A Red Sox fan's thoughts on the All-Star Game
Published July 14, 2004
It would be an understatement of considerable proportions to say that I couldn't have cared about this year's All-Star Game, given that the American League team carried eight Yankees on its roster, proving yet again that the Yankees are the Lords Almighty of Major League Baseball. Don't tell me that it was on the strength of fan voting that eight players from the same team were placed on the AL All-Star roster, 'cause I simply ain't buyin' it.
However, two Red Sox players did us proud. Left-fielder Manny Ramirez clocked a home run off Roger Clemens, and designated hitter David Ortiz had two hits in the game, one of them a home run as well. Both players walked away from the game with two RBI's each to their credit, accounting for a good four out of the nine runs scored.
Ramirez and Ortiz did the small - one could almost say token - Red Sox contingent proud and were definitely were key in the American League's 9-4 win over the National League.
Mark Edward Manning grew up in Boston, MA and now lives in London, England. He wrote commentaries for The Boston Herald in the mid 1990s.
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Fantasia's rendering of "Star-Spangled Banner" made me want to denounce my citizenship.
Nothing like a shrill, funked up, gospel-on-crack version of the national anthem to make one want to wield a baseball *bat.
*duck, lady!
Any time Clemens gets slapped around I am a little bit happier. CC didn't do all that much better, though. I missed the Anthem.
Shark: "Nothing like a shrill, funked up, gospel-on-crack version of the national anthem to make one want to wield a baseball *bat. *duck, lady!"
LOL. Good one!
Mark S.: "this was the first time i got to see gagne pitch. geez, that guy brings it."
The fascinating thing about Gagne is that he's not only a damn fine pitcher, but a Canadian - I mean, shouldn't he be playing ice hockey?
...and what was up with the dude they had for that taco bell promotion?
he DID win, but man oh man. he threw like a gurl! (now, of course, a gurl with a pile 'o cash)
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it was pretty enjoyable....except for those silly fox animated segments ("The Sweeping Curveball").
this was the first time i got to see gagne pitch. geez, that guys brings it.