\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Once… there was this band who… had a freaky deep voiced guy; I think he was Canadian
and when… they finally broke… big… they… had… a song so sad and annoying…
I couldn’t quite explain it… it also drove my mom… nuts…
mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm
mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
whoa. forget that chumbawamba started in the early 80s and put out over a dozen records. i mean sure, they didn’t know how to get their band on television and thus get a lot of “hits,” but that’s not really the measure of anarcho-punk success.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
Funny how the “Related Videos” Youtube pulls up are a whole bunch of songs I remember pretty clearly but hadn’t thought about in forever. Natalie Imbruglia, Sarah Maclachlan, Oasis, Matchbox 20, Fatboy Slim, The Cranberries etc. etc. I think I spent more time listening to pop music on KFOG in the late ’90s than I realized.
Well it helps that back then there were only a couple of stations worth listening too it was pretty hard to get away from.
Now w/ Pandora, Sirius, XM, ipods, bluetooth from a cell ~ the saturation is nowhere near what it used to be and consequently I randomly hear much better music these days!!!
McCarver and Buck should torture people for confessions, not broadcast baseball games.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I’ve only seen the nat sound option for a couple of afternoon games that I watched on my PS3, and I found it by accident. Next time I watch a game on my computer, I’ll poke around and see if it’s an option there, too.
I have not seen any flashes of gold so I guess Melvin and Cook are wearing the rarely-seen home whites?
If you see the video of the 1975 ASG, there were a bunch of A’s there and they’re wearing about 5 different uni combos. I believe Vida started for the AL and wore gold jersey and pants.
I always hoped that Tony LaRussa would go out with a bang. However, I was thinking more along the lines of shooting him into space than him winning a WS and ensuing AS game!
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
welp, i can’t find the game online so i can’t follow along. but i can say this. i’m absolutely livid about the typesetting.
horrible font. upper and lower caps unnecessarily complicate things when used together and should therefore only be used to a positive effect. and what’s up with the random-ass capitalization anyway? why isn’t game capped? why is star capped? and on a personal-preference note, no serifs on baseball uniforms ever again ever. script, sans, or slab only please.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
I’m pretty sure it would be impossible to ask stupider questions of Matt Cain than what they just asked. I mean, I don’t expect you to ask him the meaning of life or anything, but how about talking about his approach to the game, or to a specific batter? For example, how did he prepare for batters he’s never faced?
Or, just ask about the one thing no on in the press seems to talk about at all: WHAT’S WRONG WITH TIMMY?
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
with a different colored mouthguard each time he left the dugout.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
The managers are relieved. It’s easy to get every player in the game when you don’t have to worry about extra innings. Cook will probably get to face one or two batters in the 8th or 9th.
oooooo Field of Dreams commercial (sort of – pepsi but whatever). Thinking it may be time to hit the gym and then come home and have a baseball movie marathon instead of this lame game!
Tomorrow on 95.7 The Game we launch our new brand, as we change our name to 95.7 TIMMEH!!! Join us as we prattle on endlessly about how the Giants, having won the 2010 World Series and dominated the 2012 All Star Game, are now claiming territorial rights to all of California and demanding that the other team — whose name we forget — move to Guam!!!! Then, a 5 1/2 round table about the question everyone is asking: WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH TIMMEH!?!?!?!
Never suck on a Blow Pop with the microphone open.
Apparently there were a bunch of people on Twitter yesterday who were shocked to learn that KC is in Missouri. Sorry, I mean the KC that actually matters.
Or at least the most heavily hyped. Sure, he’s only 19; and sure, his performance in 277 PA’s in the major is pretty good. He also didn’t do squat in either AA or AAA and his defense is crap. I dunno, maybe he should actually do something before we go electing him to the HOF.
I’m pretty sure he didn’t do squat in AA or AAA because he’s such an ego-driven player that he played moody and pissy in the minors.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
He did well in rookie level and A ball, though. And he only played something like 35 games at AA and 20 at AAA, so I’m not being that fair. But he never earned promotions beyond AA.
82 PA’s of suck. But that’s beside the point, really. The point is that for all of the great play at the HS and JC level, and for all of the sparkling stats against rookie level and A ball pitchers, he hasn’t even come close to dominating pitchers at AA and above. Don’t get me wrong, a 127wRC+ in the majors at the age of 19 is pretty impressive. That doesn’t mean that we can extrapolate that he’s the greatest player of his generation. You just can’t make those judgements until his career is over.
And all of this still distracts from the point I was originally trying to make. There are lots of great players at the ASG. There are undoubtedly lots of great stories. You wanna talk about a guy while he’s up to bat, that’s fine. But do you really have to spend the better part of an inning talking about a guy who only made the team because Stanton was hurt?
Dude at least just admit you’re a hater. It’s fine, you don’t have to like him, but you’ve moved from the “He’s a total douchebag attitude problem” to “He’s not even that good” which is just plain false.
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser.
Really? That’s what I said? Please, show me where. And yeah, I think he’s an immature douchebag. That doesn’t change the fact that he’s not even the best outfielder in his own league.
DFA said he’s the probably going to be the greatest player of his generation. Pretty sure you have to be better than other players to be named the greatest.
Again, missing the point. Sure, he may get better. Hell, he probably will. I don’t even have a problem with him making the ASG over players having better seasons than him. All I’m saying is that I’d like to hear about more than Bryce Harper during the game, and somehow y’all think I said Harper isn’t a good player. I have no idea how you came to that conclusion, but whatever.
It’s just the MLB hype machine doing what it does with certain people. They need exciting young players with the chance to be household names for years to come and both Harper and Trout fit the bill, so they’re getting fawned over big time now. To an extent it’s justified, but it’s easy to go overboard with it.
Harper already saying he and Trout are the Bird and Magic of this generation…well, I don’t know about that. Both have the ability to be superstars but they still have to go through their own adjustment periods, the same as anyone else.
It’s just premature for anyone to be anointing them “best of our generation,” “HOF locks,” or whatever else.
Thank you, those last 2 paragraphs are what I am trying to say. You’re a bit more eloquent than I. And you’re right about MLB trying to hype players and generate buzz, but they just wouldn’t shut up about him last night. At least not until he couldn’t catch a routine fly ball.
I’m just way over the hype machine going all out over someone whenever there’s the slightest hint he could be one of the better players of a generation. It can be hard to separate the player from the hype when people won’t shut up about him for more than a few minutes at a time.
Basically, national sports media as a whole sucks.
I don’t disagree with this at all. One of the nice things about not having ESPN, and not living in a major league cuty, is that there’s generally less of the hype machine. That’s not to say that it doesn’t exist. I mean, I get my info from the internet and you’ll find the same stories on numerous sites when it comes to news, but it’s not as ridiculous as it would be if I lived in DC and watched Baseball Tonight.
Yeah, but I can’t laugh. I do shit like that all the time. Hell, I couldn’t remember Joe Buck’s name even during the game. He probably said it half a dozen times.
