All Star (Non)Game Highlights

The game was fine. Close, nice catch by Crawford, blah, blah.

But two non-game items stuck out to me as being awesome.

1) During the President's in-booth interview, Joe Buck made a crack about how the NL has not won the last 12 all star games, and how "There's no stimulus plan for them" or something. Obama's response "We're out of money." THAT is fucking hilarious, because that is the exact same thing that Joe Blow off the street would have said. Also the fist pump after he didn't bounce the first pitch (almost did) was funny too. By the way, Fox News burned to the ground after that comment, and I'm pretty sure they started a 24 hour channel devoted specifically to those four words.

2) THIS.


This is the best fast food commercial ever made. And it isn't close. Congrats to Taco Bell. I only saw it once, but some day, I'm going to do a full length expose on the lyrics. Genius.

Prince Can Hit the Ball Far

Is it strange to feel proud that Prince Fielder won the home run derby? Should I be as happy as I am being a Brewer fan? To be genuinely excited that he and Braun appear to like eachother as Braun was the first one to home plate (beating a bunch of shit head little kids) to do their little fake boxing match celebration? Does this mean that Prince would tell Scott Boras to get bent and take a small discount to stay in Milwaukee after his contract is up? A lot of unanswered questions that were spawned by a three hour long batting practice. Lets just hope Prince doesn't go Bobby Abreu a few years back and hit like 2 HRs after the break.

I'll probably watch most of the All-Star game tonight. Only because there isn't shit else to do, and summer TV is painful.

Nelson Cruz looked genuinely unhappy that Prince beat him. I heard last night that he is 29. Is that fucking true? Then I'm much less impressed with how far he can hit.

Dude, Lincecum you were so wasted last night

So I sat down to watch the extra innings portion of the All-Star game last night and I had to wonder how much Francona payed Uggla so these shitty ass Sawx could try and steal home field advantage for the World Series. Too bad it didn't pay off and Corey Hart's lame duck arm out in right gave the AL the win anyways. I shouldn't say that, the throw wasn't terrible and it would have taken a pretty good one to get the runner.

I did notice on one of the tickers that Tim Lincecum was scratched from the lineup last night after getting out of the hospital earlier in the day with flu like symptoms and dehydration. Hey Tim, at least when I pull that bullshit after a long night of drinking I'm only missing a shitty day at work, you on the other hand missed an appearance in your first All-Star game. I hope you at least got syphilis from some NYC alley skank.

Every All-Star, Pro Bowl, whatever game, is a joke. I have no ideas to make them more exciting, and I don't know that there is without compromising the having fun part of game. I just never can seem to amp myself up too much for these things, ah well.