The first of several overdue/late posts
Posted by Michael.
So, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game was last week, and if you hadn’t heard, this one counts! (That’s right, instead of using some logical parameter on which to base home field advantage in the Finals/World Series, the MLB awards that advantage to the winner of an exhibition game. Brilliant.)
I have many thoughts on the matter, most of which will bore (most of) the soapboxosphere to death, so I’ll keep them to myself. I will however link to one post on the game that I particularly enjoyed because it goes a decent way towards capturing the contempt I feel towards the Fox broadcasting team. Tim, I know you’ll love this.
I’m also curious as to the East Coast’s reception of the pre-game festivities. Everybody out here was disgusted and disappointed, saying that the 1999 All-Star Game’s ceremony honoring Ted Williams was way better and had more Hall of Famers. My impression is that Yankees and Mets fans loved it, and if you were outside NY then it came off as cheap and tacky. As Jim Caple commented:
And while we’re at it — how come “O Canada” was a tape recording instead of a live performance? The Yankees were able to bring back the Village People to lip-synch “Y.M.C.A.” — but they somehow couldn’t find a single performer in the entire city of New York available to sing Canada’s national anthem?