The Nats didn’t have to send him to the minors at all. He could have played RF right after he was drafted and likely OPS’d over .700 in the first half-year, before breaking out the next. The reasons to send him down were finance and contention window oriented, for the most part.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
That may very well be. He’s still relatively unproven. I’m not saying he isn’t a great athlete. All I’m saying is that there were plenty of guys at the ASG who’ve actually proven themselves to be great players, and instead all we heard about was a guy who might be a great player someday. Seriously, the Bryce Harper hype train is so ridiculous.
The ASG rosters are so frickin’ huge that it would be a travesty NOT to put a 19yr old with an OPS well over .800 on his league’s team.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
That’s not really the point at all. He’s having a hell of a season and he’s young. I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve to be on the team. I’m saying that the broadcast team doesn’t need to sit there and fawn over him for 20 FKing minutes.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
Yeah, I get that he’s an amazing athlete having a good year at a very young age. I also get that there’s a good chance he’ll have an amazing career. But it’s not a lock, and you still haven’t addressed my original complaint: is there nothing else to talk about at the ASG?
Ok, how about the fact that there were 9 (NINE!) NL OF’s with equal or better fWAR’s than Harper who didn’t make the team? What’s your excuse for him on that?
To hear the MLB broadcast team talk about it, that might be the answer. And really, that’s what I’m getting at. I never once said that Harper wasn’t a good player. And I freely admit that I don’t like him. But my original bone of contention was that they wouldn’t FKing shut up about him last night. He’s the new Derek Jeter, although at least he appears to be a much better hitter.
I guess Mikev and DFA will be happy to know that my problem is more with Buck/McCarver than with Harper. Although I’m still not ready to anoint Harper as the greatest player of his generation when he hasn’t actually proved it.
Why are you trying to pick an argument? You’ve never once touched on the point I’m trying to make. Instead, you’re trying to steer the conversation in a direction that has nothing to do with what I’m saying.
I’m guessing you are not limiting the “generation” thing to exactly 19 right? And by saying that I’d take Trout, I’m not saying that he is definitely better, but that there is a decent chance that he is
The All Star game isn’t the All Players Who Have Accumulated the Most WAR at the Half Way Point game, just like the Hall of Fame isn’t the Hall of Best Players.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
Then why do you keep insisting that he’s the best player of his generation? Because not only is that in no way related to my point, but you’re the one who keeps talking about how great he is. And then, when I point out that there are people playing better than him, you suddenly don’t think performance matters.
I thought so too, but apparently not. And I said as much, above, but apparently we can just ignore what people actually say and instead attribute false beliefs to them and then argue against those beliefs. As much as I like to think of FK as a community, I guess I sometimes forget that ultimately it’s still the internet and people will do the same things here that they do anywhere else.
I’m not sitting here saying he’s shit and won’t reach the Hall of Fame, but I am saying it’s pretty fucking stupid to declare a 19-year old a HOF lock. Give him some freaking time first.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
So if I don’t like something, I can’t complain about it? Really? Maybe you should’ve watched it, since they spent half the game talking about the greatest player of his generation. I mean, why wait until he actually proves it? He already is what you think he could be, right?
And your analogy is weak at best. Watching the ASG and complaining about McCarver and Buck would be more like going to the swimming pool and then complaining about the drunk guy doing cannonballs.
So instead of suggesting that I don’t like them, I should just accept it. Just like how no one would ever complain about Fosse, right? Dude, you’re just getting more and more ridiculous here.
As long as you’re in an area that has radio reception. Otherwise you have to buy some sort of audio thing to be able to listen. And, well, Ken’s great but Vince is just as annoying at times.
But sometimes you get stuck by someone who yells “Two! Two!” on a single up the middle down 3 with 2 out in the 9th, then yells “Take three! Take three!” when he goes to second on a wild pitch.
Yes, this happened just about a week ago when I was at a River Cats game.
I went to a Riverdogs game once where they gave up 7 runs in the top of the 1st. For the rest of the game, the old lady a row ahead of me kept shouting “LITTLE TAPS!” at every single Riverdogs batter. The worst part is that they actually came back to win, without hitting any HR’s.
Accept he’s not the best player in a generation. He may eventually be. But he might not be. Way too soon to tell. Suggesting it’s an absolute right now is making a PL78-like argument. Is that really what you want to do?
He may actually have a point. I mean, Eric Chavez in his mid-20’s was having a better career than A-Rod, so what happened after that doesn’t matter. And Mark Prior was a lock for the Hall. And let’s not forget, Billy Beane is still the greatest prospect a lot of scouts ever saw.
Saying Eric Chavez was better than Arod at any point in his career is a laughably incorrect assertion. Chavez’s best year 5.7 WAR is only better than 4 of ARod’s 16 seasons since he became a fulltime player.
And yet Billy Beane hasn’t hit in the top 4 players in history as a 19 yo. Billy Beane was striking out more than 25% of his A ball ABs when he was 19
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
Ok, clearly sarcasm is lost on you. My point is simply that every player who is a “lock for the HOF” at a young age doesn’t actually end up in the HOF. Basically, here’s what it comes down to:
Me: Bryce Harper is having a good year at a young age, but let’s wait to see what else he does before we simply label him as the greatest player of his generation.
You: ZOMG HARPER IS DOING SOMETHING RARE! DON’T LET ANYONE SUGGEST THAT HE HAS ANYTHING LEFT TO PROVE!
YOU: STOP TALKING ABOUT BRYCE HARPER LIKE HES REALLY FUCKING GOOD
GREEK CHORUS: Yeah I cant believe that theyre talking about him over our insignificant rookie reliever that is having a good year. WHY ISNT REDDICK THERE?
Me: Um he is really fucking good and its the Allstar game where they blow pretty much any significant player, deal with it.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
And no one is disputing that. But then no one is qualifying it when talking about being a “lock” for the HOF. *IF* he keeps this pace and avoids injuries, there’s little doubt he’ll be the greatest player of his generation. And the only doubt in that case is the unlikelihood some unknown showing up and besting him which doesn’t discount that he’d be a HOF lock either way.
*IF* he keeps this pace and avoids injuries, there’s little doubt he’ll be the greatest player of his generation.
Even that’s too strong, without a “one of.” Again, Trout is only a year older, and unlike Harper is already a legit MVP candidate this year.
There’s nothing wrong with thinking Harper will end up being better, but it certainly isn’t certain.
That’s a big ‘if’, though. He certainly could be. But he could also end up getting hurt, becoming a priest, get figured out, contract syphilis, become Eric Chavez/Tim Lincecum, whatever.
There’s a lot of things that can get in the way of talent, it’s best to wait it out.
Oh, you’ve stopped licking the tip and swallowed the whole damn thing now? Seriously? You think if he’s the best player in an entire generation, he still hasn’t reached his potential?
That’s why talking about a players “ceiling” (at least w/o some kind of convention for what it means in terms of percentile forecast) is basically stupid.
