[Captain Obvious]

Well, at least the last few inning have been entertaining.
I had to find something else to do during the first half of the game.

[Randman]

I have to work third shift so I'm all for the game going all night long.

[Captain Obvious]

I want Marmol to blow it. It only makes sense. He is after all a Cub

Poor Uggla. I feel bad for him

[BasketofPuppies]

How did CM get to be part of the NL All Star Team anyway? His pitching has been, at best, inconsistent for the last two months.

[besson3c]

They gave the MVP (J.D. Drew) an SUV!

How awesome... A guy who can easily afford an SUV gets a stupid SUV!

[Ghoser777]

What a stupid way to decide home field advantage in the world series.

[Randman]

Originally Posted by Ghoser777 

What a stupid way to decide home field advantage in the world series.

yes. But They felt the need to make it worth something after that fiasco were they just called the game.

[Dork.]

With the money those players are making -- as well as the All Star bonuses that most of them have -- we have to set up something artificial and lame to make the game "worth something"?

MLB only cares about its customers: Fox, MasterCard, State Farm, etc. The home-field advantage thing gives Joe Buck something to talk about during the game, that's about it. MLB can market it to their customers (i.e. advertisers) as a unique opportunity that other sports don't have.

[Dork.]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

How awesome... A guy who can easily afford an SUV gets a stupid SUV!

Who are you calling stupid? I will not abide by these personal attacks by a Foreign Agent on an all-American vehicle!

The 2009 Chevy Tahoe Hybrid (as it prefers to be called) is a Roads Scholar! I bet it rolled right over your stupid SAT score with its off-road suspension (Do they even let Canadians take the SAT anymore?), and even gets better gas mileage than you do (unless you've just eaten poutine....)

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by Dork. 

Who are you calling stupid? I will not abide by these personal attacks by a Foreign Agent on an all-American vehicle!

The 2009 Chevy Tahoe Hybrid (as it prefers to be called) is a Roads Scholar! I bet it rolled right over your stupid SAT score with its off-road suspension (Do they even let Canadians take the SAT anymore?), and even gets better gas mileage than you do (unless you've just eaten poutine....)

Reported.

You think you're so great because your Mets had a nice win streak and are in second place while my Jays had less of a win streak and are in forth place. You Mets fans slobber over Carlos Delgado and David Wright and want to have sex with them, but don't know much about baseball, and all of the Mets players are too busy being famous and eating doughnuts (that's "donuts" for you, American) that you haven't figured out much about baseball.

Look at Santana. He's too busy practicing his guitar, it's a wonder that he can even win the occasional game. I don't know about you, but I'd rather have CY YOUNG on my team than Santana. The Blue Jays don't have Cy Young or Santana on their team either, but that's okay because you probably don't even know who Cy Young is.

You see, you Americans are too busy driving to McDonalds in your SUVs to buy more doughnuts that you don't learn about baseball. And Pedro Martinez? Vote Pedro? That guy? When was the last time the Mets won? Well, the Blue Jays won the World Series two years in a row in the early 90s, and we did it with Rickey Henderson! Again, perhaps if the Mets would focus on BASEBALL rather than guitars, doughnuts, SUVs, and having sex with people they might have won with Rickey Henderson too. You see, while the Mets are driving over SATs with their SUVs, they are not winning with Rickey Henderson. Also, everything you said to me applies to YOU! Look in a mirror, buddy! You don't even know who Cy Young is and you're saying all of this stuff to me? Cy Young didn't need an SUV to be great, so why do your Mets?

Consider yourself reported.

[Dork.]

I'm reporting you.... to the Center for Accuracy on the Internet since you are circulating such blatant falsehoods about our National pastime. (Just because you have a team up there, it's still OUR pasttime, dangit!)

- Anna Benson is no longer on the Mets, so nobody on the team is having sex with anyone.

- Cy Young was the famous mathematician and physicist who first came up with an explanation of the Infield Fly Rule (which, until then, was thought to be a contradiction of Newtonian mechanics), as well as the mathematical proof why the Chicago Cubs can never win another world series (The Billy Goat Squared theorem.) His theories are indirectly credited with 511 wins. Upon his death, Major League Baseball bronzed his hand and turned it into a trophy which was given to the best Major League pitcher, who then chopped off his hand to give for the next trophy. In 1967, when they started to give out a separate award for each league, they stopped using human hands out of superstition -- the winners of the award in the prior format never quite pitched the same way again after winning it. The exception was Sandy Koufax, who won the award three times, the last being in 1966. It is unknown what body part he donated for the 1967 award, and whether this impacted the decision to change the trophy.

- The last Toronto Blue Jay to win the award was Roy Holliday, who only won after he smashed in Pedro Martinez's leg with a tire iron.

- The last Met to win a Cy Young was Johan Santana, who won it in 2004 and 2006 while on loan to the Minnesota Twins.

- The last Canadian player to win the Cy Young was Wayne Gretzky, who started collecting Baseball awards after he won all the Hockey ones.

- Contrary to rumors circulated on the Internet by known tuba players from Indiana, Johan Santana does not play guitar. These rumors deliberately confuse him with Rafael Santana, the former Mets shortstop, who wrote "Oye Como Va" in 1971.

[besson3c]

Are you sure that your Santana is Johan Santana, and he isn't Carlos Santana in disguise? Has anybody authenticated this guy?

There are lots of Canadians in baseball, Dork. These is Russell Martin, who caught the all-star game. There is Jason Bay, Justin Morneau, Ryan Dempster, Erik Bedard (was he in the all-star game?), Eric Gagne, Rich Harden, Corey Koskie, Paul Quantrill, Matt Stairs, Joey Votto, and others. We are slowly taking over baseball and making it better, because you guys don't know what you're doing.

Also, Canadians are better at sliding.

[Dork.]

It's only fair, since we own all the good hockey teams now....

[besson3c]

Although something like 60% of the NHL is Canadian. Face it Dork., we are much better than Americans at hockey, and you are wrong.

[Laminar]

I'd comment on how this thread got really lame, but it started out talking about baseball, so it was never very cool in the first place.

[besson3c]

It's a good thing Laminar is here to help us all out! Did you buy any new colored paper today Laminar?

[Randman]

Originally Posted by Laminar 

I'd comment on how this thread got really lame, but it started out talking about baseball, so it was never very cool in the first place.

Cool enough to get you to post in it. And it didn't get lame till around the time you posted. Hmmmm.

[besson3c]

Randman: don't think that I won't fight you for a minute, in this very thread none the less! I'll show you a database error...

[Randman]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

I'll show you a database error...

I'm sure you could.

[Dork.]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

Although something like 60% of the NHL is Canadian. Face it Dork., we are much better than Americans at hockey, and you are wrong.

That's because there are only three state-sanctioned occupations in Canada: Hockey Player, Fur Trapper, and Maple Sugar Miner. All other occupations (like tuba players) are violently thrown out of the country....

[besson3c]

Don't forget winning with Rickey Henderson!

Maybe Rickey didn't like Carlos Santana's guitar playing?

By the way, I don't care if the Santana playing guitar joke is old, I rather like saying it... You should try saying it to some of your colleagues or something, it is really quite liberating!