The All Star Game last night was a joke for many reasons. Before the game even started, the Derek Jeter circle jerk was already in full swing (stroke?). Considering the amount ESPN has been blowing LeBron for making the easiest PR, money, and basketball decision of his career, I wasn't in an especially gracious mood for Jeets. Then Wainwright gives him a meatball after a lengthy standing ovation. As an AL fan, I did not have much of a problem with the pitch, as Chan Ho Park did the same thing for Cal Ripken in 2001 (before the All Star Game mattered). While I agree that it's completely retarded the ASG determines home field advantage in the World Series, Wainwrong was far dumber to admit that he gave Jeter a meatball. Why say anything? Maybe he was embarrassed for getting torched in an inning that should've been Kershaw's. Maybe he was just joking, as he claimed later while walking back his comments. Either way, keep your mouth shut, since no one needs to hear that Jeter got a pity pitch to hit in his final pity All Star Game start. That was just too much for me. Additionally, there was an eerie passing of the Yankee torch feeling for me as Trout took home the MVP, just one more thing that irked me last night.
And this graphic will never get old.
UPDATE - I forgot to mention how Fox completed dropped the ball on a Tony Gwynn tribute. God forbid we salute the greatest hitter in the last 35 years. Oh ya, he wasn't a Yankee. Got it. And this pregame prediction is creepily accurate.
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