This is a good point, but I would think that calling a player “the greatest of his generation” would somehow suggest a best case scenario. Apparently we’re taking the hyperbole to a whole new level now.
Now it’s reading like “best of his generation” is the expected result, not just his ceiling.
His ceiling being best of the modern era, though? The only reason I can think of for someone to make that claim while Harper’s only 19 is to hopefully come back 20-30 years later and say “I told you so way back in 2012.”
The stats agree? As Andeux pointed out, Trout is better and only a year older. Is there something magickal that happens when one turns 20 that only you know about? Or is it that facts just get in your way?
@JamesV: I thought it was 35 years, but yeah. Amazing how I started with “McCarver and Buck talk about Harper too much” and that somehow elicited “BRYCE HARPER COULD BE THE GREATEST BASEBALL PLAYER OF THE MODERN ERA!”
Dude isn’t even physically mature yet or hitting his peak and hes one of the better players in the game, despite most players being 10 years older than them.
Trout also struggled more when he was Harper’s age last year.
Your comment was stop felating harper. My comment was that since hes likely to be one of the greatest players of his generation felating is deserved.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
What are you even talking about at this point? No one ever said he wasn’t a good player, or that he would never get better.
Geez, I’m sorry for having the temerity to suggest that there might be a topic of interest in the world other than Bryce Harper. And I’m sorry for thinking that it’s better to evaluate a player’s career after he’s actually had said career. What a stupid concept. I’m also sorry that you thought a criticism of McCarver and Buck was an attack on your beloved Harper. And while I’m at it, I’ll even apologize on behalf of humanity for this ridiculous idea that we’re allowed to disagree with you, or to voice opinions without your prior approval.
But the idiot comment was childish and reflects really badly on you.
@DFA Harper probably hasn’t hit his peak, but I bet he is more or less physically mature. One of the reasons why he has been able to compete at a high level at such a young age is that he grew into his adult body early. He might fill out a bit, but in the same way as a lanky 24 year old might fill out.
@DFA Yep. I did say that he probably hasn’t hit his peak. That should probably be “almost certainly hasn’t hit his peak”.
The filling out stuff is part of the young player to old player transition, so there are good parts (DINGERZ!) and bad parts (he might already be at his defensive peak).
Wow, silly me. Here I thought that everyone at the ASG deserves a moment in the sun. I completely missed where they changed the name to the Bryce Harper Love Fest Because He Might Be Something Someday Game.
Is that what the ASG is? Best 19 year olds? Or maybe best performance relative to age? Also, did it ever occur to you that there might be people on Earth watching the game that want to know about something baseball-related that isn’t Bryce Harper-related?
Well, he was selected as the 2012 Ford Frick Award winner and will be giving his induction speech in a couple of weeks. That was the moment I ceased to care whether Bill ever gets that award or not because it’s just a joke now.
It’s as good a time as any to point out that this Saturday will be the 25th anniversary of the most boring All-Star Game of all time and the only one I’ve seen in person.
I was at this one, but all I remember was how happy my teenage nephew was that I had brought him. As with most games at the Metrodome, we would really have been better off watching on TV.
Of course, I go out to get another load of various A’s crap out of my trunk (BECAUSE I’M LEAVING FOR COMIC CON TOMORROW, BITCHES), and that’s when Cook is in.
He’s just… so cool. And given how many AS interviews are with dull-as-dirt cliche dudes, it’s nice to have someone that’s a little more of a character.
We went nutso w/ some market tomatoes, basil, balsamic, virgin olive, and razor thin shallots a few weeks ago. YUM!
I added some avo but my lady looked at me like I was the devil.
This was so much better when it didn’t count. The players had fun so I did too. Now I prefer ESPN’s celebrity softball game.
Except I laughed at a guy who tripped over his feet only to find out he was a veteran with a prosthetic leg. oops.
Also, MLB has now said that teams don’t get compensation picks for players who are just rentals. So the price for players under contract past this season just went up, and players who will be FA’s just got cheaper. That, or sellers will have to pick up a big chunk of the contract if they want a decent prospect in return. Teams are valuing prospects much more than they did 8 or 10 years ago.
Harper had the worst All-Star Game in the history of 19-year olds. Sure, he walked, but he got caught in a rundown after getting to second before striking out against some no-name pitcher they didn’t even talk about except to say he was part of a group of five rookies (WITH HARPER AND TROUT AND DARVISH TOO). Then he lost a fly ball in the lights.
Damn, wasn’t that a shitty performance for a 19-year old?
So, for the last few years, my computer passwords at work have been some alphanumeric version of an A’s players name/nickname. And probably about 60-70% of the time, that player gets injured , traded, or demoted while I’m using his name as a password. I finally wised up this time. It worked.
A soliloquy of fresh-sounding ideas which would probably be disastrous.
\"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
I haven’t tested it out on other teams’ players, although I imagine that would probably either not work or have such bad karma that I’ll likely be run over by an bicycle ridden by an overcaffinated populist hipster the next day.
A soliloquy of fresh-sounding ideas which would probably be disastrous.
This reminds me that I don’t believe we have yet had a moment of silence for the demise of Chumbawamba.
Very tragic and sad but, well you know what they say…if this knocks you down. Get up again. It’s what they would want…
Pissing the night awayyyy!
Great, now I have two 90s one hit wonder earworms.
You’re welcome.
mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm
mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm
Is that Crash Test Dummies?
Once… there was this band who… had a freaky deep voiced guy; I think he was Canadian
and when… they finally broke… big… they… had… a song so sad and annoying…
I couldn’t quite explain it… it also drove my mom… nuts…
mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm
mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm
*Bow*
whoa. forget that chumbawamba started in the early 80s and put out over a dozen records. i mean sure, they didn’t know how to get their band on television and thus get a lot of “hits,” but that’s not really the measure of anarcho-punk success.
Crass could beat them up.
well, yeah… but that was exactly why crass got together in the first place. to beat up other pacifist bands.
Funny how the “Related Videos” Youtube pulls up are a whole bunch of songs I remember pretty clearly but hadn’t thought about in forever. Natalie Imbruglia, Sarah Maclachlan, Oasis, Matchbox 20, Fatboy Slim, The Cranberries etc. etc. I think I spent more time listening to pop music on KFOG in the late ’90s than I realized.
Well it helps that back then there were only a couple of stations worth listening too it was pretty hard to get away from.
Now w/ Pandora, Sirius, XM, ipods, bluetooth from a cell ~ the saturation is nowhere near what it used to be and consequently I randomly hear much better music these days!!!
to,*…
Not that I was dying to watch it, but I forgot that the ASG is blacked out on mlb.tv. So astoundingly stupid.
Being aired on Fox
And you know all the players so you don’t lose anything by taking the absolutely necessary step of muting the audio.
yup.
McCarver and Buck should torture people for confessions, not broadcast baseball games.
I love the sound and ambiance noise. I want to just mute all commentary.
there oughta be a separate audio channel like that.
