I stayed up and watched the whole four-hour, fifty-minute 2008 All-Star Game. And the National League lost — again — making it a four-hour, fifty-minute waste of my time.
Ever since the tie game in 2002, the winner of the All-Star Game gets home-field advantage in the World Series. That’s the stupidest idea ever devised by the mind of Bud Selig. Home-field advantage should obviously be given to the World Series team with the best regular-season record. But leave it to Major League Baseball to eschew common-sense.
Of course, Cubs fans have been bragging for a couple weeks about all the Cubs players who made it to the All-Star Game. So, let’s take a look at their box scores:
- A. Ramirez: .000 (0 for 0 with a walk)
- K. Fukudome: .000 (0 for 2 with a strikeout)
- G. Soto: .000 (0 for 2 with a strikeout)
Wow, I’m impressed. Meanwhile, the Cardinals’ Albert Pujols went 2 for 3. (Ryan Ludwick went 0 for 2 with a walk, though). To be fair, the Cubs’ pitchers were good:
- C. Zambrano: 0.00 (IP: 2.0, 1 strikeout, 1 hit)
- R. Dempster: 0.00 (IP: 1.0, 3 strikeouts)
- C. Marmol: 0.00 (IP: 1.0, 2 strikeouts)
In the end, it was the Phillies’ Brad Lidge that lost it for the NL in the bottom of the 15th inning. After the game was over, exiting Cubs fans were overheard to say, no doubt out of habit, “Wait ’til next year.”
Of course, Ramirez’ OBP was 1.000. His batting average is not .000 because you cannot divide anything by zero. But I know that math is not the strong suit of Cardinal fans.
Sud: I freely admit that math is not my strong suit. I was an English major, after all. But in this case, all I did was copy stats from ESPN’s box score. So, I’ll forward your corrections to them.
I totally disagree. I was glued to the TV set last night knowing that the outcome could effect my White Sox come October.
I think the greatest thing Bud Selig ever did was add importance to the game. I would love if the other leagues would do that as well.
There’s nothing that’s a bigger waste of time and money than the NBA All-Star game. It’s a joke. MLB has made sure their game is not.
I agree with Ryan. It was riveting. One story of the game after another.
Can you provide more information on this for the rest of us far-away Cubs fans?
Don’t and won’t see a lot of female comments on this thread… a bunch of over paid, over medicated and over impressed with their own importance men playing a boys game.
I say, if you want to see real competition and sport, take the pay out of the game, and let’s see who really loves the game.