You know what would be great?
If the All-Star Game had been a few innings longer. I don’t think fifteen was enough.
As I was saying to Dave earlier, I think it would be best if they limited the ASG to nine innings; if it’s drawn after nine, it ends in a tie and they decide home-field advantage for the World Series some other, more sensible way. Though I will say I wanted it to go one more inning to see if Terry Francona actually would have put J.D. Drew in to pitch like he said he would.
Meanwhile, as Mayor of the Internet, it’s my prerogative and civic duty to present the 2008 All-Star Game Least Valuable Player award to Dan Uggla of the Florida Marlins. Zero hits in four at-bats and a new All-Star Game record of three errors — two of them on consecutive plays, which forced poor Aaron Cook into a position where he had to pitch his way out of a bases-loaded, no-outs situation — all adds up to a spectacular showing. Congratulations, Dan Uggla!