Some games on mlb.tv have that option. It’s very soothing.
really? that right there might be the reason i end up getting mlb.tv.
I’ve only seen the nat sound option for a couple of afternoon games that I watched on my PS3, and I found it by accident. Next time I watch a game on my computer, I’ll poke around and see if it’s an option there, too.
I have not seen any flashes of gold so I guess Melvin and Cook are wearing the rarely-seen home whites?
If you see the video of the 1975 ASG, there were a bunch of A’s there and they’re wearing about 5 different uni combos. I believe Vida started for the AL and wore gold jersey and pants.
Oh, barf.
Verlander is getting rocked. 5-0 top of the 1st.
wow. that’s kinda unexpected.
I always hoped that Tony LaRussa would go out with a bang. However, I was thinking more along the lines of shooting him into space than him winning a WS and ensuing AS game!
I like the way you think
I kinda do too, now that I’m somebody else :)
and thank you for the compliment, of course.
It’s good to have you around these here parts.
Damnit, Verlander. Giving up the triple to Sandoval of all people.
At least that stupid jump throw by Jeter wasn’t fielded.
S’ok Sandoval just f-ed up a play and Jeter is safe at first.
welp, i can’t find the game online so i can’t follow along. but i can say this. i’m absolutely livid about the typesetting.
horrible font. upper and lower caps unnecessarily complicate things when used together and should therefore only be used to a positive effect. and what’s up with the random-ass capitalization anyway? why isn’t game capped? why is star capped? and on a personal-preference note, no serifs on baseball uniforms ever again ever. script, sans, or slab only please.
Pam?
I’m pretty sure it would be impossible to ask stupider questions of Matt Cain than what they just asked. I mean, I don’t expect you to ask him the meaning of life or anything, but how about talking about his approach to the game, or to a specific batter? For example, how did he prepare for batters he’s never faced?
Or, just ask about the one thing no on in the press seems to talk about at all: WHAT’S WRONG WITH TIMMY?
Seeing Curtis Granderson wearing the white shoes below the Yankee pinstripes…just does not work for me.
Yeah, I’d much rather he wore the white shoes beneath green and gold.
But then where would Coco play?
I dunno, Boston?
Ok, that’ll work.
NY, since I think a 1-1 trade is fair. 3-1 if they insist on Kurt/Grant
This game sucks.
It’s an All-Star Game.
is there an echo in here?
Why is it when I have free time, there are no good games? At least I get a free trial of MLB EI next week!
Not doing much for me either. Needs more green & gold….just sayin’
Pretty sure the AL would be winning if Reddick was there. He’d have hit like, 6 8-run HR’s by now.
And he would have pitched 3 shut-out innings.
That’s ridiculous. They’d be perfect innings.
with a different colored mouthguard each time he left the dugout.
not this early. he’d do it A’s style and wait till the last at-bat to win it.
Of course, what was I thinking?
The managers are relieved. It’s easy to get every player in the game when you don’t have to worry about extra innings. Cook will probably get to face one or two batters in the 8th or 9th.
I turned it to Criminal Minds.
oooooo Field of Dreams commercial (sort of – pepsi but whatever). Thinking it may be time to hit the gym and then come home and have a baseball movie marathon instead of this lame game!
Eh, All-Star Games are like spring training games; you focus on individual players and the score doesn’t make any difference.
Unfortunately, in focusing on individual players I’m noticing that players from one NL team have 5 RBIs.
It makes me miss the time when I was three knuckles deep in A’s baseball. I can barely name 5 people on the team now. I has a sad.
Tomorrow on 95.7 The Game we launch our new brand, as we change our name to 95.7 TIMMEH!!! Join us as we prattle on endlessly about how the Giants, having won the 2010 World Series and dominated the 2012 All Star Game, are now claiming territorial rights to all of California and demanding that the other team — whose name we forget — move to Guam!!!! Then, a 5 1/2 round table about the question everyone is asking: WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH TIMMEH!?!?!?!
i’d prefer “95.7 the timmy.”
fair enough! Next on THE TIMMEH!!!!, TIMMEH discusses marijuana edibles and that time he put shaving cream in the Panda’s shoes!!!
crap. now you made it sound halfway interesting.
Inquiring minds want to know: will the new Total Recall still feature a chick with 3 boobs?
I think that has been a confirmed yes.
Ok, I’ll go see it then.
I’m also sick of hearing about Kansas City.
Did you know that’s in Missouri???
THERE’S ONE IN KANSAS, TOO!
Apparently there were a bunch of people on Twitter yesterday who were shocked to learn that KC is in Missouri. Sorry, I mean the KC that actually matters.
Could they please fellate Bryce Harper a little more?
Do they need help?
No, McCarver and whatshisface seem to have it well in hand (and mouth).
Darn.
Sorry. Maybe next time.
Is it anywhere near Favre-ian levels?
For a few minutes, yes. Then he missed that fly ball and they shut up.
See, if it was Favre, it would have been a gritty veteran miss that only a gunslinger who really loves the game could make.
I mean he is probably going to be the best player of a generation…
Or at least the most heavily hyped. Sure, he’s only 19; and sure, his performance in 277 PA’s in the major is pretty good. He also didn’t do squat in either AA or AAA and his defense is crap. I dunno, maybe he should actually do something before we go electing him to the HOF.
I’m pretty sure he didn’t do squat in AA or AAA because he’s such an ego-driven player that he played moody and pissy in the minors.
He did well in rookie level and A ball, though. And he only played something like 35 games at AA and 20 at AAA, so I’m not being that fair. But he never earned promotions beyond AA.
MLB All Star at age 19…
“Yeah, but what did he do in the minors?”
Really?
Thanks, and go As.
277 PA’s. Wanna just skip the career and name him GOAT right now?
82 PAs in AAA.
Thanks, and go As.
82 PA’s of suck. But that’s beside the point, really. The point is that for all of the great play at the HS and JC level, and for all of the sparkling stats against rookie level and A ball pitchers, he hasn’t even come close to dominating pitchers at AA and above. Don’t get me wrong, a 127wRC+ in the majors at the age of 19 is pretty impressive. That doesn’t mean that we can extrapolate that he’s the greatest player of his generation. You just can’t make those judgements until his career is over.
And all of this still distracts from the point I was originally trying to make. There are lots of great players at the ASG. There are undoubtedly lots of great stories. You wanna talk about a guy while he’s up to bat, that’s fine. But do you really have to spend the better part of an inning talking about a guy who only made the team because Stanton was hurt?
82 AAA PA’s: OMG SUCKS
300 MLB PA’s: OMG SMALL SAMPLE SIZE.
Dude at least just admit you’re a hater. It’s fine, you don’t have to like him, but you’ve moved from the “He’s a total douchebag attitude problem” to “He’s not even that good” which is just plain false.
Thanks, and go As.
Really? That’s what I said? Please, show me where. And yeah, I think he’s an immature douchebag. That doesn’t change the fact that he’s not even the best outfielder in his own league.
