Sez Me … During my halcyon days, when I gorged on so much halcyon my mom had to remove it from the larder, I loved baseball’s All-Star Game.
During my halcyon days, when I gorged on so much halcyon my mom had to remove it from the larder, I lovedEverybody I knew did — and most of the people I didn’t. It was so good, popular, all full of stars, MLB actually had two of them — the second game ran from 1959-62 to aid players’ pension funds, when they didn’t make much money and had to moonlight on other jobs.The other all-star games feel like bad sitcoms.The NFL’s Pro Bowl is a joke and has been for decades. The NBA’s is unwatchable.
There are some stars in this year’s game, but what bothers me most isn’t the caliber of athlete. It’s the passion. The caring. The All-Star Game really wasn’t an exhibition then. There wasn’t interleague play — which I can’t stand — so there was some unfamiliarity, some mystery, to it, genuine player rivalries. And making the winning side the Series host sure hasn’t kissed the boo-boo and made it go away.Still, fans should be allowed one vote. This isn’t Florida.
Cy Young won 511 games, had 315 losses and pitched 7,536 innings. What I want to know: How many quality starts? … If San Francisco somehow allows Jimmy Garoppolo to fly to Seattle, they’ll change the lyrics in Tony Bennett’s song to “the morning brain flatulence may fill the air.” …
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