7/12 All-Star game AL (Weaver) @ NL (Halladay) right now

[UMFan83]

I didn't see a thread for the ASG so here goes.

 

Starlin looked spiffy whilst getting introduced.

[BCVM22]

Starlin looked spiffy whilst getting introduced.

 

He looked sort of bewildered.

[BCVM22]

It is hot outside

But we are under the roof

There is no score

 

That's only one syllable short of being a solid haiku by Joe Buck.

[Careless]

No, mister Fox announcer, Pineda is not the youngest all-star.

[tfarks]

Pineda made Rolen and Weeks look hopeless.

[Guest]

Is that not a perfect microcosm of Fox baseball broadcasts? McCarver doing unspeakable things to the English language while a guy from Boston does the exact opposite of what McCarver said. Off a Philadelphia pitcher while Buck narrates with a monotone.

[UMFan83]

C, 1B, LF, and CF have been replaced for the NL so far. Given that the NL has only 2 healthy SSs on the roster, I'd expect Starlin to come in for the 6th or 7th.

[InconspicuousZ28]

Castro with the SB as a pinch runner.

[UMFan83]

Castro is in the game as a pinch runner. Good news is that he's surely gonna get an AB.

[Careless]

C, 1B, LF, and CF have been replaced for the NL so far. Given that the NL has only 2 healthy SSs on the roster, I'd expect Starlin to come in for the 6th or 7th.

Wrote that about 30 seconds before he came in?

[UMFan83]

Castro with the SB as a pinch runner.

 

[expletive] awesome. He's not even a big base stealer. I love.

[UMFan83]

C, 1B, LF, and CF have been replaced for the NL so far. Given that the NL has only 2 healthy SSs on the roster, I'd expect Starlin to come in for the 6th or 7th.

Wrote that about 30 seconds before he came in?

 

Yup, oh well. I forgot Tulo had a leg injury and probably wouldnt run if he got on.

[InconspicuousZ28]

Another SB for Castro.

[InconspicuousZ28]

....and then he's meat at the plate after a swinging bunt.

[UMFan83]

....and then he's meat at the plate after a swinging bunt.

 

That was a great barehanded play by Walden.

[Derwood]

I saw Castro's season end on that slide. So lucky he's fine

[UMFan83]

I'm so scared that Castro is going to field a grounder and bounce one towards 1B with Pena not there to save him.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Heath Bell is a pretty cool guy.

[BCVM22]

I'm so scared that Castro is going to field a grounder and bounce one towards 1B with Pena not there to save him.

 

We good.

[Sammy Sofa]

Is Buck going to announce the rest of the game like it's a [expletive] funeral because of the cancer "tribute?" Lighten the [expletive] up, you ghoul.

[UMFan83]

Boo, that sucked.

 

Also that graphic comparing Starlin Castro to the great SS's of the past was awful. It was comparing 2 things, BA and hits in the first 214 games of a career. I'm all about comparing Starlin to greats, but yeah

[BCVM22]

Barring a big inning or two, looks like Starlin's first ASG goes 0-1, K, 2 SB.

[Guest]

"I'll tell you Joe, it's unusual there aren't more passed balls in All-Star games because catchers are used to hitting against pitchers, not catching them."

 

I know what McCarver was trying to say but that was just a horrible way of saying it.

[Old Style]

"I'll tell you Joe, it's unusual there aren't more passed balls in All-Star games because catchers are used to hitting against pitchers, not catching them."

 

I know what McCarver was trying to say but that was just a horrible way of saying it.

I came to post that exact quote. What a [expletive].

[Guest]

Barring a big inning or two, looks like Starlin's first ASG goes 0-1, K, 2 SB.

 

Castro would be sixth up in the eighth.