Nobody said he was.
Thanks, and go As.
DFA said he’s the probably going to be the greatest player of his generation. Pretty sure you have to be better than other players to be named the greatest.
So.. you don’t expect him to get any better? He’s NINTEEN.
Most kids his age just graduated high school.
Thanks, and go As.
Again, missing the point. Sure, he may get better. Hell, he probably will. I don’t even have a problem with him making the ASG over players having better seasons than him. All I’m saying is that I’d like to hear about more than Bryce Harper during the game, and somehow y’all think I said Harper isn’t a good player. I have no idea how you came to that conclusion, but whatever.
Going to be the greatest player of his generation =/= best outfielder right now.
Ok. But greatest player of his generation =/= only player worth talking about at the ASG.
Can’t sleep on an opportunity to interview Jeter, for example.
It’s just the MLB hype machine doing what it does with certain people. They need exciting young players with the chance to be household names for years to come and both Harper and Trout fit the bill, so they’re getting fawned over big time now. To an extent it’s justified, but it’s easy to go overboard with it.
Harper already saying he and Trout are the Bird and Magic of this generation…well, I don’t know about that. Both have the ability to be superstars but they still have to go through their own adjustment periods, the same as anyone else.
It’s just premature for anyone to be anointing them “best of our generation,” “HOF locks,” or whatever else.
Thank you, those last 2 paragraphs are what I am trying to say. You’re a bit more eloquent than I. And you’re right about MLB trying to hype players and generate buzz, but they just wouldn’t shut up about him last night. At least not until he couldn’t catch a routine fly ball.
I’m just way over the hype machine going all out over someone whenever there’s the slightest hint he could be one of the better players of a generation. It can be hard to separate the player from the hype when people won’t shut up about him for more than a few minutes at a time.
Basically, national sports media as a whole sucks.
I don’t disagree with this at all. One of the nice things about not having ESPN, and not living in a major league cuty, is that there’s generally less of the hype machine. That’s not to say that it doesn’t exist. I mean, I get my info from the internet and you’ll find the same stories on numerous sites when it comes to news, but it’s not as ridiculous as it would be if I lived in DC and watched Baseball Tonight.
I have to thank Fox again for completely ignoring Aaron Cook last night in order to do an in-game interview with – who else – Derek Jeter.
It’s stuff like that. “Oh, here’s an A’s player pitching. Nobody gives a shit about the A’s so let’s talk to the Yankee HOFer with the jump throw.”
or Ryan.
Thanks, and go As.
Yeah, but I can’t laugh. I do shit like that all the time. Hell, I couldn’t remember Joe Buck’s name even during the game. He probably said it half a dozen times.
Hey, I realized it the split-second after I hit ‘Post Comment.’ Give me that much.
Holy shit, did I just own myself. RYAN COOK.
I’m going on like 5 hours of sleep.
The Nats didn’t have to send him to the minors at all. He could have played RF right after he was drafted and likely OPS’d over .700 in the first half-year, before breaking out the next. The reasons to send him down were finance and contention window oriented, for the most part.
That may very well be. He’s still relatively unproven. I’m not saying he isn’t a great athlete. All I’m saying is that there were plenty of guys at the ASG who’ve actually proven themselves to be great players, and instead all we heard about was a guy who might be a great player someday. Seriously, the Bryce Harper hype train is so ridiculous.
The ASG rosters are so frickin’ huge that it would be a travesty NOT to put a 19yr old with an OPS well over .800 on his league’s team.
This is an excellent point. Also, fitting that many people in a dugout, you need a few skinny rookies. They take up less space.
That’s not really the point at all. He’s having a hell of a season and he’s young. I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve to be on the team. I’m saying that the broadcast team doesn’t need to sit there and fawn over him for 20 FKing minutes.
I agree with you there.
And how many players in the history of the game have done that? …. yeah Im still waiting.
Seriously? You don’t think he should, you know, actually string together a few great seasons?
Number of players in history who have had a 123 OPS + at age 19 or less:
Bryce Harper
Mel Ott
Ty Cobb
Tony Conigliaro (who was amazing till he got hit in the face with a fastball)
Yeah, I get that he’s an amazing athlete having a good year at a very young age. I also get that there’s a good chance he’ll have an amazing career. But it’s not a lock, and you still haven’t addressed my original complaint: is there nothing else to talk about at the ASG?
There’s also Derek Jeter. I thought we went over that earlier? We can just talk to him on the air when some scrub pitches that nobody knows.
Thanks, and go As.
So you concede my point that Harper is the new Jeter, then?
No, that would currently be Mike Trout.
Thanks, and go As.
Wait, the 19-year-old with the 123 OPS+ isn’t over-hyped, but the 20-year-old with 168 is?
They may have talked about Trout as much as they did Harper, I missed the first 2 innings and tuned them out for a while when Ozzwife got home.
Total Zone says hes on pace to be 12 runs better than average this year.
Fangraphs says hes -1.5
Crap defense my ass.
Ok, how about the fact that there were 9 (NINE!) NL OF’s with equal or better fWAR’s than Harper who didn’t make the team? What’s your excuse for him on that?
Oh, and his defense is great, especially on routine fly balls.
Nobody has ever lost a ball in the lights before. Ever. He is the first one in history. True story.
Thanks, and go As.
Sure, it happens all the time. To All Stars. No one would ever think to, I don’t know, use their glove to shield their eyes once they lost the ball.
Seagulls, though, I can verify that that’s happened.
Those guys don’t play the game the right way and do the little things.
Thanks, and go As.
To hear the MLB broadcast team talk about it, that might be the answer. And really, that’s what I’m getting at. I never once said that Harper wasn’t a good player. And I freely admit that I don’t like him. But my original bone of contention was that they wouldn’t FKing shut up about him last night. He’s the new Derek Jeter, although at least he appears to be a much better hitter.
What made me roll my eyes was McCarver acting like he had the best baserunning instincts of any 19-year old in history.
I’m like, “Really?”
As Harper gets caught in a rundown.
And he made the comment after Harper tagged up from first on a deep fly ball with his team up 8-0.
I guess Mikev and DFA will be happy to know that my problem is more with Buck/McCarver than with Harper. Although I’m still not ready to anoint Harper as the greatest player of his generation when he hasn’t actually proved it.
Which 19 year olds are better than him?
Thanks, and go As.
Why are you trying to pick an argument? You’ve never once touched on the point I’m trying to make. Instead, you’re trying to steer the conversation in a direction that has nothing to do with what I’m saying.
I’d take Trout over him right now
I’m guessing you are not limiting the “generation” thing to exactly 19 right? And by saying that I’d take Trout, I’m not saying that he is definitely better, but that there is a decent chance that he is
I’ll take Trout too.
They both have a chance to be generational players.
Two “once in a generation” players?
Ha.
Don’t forget Ynoa!
Damn, they’re everywhere!
