2016 All Star Game Thread

[Thunder]

Good. They kicked Reynolds and Verducci out of the booth.

[a700hitter]

Yankee trash Betances may blow this game for the AL.

[TylerD]

Andrew Miller..... ugly.....

 

Must say he cleaned up pretty nice when he went to the Yankees lol

[yankthis]

If we all took one sip of whiskey every time this announcer uses the word "moment", we would all have been flat on our backs drunk by the third inning. He's almost as bad as the new NESN announcer with his "scuffle".

[a700hitter]

These guys are so desperate for drama that they dramatize everything. After a while, we realize that the drama is not all that dramatic. Sorry Joe. You suck and Smoltzy has no business being in a national booth.

[TylerD]

I think I just saw a fan picking his nose in the back

[TylerD]

These guys are so desperate for drama that they dramatize everything. After a while, we realize that the drama is not all that dramatic. Sorry Joe. You suck and Smoltzy has no business being in a national booth.

 

I like Smoltzy I'll leave now

[Spudboy]

That was a snoozer of a game.

 

At least our guys did all right.

[Thunder]

That was a snoozer of a game.

 

At least our guys did all right.

 

Nah, I'd DFA Mookie after he GIDP.

[mvp 78]

I watched about 2 minutes of the whole thing, which is basically par for the course these days.

 

Thanks to Bud Selig for ruining the midsummer classic.

[TheBabeStrikesBack]

Yankee trash Betances may blow this game for the AL.

 

I guess your boy papi feels a little different than you about Betances.

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/david-ortiz-dellin-betances-share-friendship-article-1.2709092

[Michfan]

I actually forgot the game was on. I even saw a blip in the paper about a home run derby and did't put the two together...

Other than the Sox i've pretty well lost all interest in baseball. And i even dropped the Fox sports package and no longer pick up NESN..

[a700hitter]

I guess your boy papi feels a little different than you about Betances.

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/david-ortiz-dellin-betances-share-friendship-article-1.2709092

Babe, anyone in pinstripes is Yankee trash. Ortiz is becoming overly sentimental in his final year.

[mvp 78]

Babe, anyone in pinstripes is Yankee trash. Ortiz is becoming overly sentimental in his final year.

 

It's like your last day of work when you say bye to people you never talk to. A second later, they are completely forgotten.

[Kimmi]

Babe, anyone in pinstripes is Yankee trash. Ortiz is becoming overly sentimental in his final year.

 

Nailed it.

[TheBabeStrikesBack]

Nailed it.

 

Umm, he didn't "nail" anything.

 

If he would have read the article he would have seen that the friendship started 2 yrs ago.

Nothing to do with him being overly sentimental in his final year.

Sheesh.

[Kimmi]

Umm, he didn't "nail" anything.

 

If he would have read the article he would have seen that the friendship started 2 yrs ago.

Nothing to do with him being overly sentimental in his final year.

Sheesh.

 

OK, but he nailed the first part.

[a700hitter]

OK, but he nailed the first part.

Thank you.

[Maxbialystock]

I watched over half of it and thought our guys acquitted themselves well, getting 4 of the 8 AL hits, including that key double by Bogaerts.

 

Some criticism on espn about taking Ortiz out so early, but my guess is he was happy to do so. No errors by the Sox, but JBJ did make that off-balance throw that missed 2B by a mile.

 

I had the sound off, so never heard the explanation of how the AL was the home team in a NL park. This also meant DH's were OK.

 

Long ago I developed my own, no doubt ill-founded theory, that one box score item would reveal the winner: the ratio of K's to BB's. If one team's pitchers have a better ratio, that team, regardless of hits, etc, is more likely to win. Last night the NL had more hits and more opportunities, but struck out 9 times vs. 2 walks. But the AL team only struck out 5 times and had 3 walks. Of course, the AL also had two very nice dingers by the KC guys.

 

I fell asleep around the 5th or 6th inning and later learned, as predicted by many on talksox, that Wright did not in fact get into the game.

[Thunder]

Are you blind? Put this in the All Star Game Thread. Hate to backseat mod, but you've done this repeatedly.

[Spudboy]

How many new threads do we need about the ASG?

 

Yesterday's attempt was merged. No need for this one either.

[Maxbialystock]

Are you blind? Put this in the All Star Game Thread. Hate to backseat mod, but you've done this repeatedly.

 

Not blind. I did in fact look at the game threads part of the site as well as the talksox part. After reading your post, I looked again, then finally looked at the baseball talk forum (not about the Sox), and there it was. As it turns out, that thread isn't so much about the all-star game as about the peripheral items like how our guys were doing in the voting, some expressions about the Yankees, a discussion of Ortiz's presence at the game, etc.--but very little about the game itself.

 

By all means merge this thread, which won't bother me one bit even though my OP was actually about the game and won't quite fit into the one already started. Despite that, I would have been more than happy to tag my comments onto the established thread had I found it. But I did look.

[Kimmi]

I watched over half of it and thought our guys acquitted themselves well, getting 4 of the 8 AL hits, including that key double by Bogaerts.

 

Some criticism on espn about taking Ortiz out so early, but my guess is he was happy to do so. No errors by the Sox, but JBJ did make that off-balance throw that missed 2B by a mile.

 

I had the sound off, so never heard the explanation of how the AL was the home team in a NL park. This also meant DH's were OK.

 

Long ago I developed my own, no doubt ill-founded theory, that one box score item would reveal the winner: the ratio of K's to BB's. If one team's pitchers have a better ratio, that team, regardless of hits, etc, is more likely to win. Last night the NL had more hits and more opportunities, but struck out 9 times vs. 2 walks. But the AL team only struck out 5 times and had 3 walks. Of course, the AL also had two very nice dingers by the KC guys.

 

I fell asleep around the 5th or 6th inning and later learned, as predicted by many on talksox, that Wright did not in fact get into the game.

 

The All Star Game will be hosted in NL parks for 4 consecutive years, this year being the 2nd year of the four. MLB decided to alternate who the home team is over this stretch.

[Kimmi]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm ready for some baseball.

 

#Boredom

[SoxnCycles]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm ready for some baseball.

 

#Boredom

 

Yup.

It was depressing to wake up this morning and realize it was only Thurs and there's still no baseball.

[Kimmi]

Yup.

It was depressing to wake up this morning and realize it was only Thurs and there's still no baseball.

 

LOL It is usually depressing to wake up and realize it's only Thursday and not Friday, baseball or no baseball. Unless you're off for the summer.

[SoxnCycles]

LOL It is usually depressing to wake up and realize it's only Thursday and not Friday, baseball or no baseball. Unless you're off for the summer.

 

Got that right!

As for your second sentence;

 

[mvp 78]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm ready for some baseball.

 

#Boredom

 

The worst week of the baseball season.

[Bellhorn04]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm ready for some baseball.

 

#Boredom

 

I'm reminded of a sig line used by a former Sox forum poster (who went crazy, unfortunately):

 

'Baseball is life. The rest is waiting.'

[mvp 78]

Tuesday’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game garnered an all-time low 8.7 million viewers, continuing a downward trend in that game’s popularity. In the 1970s the MLB All-Star game routinely topped 30 million viewers, and until 1996 it had never dropped below 20 million. Now the MLB All-Star Game has had fewer than 12 million viewers for six consecutive years.

 

Great job, Bud. You killed it.