If “it counts”, why do they still play the MLB All-Star Game like it’s Sunday teeball?
Everybody gets in and we’ve got orange wedges and a pizza party later! Yay!
Despite expanding to a record 34-man roster, both AL manager Joe Girardi and NL manager Charlie Manuel managed to burn through the talent at hand like Tony Phillips on an Anaheim crack bender.
In the 9th inning of a 3-1 game, Girardi was stuck with John Buck batting against Jonathan Broxton. Call it a marquee mismatch.
Dumb and dumber
Manuel doesn’t get off the hook either. Brian McCann’s lefty-on-lefty three-run double in the 7th pulled ol’ Cholly out of the soup after he had singed his roster to the point that Chris Young—designated Diamondback, the man representing the worst team in the NL—was allowed to hit in a 1-0 game with the bases loaded and one away.
Shocker, Young struck out. Then McCann delivered off Matt Thornton, defying the odds and giving Cholly a breather.
In all, the NL used 28 players out of their 34-man allotment in 9 innings, and the AL used 30.
And the game still counts for home field advantage in the World Series? The celebrity softball game had less turnover.
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