The All Star game isn’t the All Players Who Have Accumulated the Most WAR at the Half Way Point game, just like the Hall of Fame isn’t the Hall of Best Players.
Then why do you keep insisting that he’s the best player of his generation? Because not only is that in no way related to my point, but you’re the one who keeps talking about how great he is. And then, when I point out that there are people playing better than him, you suddenly don’t think performance matters.
I’ll say Harper has the potential to be the best of his generation, but at 19 he can’t possibly be that yet. It’s an easy distinction to make.
I thought so too, but apparently not. And I said as much, above, but apparently we can just ignore what people actually say and instead attribute false beliefs to them and then argue against those beliefs. As much as I like to think of FK as a community, I guess I sometimes forget that ultimately it’s still the internet and people will do the same things here that they do anywhere else.
Yes it does. Fawning over the best player in a generation is warranted. It is likely that Harper will be that player.
“Likely” does not equal “he is.”
You realize that the whole fucking point of the stupid game is to fawn over the most popular players right?
I didn’t decide to watch it. You idiots did. Now you are complaining about it.
Its like going to a god damn swimming pool and complaining about getting wet.
Oh, I’m sorry. This must be the first time anyone’s ever fawned over Bryce Harper.
Who, in case anyone forgot, IS 19 YEARS OLD.
whatever dude. youre going to look silly when this is dug up in thirty five years when he is going into the hall.
If you say so.
I’m not sitting here saying he’s shit and won’t reach the Hall of Fame, but I am saying it’s pretty fucking stupid to declare a 19-year old a HOF lock. Give him some freaking time first.
Of course, if this is just you taking the piss out of the whole thing, well done.
Why would he look silly? Because he had the audacity to suggest that a person’s accomplishments matter more than what YOU think they MIGHT accomplish?
35 years? are you suggesting only time will tell if he ends up being the best player of his generation or not?
No, he’s suggesting he will keep playing until he is 49 to ensure he makes the Hall.
you have to wait 7 years to get into the hall right?
5
So if I don’t like something, I can’t complain about it? Really? Maybe you should’ve watched it, since they spent half the game talking about the greatest player of his generation. I mean, why wait until he actually proves it? He already is what you think he could be, right?
And your analogy is weak at best. Watching the ASG and complaining about McCarver and Buck would be more like going to the swimming pool and then complaining about the drunk guy doing cannonballs.
If the pool advertises 10 cent beer and a cannonball contest then yes complaining about the drunk dude doing cannonballs is stupid.
Its not like you didn’t know those two Neanderthals were going to be on the mic.
So instead of suggesting that I don’t like them, I should just accept it. Just like how no one would ever complain about Fosse, right? Dude, you’re just getting more and more ridiculous here.
Fosse is a moron too, but guess what you can turn on the radio instead!
Ok, so bad sportscasting is the fault of the listener, not the announcer. Got it.
its the fault of the person that doesn’t do what they can to avoid it.
I have one way to experience the ASG. It’s to watch it on Fox. So your solution is to avoid the game altogether. Yeah, that’s really brilliant.
you seriously don’t have a radio?
I live in South Carolina. Do you know how much baseball is on the radio in South Carolina. Absolutely none. Really. Well, except the Gamecocks.
Gamecocks just sounds wrong
@elcroata: What’s even funnier are the female U. of S.C. fans who wear boy shorts that simply say “COCKS” across the butt.
As long as you’re in an area that has radio reception. Otherwise you have to buy some sort of audio thing to be able to listen. And, well, Ken’s great but Vince is just as annoying at times.
Vince is annoying always.
DFA, that’s your fault. For listening to him.
You could just attend every game. Then you’d never have to listen to any idiot announcers.
But sometimes you get stuck by someone who yells “Two! Two!” on a single up the middle down 3 with 2 out in the 9th, then yells “Take three! Take three!” when he goes to second on a wild pitch.
Yes, this happened just about a week ago when I was at a River Cats game.
which is why i turn it off when hes calling
I went to a Riverdogs game once where they gave up 7 runs in the top of the 1st. For the rest of the game, the old lady a row ahead of me kept shouting “LITTLE TAPS!” at every single Riverdogs batter. The worst part is that they actually came back to win, without hitting any HR’s.
The radio broadcasters for the ASG that I listened to on At-Bat were just as bad.
I haven’t realized till right now just how much Netherlands and Neanderthals have in common
When you said this I was seriously concerned that I misspelled it.
Well, they are asses, so you’d be right, but contextually insulting to the poor folks who thought calling themselves that was smart.
Accept he’s not the best player in a generation. He may eventually be. But he might not be. Way too soon to tell. Suggesting it’s an absolute right now is making a PL78-like argument. Is that really what you want to do?
If he continues at this pace he will be.
Then let him do it for a few years first.
He may actually have a point. I mean, Eric Chavez in his mid-20’s was having a better career than A-Rod, so what happened after that doesn’t matter. And Mark Prior was a lock for the Hall. And let’s not forget, Billy Beane is still the greatest prospect a lot of scouts ever saw.
Mark Prior is a pitcher doesn’t count.
Saying Eric Chavez was better than Arod at any point in his career is a laughably incorrect assertion. Chavez’s best year 5.7 WAR is only better than 4 of ARod’s 16 seasons since he became a fulltime player.
And yet Billy Beane hasn’t hit in the top 4 players in history as a 19 yo. Billy Beane was striking out more than 25% of his A ball ABs when he was 19
Ok, clearly sarcasm is lost on you. My point is simply that every player who is a “lock for the HOF” at a young age doesn’t actually end up in the HOF. Basically, here’s what it comes down to:
Me: Bryce Harper is having a good year at a young age, but let’s wait to see what else he does before we simply label him as the greatest player of his generation.
You: ZOMG HARPER IS DOING SOMETHING RARE! DON’T LET ANYONE SUGGEST THAT HE HAS ANYTHING LEFT TO PROVE!
What do you have against pitchers?
they get hurt
And position players don’t?
Not really. The number of position players who have career altering injuries is quite low.
No
YOU: STOP TALKING ABOUT BRYCE HARPER LIKE HES REALLY FUCKING GOOD
GREEK CHORUS: Yeah I cant believe that theyre talking about him over our insignificant rookie reliever that is having a good year. WHY ISNT REDDICK THERE?
Me: Um he is really fucking good and its the Allstar game where they blow pretty much any significant player, deal with it.
Really? I ever said he wasn’t good? Did you read anything I posted?
you didn’t write that?
Is that when you stopped reading? Because I also said:
And:
And:
And am I wrong about his performance in AA and AAA? Please, enlighten us, ALL-Knowing One.
Holy Straw Man, Batman!
This thread is full of them.
This is the most boring FK argument ever. Someone should tell MikeV to call them.
And no one is disputing that. But then no one is qualifying it when talking about being a “lock” for the HOF. *IF* he keeps this pace and avoids injuries, there’s little doubt he’ll be the greatest player of his generation. And the only doubt in that case is the unlikelihood some unknown showing up and besting him which doesn’t discount that he’d be a HOF lock either way.
