The Giants and Dodgers are rivals, did not know that.  Those guys sure don't mind booing someone they don't like, and sure don't mind not applauding someone when they don't know who they are.  It would have been nice, you know just as a common courtesy, to be polite, but okay, I guess they don't feel that way.

Good god, FOX is awful.  Every comment uttered is so awfully P.C. or cliche, and they seem so horribly phony.  I honestly wonder how they live with themselves... Dude, what the hell is with your hair??  I had a moment where I had to wonder how these people live with themselves, like they must look in the mirror sometimes and want to kill themselves.  I wouldn't take all of the tea in China to be a complete phony with ridiculous hair embarrassing myself and the game like they do.  Sad.  And really irritating.  The broadcast is always unlistenable, and as usual I listened to the game on the radio instead, which was really good, and ahead of the video broadcast, for a change... score!

They sure do love Barry Bonds in SF, I was actually kind-of happy for him somehow, he got to show the rest of the world that for however much he gets booed on the road (constantly, it seems), he is LOVED at home and respected on the field.  Good for you... jerkoff.  No, really.  O=) 

I think I'm ready to say that I'm officially over the drama over that guy.  He'll have his record, and he'll have an asterisk (written or otherwise) attached to it forever in the hearts and minds of everyone in the game.  Seems fair enough to me, I'm moving on now.

Willie Mays!  :chills:  :misty:  Why did Jose Reyes get to catch that ball?  What an incredible honor.  Here's what I learned about Willie Mays All Star Game performances:  24 All Star games played, most hits and stolen bases ever for any All Star game player, and in 1960 he went 6-8 and hit for the cycle... wowee!  That tribute was fantastic, and so was the interview later with Willie, Derek Jeter and Ken Griffey Jr., which brought my favorite quote of the day from The Say Hey Kid.  When asked how he'd like to be remembered, Mays replied, after a pause:  ".. the reason I'm pausing is because its very difficutlt for me to try and pick a moment that I'd want them remembering me by... I don't think it'd be a baseball moment, but I think it'd be for the way I treated the game and the way I treated the guys that I played with."  :sniffle:  And then to Jeter and Griffey, "... I think you guys are such role models that when i see you on the field I get chills, and I don't do that!  Nobody phases me in the game of baseball! ..." Talk about a living legend, what a great example for everyone.  :misty:

Cal Ripkin!  Ozzie Smith!  I never get sick of having the living legends around.  Every game should honor a baseball legend, living or not, even just for little things like reading the lineups, etc..  Hear that, MLB?

6-4-3, National League!  Wow, Peavey is awesome and found the zone almost immediately.  Oops, I dropped it!  Poor Prince Fielder, that's gotta be a little embarrassing!  The Mets in the game really performed today, I was very proud of them.  Reyes hit 3-4 and scored (1-0 NL!), Beltran hit 1-3 and scored, and was brilliant on the defense, and Wright was 1-3 and great on the D as well.  Yeah, I know Wagner gave up that homer (D'oh!  Haha, get it?  Homer!) but that happens to the best of 'em and he was great otherwise, I thought.  Reyes was the star of the NL team for me, if we'd won (and we SO should have!  Grrrr... )  I thought he'd have gotten the MVP.  Oh well, we lost, but man that game sure was fun!  Except for stranding the bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th.  I mean, I don't want to name any names... ROWAND... but this is all your goddam fault.  That's right, I said it.

Damn you Ichiro, damn you straight to... ahhh, I wish I could hate on the guy but wow, he's great.  Power to ya, Ichiro.  Dammit.