2008 All-Star Game: NL (Sheets) @ AL (Lee) 7 pm FOX

[Derwood]

Blurb in the Tribune today about the pitching situation.

 

Wright and Drew were to have pitched next for each team.

 

oh, now i'm pissed that didn't happen

[abuck1220]

I'll be very interested to see how Uggla is received at Wrigley next weekend when Florida pays a visit.

 

Probably a good thing for him that the four game set in Chicago is Florida's only road series between now and August 5

 

Uggla will be the most hated man in Chicago (NS), New York (Mets), Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Miami, St Louis, Phoenix, and Los Angeles (Dodgers).

 

Those are the home cities of the 8 teams with the most legit shot at reaching the playoffs, thus with a shot at the WS too.

 

i really don't think any of those teams' fans will remember or care about what uggla did in the all-star game.

[Garwilly]

I'll be very interested to see how Uggla is received at Wrigley next weekend when Florida pays a visit.

 

Probably a good thing for him that the four game set in Chicago is Florida's only road series between now and August 5

 

Uggla will be the most hated man in Chicago (NS), New York (Mets), Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Miami, St Louis, Phoenix, and Los Angeles (Dodgers).

 

Those are the home cities of the 8 teams with the most legit shot at reaching the playoffs, thus with a shot at the WS too.

 

i really don't think any of those teams' fans will remember or care about what uggla did in the all-star game.

 

Never Forget.

[CubsBears29]

I'll be very interested to see how Uggla is received at Wrigley next weekend when Florida pays a visit.

 

Probably a good thing for him that the four game set in Chicago is Florida's only road series between now and August 5

 

Uggla will be the most hated man in Chicago (NS), New York (Mets), Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Miami, St Louis, Phoenix, and Los Angeles (Dodgers).

 

Those are the home cities of the 8 teams with the most legit shot at reaching the playoffs, thus with a shot at the WS too.

 

i really don't think any of those teams' fans will remember or care about what uggla did in the all-star game.

 

The vast majority may do so, but I will when I'm sitting there thinking in October, "Why do the Cubs have to start the WS on the road, when they have a X-amount of games better record than the AL team? Oh, yeah. We got Uggla'd".

[abuck1220]

ok, but none of uggla's errors cost the NL the game, so that'd be kinda stupid.

[Garwilly]

ok, but none of uggla's errors cost the NL the game, so that'd be kinda stupid.

 

 

His at bats did.

[Derwood]

ok, but none of uggla's errors cost the NL the game, so that'd be kinda stupid.

 

 

His at bats did.

 

you could just as easily say that anyone's at-bats cost the NL the game.

[CubColtPacer]

ok, but none of uggla's errors cost the NL the game, so that'd be kinda stupid.

 

 

His at bats did.

 

you could just as easily say that anyone's at-bats cost the NL the game.

 

Maybe, but Uggla did seem to come up in most of the big spots. Look at his at-bats

 

Came up in the 8th: 1 on, 0 outs: struck out

Came up in the 10th: runners on 1st and 3rd, 1 out. Great scoring chance. Uggla grounds into a double play, inning over.

Came up in the 12th: bases loaded, 1 out. For the 2nd time in extra innings, Uggla doesn't even need a base hit to score a run. He strikes out on 3 pitches.

Lead off the 15th with a strikeout.

 

The NL really had 2 chances in extra innings. Uggla had the misfortune of being really bad in some of the "biggest" at-bats in the game. Does it mean he's a choke artist? No. But he was easily the biggest reason the NL lost the game.

[CubsBears29]

ok, but none of uggla's errors cost the NL the game, so that'd be kinda stupid.

 

 

His at bats did.

 

you could just as easily say that anyone's at-bats cost the NL the game.

 

Maybe, but Uggla did seem to come up in most of the big spots. Look at his at-bats

 

Came up in the 8th: 1 on, 0 outs: struck out

Came up in the 10th: runners on 1st and 3rd, 1 out. Great scoring chance. Uggla grounds into a double play, inning over.

Came up in the 12th: bases loaded, 1 out. For the 2nd time in extra innings, Uggla doesn't even need a base hit to score a run. He strikes out on 3 pitches.

Lead off the 15th with a strikeout.

 

The NL really had 2 chances in extra innings. Uggla had the misfortune of being really bad in some of the "biggest" at-bats in the game. Does it mean he's a choke artist? No. But he was easily the biggest reason the NL lost the game.

 

QFT.

 

True there were some ABs and baserunning mistakes by other members of the NL team, but those above mentioned ABs were big deterrents in the overall reason the AL won the contest.

 

Also, none of his Es may have led to any runs or directly attributed to the loss, but he owed Aaron Cook, Miguel Tejada, Christian Guzman, and Russell Martin really expensive dinners for saving his bacon in huge ways, in the 10th(?)/11th(?) inning, when he committed those 2 back-to-back errors that allowed the bases to become loaded with either 1 or 0 outs. (Not sure if any of the outfield assists should have been attributed to his other previous error or not.)