Even that’s too strong, without a “one of.” Again, Trout is only a year older, and unlike Harper is already a legit MVP candidate this year.
There’s nothing wrong with thinking Harper will end up being better, but it certainly isn’t certain.
I never thought that preferring performance to speculation would be so controversial around here.
That’s a big ‘if’, though. He certainly could be. But he could also end up getting hurt, becoming a priest, get figured out, contract syphilis, become Eric Chavez/Tim Lincecum, whatever.
There’s a lot of things that can get in the way of talent, it’s best to wait it out.
Youre right he could become a pitcher.
or he could become Bo Jackson or Chavez, however they are the exceptions, not the rule.
Why do you think it’s so unreasonable to suggest that a 19 year old may not reach his ceiling?
Because a generational talent isn’t his ceiling, its best player ever to play the modern game.
Oh, you’ve stopped licking the tip and swallowed the whole damn thing now? Seriously? You think if he’s the best player in an entire generation, he still hasn’t reached his potential?
That’s why talking about a players “ceiling” (at least w/o some kind of convention for what it means in terms of percentile forecast) is basically stupid.
No thats his 99 percentile outcome.
I think hes likely to be the best player of his generation.
The stats agree. The scouts agree. This dude is off the charts.
This is a good point, but I would think that calling a player “the greatest of his generation” would somehow suggest a best case scenario. Apparently we’re taking the hyperbole to a whole new level now.
@ozzman99
Now it’s reading like “best of his generation” is the expected result, not just his ceiling.
His ceiling being best of the modern era, though? The only reason I can think of for someone to make that claim while Harper’s only 19 is to hopefully come back 20-30 years later and say “I told you so way back in 2012.”
The stats agree? As Andeux pointed out, Trout is better and only a year older. Is there something magickal that happens when one turns 20 that only you know about? Or is it that facts just get in your way?
I said is likely to be not is.
@JamesV: I thought it was 35 years, but yeah. Amazing how I started with “McCarver and Buck talk about Harper too much” and that somehow elicited “BRYCE HARPER COULD BE THE GREATEST BASEBALL PLAYER OF THE MODERN ERA!”
@DFA: Good job qualifying your hyperbole. So basically, Harper will be the greatest unless he’s not. That’s really deep, thanks for your contribution.
Dude isn’t even physically mature yet or hitting his peak and hes one of the better players in the game, despite most players being 10 years older than them.
Trout also struggled more when he was Harper’s age last year.
Your comment was stop felating harper. My comment was that since hes likely to be one of the greatest players of his generation felating is deserved.
MikeV is one of the greatest posters of his generation (according to HOF voter and incoming president of the BBWAA) and apparently could use a BJ.
Just sayin’ …
What are you even talking about at this point? No one ever said he wasn’t a good player, or that he would never get better.
Geez, I’m sorry for having the temerity to suggest that there might be a topic of interest in the world other than Bryce Harper. And I’m sorry for thinking that it’s better to evaluate a player’s career after he’s actually had said career. What a stupid concept. I’m also sorry that you thought a criticism of McCarver and Buck was an attack on your beloved Harper. And while I’m at it, I’ll even apologize on behalf of humanity for this ridiculous idea that we’re allowed to disagree with you, or to voice opinions without your prior approval.
But the idiot comment was childish and reflects really badly on you.
@DFA Harper probably hasn’t hit his peak, but I bet he is more or less physically mature. One of the reasons why he has been able to compete at a high level at such a young age is that he grew into his adult body early. He might fill out a bit, but in the same way as a lanky 24 year old might fill out.
Right, which means that he will add muscle mass and hit the ball even harder.
@DFA Yep. I did say that he probably hasn’t hit his peak. That should probably be “almost certainly hasn’t hit his peak”.
The filling out stuff is part of the young player to old player transition, so there are good parts (DINGERZ!) and bad parts (he might already be at his defensive peak).
LOL
lolwhat.
I think you forgot ‘AND HE ACHIEVES WORLD PEACE’.
Wow, silly me. Here I thought that everyone at the ASG deserves a moment in the sun. I completely missed where they changed the name to the Bryce Harper Love Fest Because He Might Be Something Someday Game.
You mean he might be the best 19 yo ever right now?
This again?
Is that what the ASG is? Best 19 year olds? Or maybe best performance relative to age? Also, did it ever occur to you that there might be people on Earth watching the game that want to know about something baseball-related that isn’t Bryce Harper-related?
And he didn’t even win the fan vote and only got added because of Stanton’s injury.
Over guys that are having better seasons.
They proved that by leaving Reddick out, yeah.
Excellent work all around on this argument everybody. I laughed, I cried, I gagged on the fellatio metaphors.
Apparently McCarver thinks no 19-year old has ever thought to tag up to go to second on a deep fly ball.
I don’t like McCarver. I don’t get why he’s considered so great.
I don’t know anybody who thinks he’s great at all.
Well, he was selected as the 2012 Ford Frick Award winner and will be giving his induction speech in a couple of weeks. That was the moment I ceased to care whether Bill ever gets that award or not because it’s just a joke now.
Oh, I’d purged that from my memory.
There are a lot of bad announcers out there. I don’t know what their criteria are for hiring these guys, but they really should change them.
yeah, that vote last year was a joke. thanks for reminding me.
…That was the moment when I realized, ‘Hey, maybe the atheists are right.’
Darn tootin we are.
Nobody does. That’s the great mystery.
Guess 19-year olds still get caught off the base on comebackers, though.
I don’t like that a Giant HR’d, but it was nice to see a Rangers pitcher get lit up. It would be nicer if A’s hitters did that once in a while.
Every time a Giants player gets an RBI in the ASG, an endangered species dies out.
we wish.
FKing enviro-hating Giants. Well, at least the babies are safe.
Now let me tell you what happens when a Giants pitcher gets a strikeout…
So Timmeh is trying to save the babies, then.
What’s with you and babies?
(He’s pregnant)
Awww!
(Not his wife. Him.)
(I got it. Still awwww!) I want to rub his belly.
I’m not pregnant. It’s just a root beer belly.
[rubs belly anyway]
I think it’s good luck.
I’m really happy that there’s something totally awesome and full of star power to keep me watching tv tonight.
I mean the season premiere of ‘White Collar’, of course.
Good call. Too bad it’s not for a while still.
Also, someone tell me when Dickey or Cook is pitching so I can actually turn on the game.
Dickey is coming in!
I <3 him!
TWHS
Cookie did GREAT!
What was I doing when I was 19? Not losing a fly ball in the lights in an All-Star Game, that’s what.
Aw, that was nice.
KYLI! RA is warming up!
If I met him in person, I would give him a decoder ring. And we would put our rings together to summon the Balrog.
It’s as good a time as any to point out that this Saturday will be the 25th anniversary of the most boring All-Star Game of all time and the only one I’ve seen in person.
