)OT) Official All Star game open thread (if anyone is interested.

Submitted by Jim Harbaugh S… on

Figured I'd start an open thread in case anyone is interested.

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Prediction - NL 8 AL 5 - I think this is finally the year the senior circuit stops the streak. 

karpodiem

July 15th, 2008 at 9:29 PM ^

recording it in HD, if anyone cares. Will post a widescreen DVD version of it later on mininova, just to get people more familiar with downloading torrents for mgovideo.com in the Fall.

formerlyanonymous

July 16th, 2008 at 8:03 AM ^

i fell asleep in the 13th.  why can't fox start all the bullshit pregame shit at like 5pm so the game may actually start by 7?  cut off that hour and fifteen of ridiculous pagentry and it would have ended at a decent time of night.  Why do they not play the All Star game on a saturday/sunday?  like with a decent 5pm eastern start?  Is the whole "its always been on a tuesday that big of a deal?"  There's only been 11 times that it was not on a Tuesday in all of this time.  One Sunday, One Thursday, and quite a few Mondays and Wednesdays.  Is it a ratings thing?  I can't imagine the tuesday night all-star game idea wasn't a radio revenue booster as lights didn't first become available until 2 years after the all star game started, therefore revenue wouldn't have been that much bigger for a day game while people were at work (or laid off during the depression).   What's the point?

StevieY19

July 15th, 2008 at 11:33 PM ^

Hard for me to say which broadcast was worse to listen to...last night's derby with Berman or tonight with Buck and McCarver. That's a trifecta of rotten right there.

Blake

July 15th, 2008 at 11:40 PM ^

Berman is loud and annoying, McCarver and Buck are just annoying...which I'm used to being forced to listen to the likes of Rod Allen and Jim Price. At least they haven't had as much Yankee Stadium or Yankee love as I thought they were going to produce tonight (especially with all of the FOX hype leading up to the game)

hat

July 16th, 2008 at 1:10 AM ^

I like how they've mentioned repeatedly how the new Yankee Stadium will be "63% larger" than the old one, despite having about the same capacity. That can only mean one thing: upper deck seats at the new park are going to suck.

mjv

July 16th, 2008 at 9:58 AM ^

The logical reason why the All-Star game is on Tuesday is that by giving the players a day off before and after the game, it only interferes with a single early week series. I would guess that most teams draw better attendance to the weekend series. So 15 teams are unlikely to want to give up more lucrative weekend home stand (15 3 or 4 game sets take place twice a week) than an early week home stand. The catering to the west coast with all of the starting times for sporting events sucks. I was living in ann arbor when the pistons kicked the crap out of the lakers. Every game starting at 9pm and going to midnight was some form of punishment. I'm just not sure for what...

Blake

July 16th, 2008 at 12:46 PM ^

You're right, the catering to the West Coast is ridiculous. Not to bash on those that live out there, but what percentage of the US population lives in either the Eastern or Central time zones? Over 70%?

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.co.uk/time-zone/usa/usa-time-zone-converte…

With the game actually starting just shy of 9pm eastern, even people living on Mountain Time would still be able to watch at 7pm, so only California, Nevada, Oregon Washington and the part of Arizona that doesn't observe Daylight Savings Time would be really affected if they moved the actual start time up an hour. Except for Vegas, Nevada is a land of nothingness, Oregon doesn't have a team, Washington has the Mariners, which is like not having a team (at least this year) and Dodgers fans show up late and leave early, so it's safe to say the rest of the state is either fair-weather or will be snarled in traffic jams no matter how late the game starts.

I don't get what the networks are thinking...even if the game ended in a 3 hour, 9 inning game, it would still be pushing midnight on the east coast when the game ended.

hat

July 16th, 2008 at 12:51 PM ^

The pregame crap was out of control yesterday. Coverage started at 8:00, while the actual first pitch was around 8:45. Here's an idea. Start the pregame stuff at 7:30 and trim it down to a half-hour. Then you can start the actual game (which is all 98.659302% of us care about anyway) at 8:00 sharp.

formerlyanonymous

July 16th, 2008 at 2:21 PM ^

I like all the references to recovering from a heroine addiction, divorcing the wife, Michael Young being a professional hitter (as if the rest weren't), the last game in Yankee Stadium, Yankee Stadium being the house that Ruth built, the Jonathon Papel-bum story, and interview with Yoggie Berra, pregame rallying speeches by George Brett and Ernie Banks, Sheryl Crow singing the national anthem, a pregame concert by some other shitty band, and some guy singing god bless america were the biggest parts of the night.

Desert Blue

July 16th, 2008 at 4:40 PM ^

I don't think Fox is catering to the West Coast audience as much as they are catering to their own agenda. I mean, that pregame stuff was ridiculously long. It's the same every year and they milk it for all its worth. And besides, nobody caters to the West Coast, especially not the media, so suck it up and stay up late, or go to bed.