitchers probably wouldn’t be able to do it anyway.

so i gotta think this is Sherrill’s game unless it goes at least 2 more innings

:p

has pushed this game into Wednesday!

but I don’t want a Cardinal to win it for us

Marmol will come pitch, I suppose. He was warming up. The Cubs better not lose it for us! >:(

He’s risen to the occasion so far

GOD DAMMIT!

uggla is having the worst night of his life. I’m pretty sure that in the past weeks, there was some story about his dad wanting to see him play in Yankee Stadium and it was some big deal to him.

I’m sure he’d rather forget this night.

wow.

This game makes me think – earlier this season Tejada was running the team in the field. He seemingly controlled pitchers, fielders, everything. Astros were winning.

The last month he’s been nonentity , not only at the plate but in the field.

What happened to his leadership?

He let Drew slide under the tag.

got to that one in time

Tejada’s had a perfect night so far, let’s see if he can continue it.

SO CLOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(

I hope he comes through and is the MVP

He’s got the All Star jitters or something.

ALL STAR MVP!!

Awesome game!

Never vote for him again

who pitched to hamilton last night.

he could probably throw a couple innings.

what about tonight????

I would think the limit is 30 or thereabouts.

hrm… he can go 2 maybe.,

Don’t pick now to blow up.

Nice catch!

:(
There’s the Lidge we all know.

Dammit, he’s going to blow it. Told you this is like an Astros game.

Lidge blow the game

all is right in the world

Lidge blew it.

Wish we could have won it. :( So close….

I just returned from New York on vacation. It was wonderful—went to a Broadway show Saturday, Shea Sunday, Cooperstown Monday, and the ASG on Tuesday.

As someone who was there, I echo many of these sentiments. I thought the pre-game stuff dragged on forever. I did really enjoy seeing all the HOFers, but then, I had just gotten back from Cooperstown that morning (an amazing museum in a great little town) so it was almost like an extension of that part of my trip. I didn’t think Sheryl Crow was all that great, but the timing on the flyover was off so I couldn’t hear the last part of the song anyway. (Josh Groban was fantastic with God Bless America, though.) The in-park announcer was terrible, but apparently he is an older gentleman who’s been there for like 58 years or something. He probably does fine with players he is familiar with.

I asked the friend I was with about the short porch in right field, about why the Yankees don’t get grief about it (someone mentioned that here). Basically, she said because the Yankees are a historic franchise and the Astros are just lame (but she’s a Cardinals’ fan, so what do you expect). Stupid Yankees.

I thought Miggy looked like the Miggy of May (okay, maybe not quite May-strong at the plate, but overall a great game). Berkman looked decent too, so I felt like our players represented well (would not want to be a Marlins’ fan today).

As far as the fans in New York. . . I’m conflicted. I’m impressed with the emotion at each park-the fans really get in to it. Since I’m often the only one in my section at MMP yelling for the Astros (and I can’t tell you how often people look around to see who is cheering-I think they’d prefer that I shut up and “enjoy” the game), I was a little jealous, actually. It was really fun to go to a couple of games in which people actually seemed to know the players and care about the outcome, instead of just wanting to do the wave. On the other hand, I thought the constant booing of Red Sox All-Stars was just classless. I guess those stupid Yankees fans would have preferred to do without J. D. Drew’s homer, huh? Morons. And a couple of Yankees fans and a couple of Tampa Bay fans almost came to blows in my seating section. Could have done without that whole drama.

We ended up leaving during the bottom of the 12th, as it was nearing 1 a.m. local time. We were taking the subway, and knew it would be well over an hour before we got back to Brooklyn. As it turns out, it took two hours to get home. I felt like a loser to leave early, but I had to get up this morning to catch a flight home, and as it turned out, I would have hated to have seen the AL finally win, especially with Lidge on the mound. Dealing with those obnoxious Yankees fans after the win-and fighting with them to get on the subway-would not have been worth it.

Overall, one of the most wonderful vacations I’ve had in a long time. Now it’s time to catch up on some sleep!

(except for leaving early).

It is comforting to know we do get the “feel’ for what’s going on wathhcing the game on the television or internet.

It sounds like a great vacation.

I think next year I’ll visit Cooperstown (or wait four more years to see Biggio and maybe Bagwell there)

Sleep tight