I was at this one, but all I remember was how happy my teenage nephew was that I had brought him. As with most games at the Metrodome, we would really have been better off watching on TV.
I just woke up from my nap. WOO just in time for Dickey and the discussion of why Buster Posey sucks.
Sigh. Remember when I had those awesome seats at the K?
C is for Cookie, thats good enough for me!
Cook!!!
Fuck Jeter, I want Cookie!
This is more about Erin, who is making her Fox debut tonight after moving over from ESPN, than Jeter.
She is nice to look at, yes. But she’s fking up my ASG watching.
Fuck you, Bryce Harper.
They are ruining my Cook experience.
Yes, let’s ignore the A’s pitcher to interview Jeter.
COOK!
Hey A’s, you get one token All Star and we’re going to spend the bulk of his time in the game talking to Derek FKing Jeter.
Oh BARF OF COURSE WE WANT TO LISTEN TO DEREK JETER OVERCOMING ADVERSITY instead of Cook sitting down the side.
Yeah, memo to Erin–NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THE YANKEES ADVERSITY.
And they just had to rub it in by mentioning Chavy. FK YOU, FUX.
Way to show Verlander how it’s done, Cookie.
He wasn’t led off by the trainer, holding his elbow, so this ASG is a success for me.
Why can’t Jeter talk over this horseshit song too?
See? Cook starts over Verlander and the AL wins this game.
Didn’t they ignore Gio last year too?
There are a lot of former A’s, I’ve noticed. Would they be all stars if they were on the A’s? Doubtful.
It’s kind of obscene how many ex-A’s there are.
It makes me sad.
Of course, I go out to get another load of various A’s crap out of my trunk (BECAUSE I’M LEAVING FOR COMIC CON TOMORROW, BITCHES), and that’s when Cook is in.
At least I got to see half his inning. D:
she should have asked Jeter WHAT’S WRONG WITH TIMMEH?!?!?!
The total lack of A’s position players has led to the inevitable shut out of the AL. Reddick and Cespedes start and this is a close game!!!!
So it’s a blowout, and Cook is done. Not much reason to watch the rest.
You forget the part where Reddick parachutes in from a helicopter to save the day.
Reddick’s too good for this shit.
R. A, Dickey is really cool.
He’s just… so cool. And given how many AS interviews are with dull-as-dirt cliche dudes, it’s nice to have someone that’s a little more of a character.
Cooks had the best outing of all pitchers today.
Yep.
For Kyli and Matty, and all the other cat lovers:
WANT!
It also deflates and become a rug or some shit.
Oh dude!
WANT.
I love you all.
My Nieces loved the My Neighbor Totoro dvd I gifted them years back, I was happy to see the Studio Ghibli box set over the holidays!
at there house*, ugh twice now…
Hang it up, kid. LOL
Its what you get when your watching a game and eating chips and salsa whilst trying to type passable english…
Me talk pretty.
Oooo. Salsa. I can’t wait for our tomatoes to ripen. Homemade salsa! Tomato sandwiches!
We went nutso w/ some market tomatoes, basil, balsamic, virgin olive, and razor thin shallots a few weeks ago. YUM!
I added some avo but my lady looked at me like I was the devil.
Grammar takes a load off, a long line of teachers and professors from my past wince collectively.
Okay, I liked that State Farm commerical. Kerry Wood looked really skinny, though.
Here it is.
I wish Fox would stop showing that sexual predator on my screen. He also looks and acts like a total douche.
I don’t Like Jeter either, but that’s kinda harsh.
We’re definitely into the “Anybody who hasn’t played yet who wants to get in the game, raise your hand” phase.
[raises hand]
Cook still lording, though Kimbrel is a close second.
That called strike 3 on Harper was FKing gorgeous.
Hanrahan with the chin-merkin.
Running into something that dense is, uh, not a pleasant thought.
Wait. His chin fur… or something else?
Hee!
This was so much better when it didn’t count. The players had fun so I did too. Now I prefer ESPN’s celebrity softball game.
Except I laughed at a guy who tripped over his feet only to find out he was a veteran with a prosthetic leg. oops.
I stand by my ‘replace the HR Derby with a drunken wiffle ball game/dizzy bat’. Because that would be hilarious and fun and awesome.
I’d be way happier with something more like mid-90s MTV Spring Break than >:-| serious business ‘this time it counts’ pants on an exhibition game.
Rock n’ Jock, baby!
Exaaaaactly.
All this silence regarding the ‘A’s’ and ‘trading’ makes me think something is going to happen soon.
Not a peep about Colon, kinda weird.
Everything’s pretty quiet, though — I’m very curious to see how things end up for baseball at the trade deadline, given the second wildcard addition.
I’m curious AND excited!
Also, MLB has now said that teams don’t get compensation picks for players who are just rentals. So the price for players under contract past this season just went up, and players who will be FA’s just got cheaper. That, or sellers will have to pick up a big chunk of the contract if they want a decent prospect in return. Teams are valuing prospects much more than they did 8 or 10 years ago.
LOOK OUT ERIN, THAT PANDA IS NOT SO CUDDLY.
It’s okay, she’s sober.
“I like how he keeps his sideburns grey to look honest”
Awe, Momma’s all Verklempt.
Looked at the house.
I want it.
She found one to rent and is signign the lease this Sunday.
Thanks, and go As.
Good
likeluck, Mike.Groovy.
AWESOME NEWS MV
Thx.
It’s *very* tentative. I think that it’s probably less than 50% chance I get this place, but who knows.
Thanks, and go As.
Squatters have rights…
So, uh, San Bernadino…
Oops.
Thanks, and go As.
Speaking of greatest generational talents
Thanks, and go As.
I thought the Twins wanted to trade for him. Damn, I was really hoping they’d land some Target coupons.
HOW MANY TIMES HAS BRYCE HARPER BEEN AN ALLSTAR AMIRITE?!?!?
Thanks, and go As.
Harper had the worst All-Star Game in the history of 19-year olds. Sure, he walked, but he got caught in a rundown after getting to second before striking out against some no-name pitcher they didn’t even talk about except to say he was part of a group of five rookies (WITH HARPER AND TROUT AND DARVISH TOO). Then he lost a fly ball in the lights.
Damn, wasn’t that a shitty performance for a 19-year old?
Greatest pitcher of his generation*
*36-year-old lefties from Merced
So, for the last few years, my computer passwords at work have been some alphanumeric version of an A’s players name/nickname. And probably about 60-70% of the time, that player gets injured , traded, or demoted while I’m using his name as a password. I finally wised up this time. It worked.
Use Bryce Harper as your password. He’s a lock for the HOF.
heh.
Hurray for sympathetic magic(k)!
That shit works.
You used Timmeh?
I haven’t tested it out on other teams’ players, although I imagine that would probably either not work or have such bad karma that I’ll likely be run over by an bicycle ridden by an overcaffinated populist hipster the next day.