Ortiz is as slow as Paul Konerko, if not slower...If Girardi had someone other than A-Rod on his bench, he would've had a pinch-runner in that spot.

There was too much deadliest catch on last night to see anything more than a few pitches during the commercial breaks.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Absolutely true.

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Yeah, you were too busy trying to start fights over tennis with the guy that looked like the BTK Killer.

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Darko was the one that shoulda been worried, I had to smooth things over for him.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

The best was when you came back and told the rest of us about it, as loudly as possible, with the guy sitting 5 feet behind you.

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Yeah, he loved it when you called him "some old guy".

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

really fun game to watch. out of all the all-star games this by far has been the most engaging, at least in recent years.

NL Wins, Byrd is made out to be some sort of MVP, and its the lowest rated game ever. Not a coincidence.

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Never liked that moniker .... I'm fat so all I initially see is the BK part and then I just want a Whopper rather than feel outrage about a psycho.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

In all seriousness, the guy did look like him, and we were only about a mile from where the Palatine murders took place.

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With the All-Star game being the lowest rated ever, I was wondering why some of you think that is and how much should baseball be worried?

I was listening to the ESPN guys talk about this, suprised they talked about it, they usually try to save baseball when they can, but one of their reasons was a lack of stars, which I found suprising since the game had Pujols, Mauer, Jeter, and some others. I can't see not having Stephen Strausburg there or even Heyward from the Braves not playing hurt the rating, would 1 or both of those guys brought 3 million more viewers, Strausburg would have brought more in, but probably not much more. Could the stars be because baseball doesn't promote their players well, some people think Pujols may be the best player and he was there, but people still didn't watch. Is baseball worried about promoting a star in case they find out he's dirty.

On to how worried should baseball be, on Pardon the Interuption, Wilbon said he didn't mean much, but Bob Ryan was on their and said Bud Selig should be embarassed because more people watched the game that always get ripped in the NFL's Pro Bowl than this game. I think baseball should be a little worried, they were going against few sports Tuesday, ratings haven't been good for their Saturday games on Fox and right now the top NL playoff team that may bring people in would be the Braves.

What could be a problem for baseball is they cleanup the game and power numbers go down, people don't watch the games, steroids get involved and people watch. I just wonder the way it's going for baseball, what's going to look like in about 10 years, I just wonder if Fox will ever leave and you see more baseball on TBS.