This may be the last year that it counts. The two year experiment is now over. If I were in the NL, I would think long and hard about whether they ever want home field advantage again. Also, Scooter is still terrible.
Look, I don't mean to gripe for the sake of griping, but something has got to be done about the constant out-and-clear butchering of the national anthem played at these things. I'm not a 100% on this, yet I can't help but feel that Francis Scott didn't write the thing with the thought in the back of his mind being - "this will sound great if every vowel is warbled over and the original notes rejected." Is nothing sacred? And I'm a damn Canadian saying this. Damn Canadians.
I love that the game counts for something now, but I wish they would play it like it counts. Well, I loved the way McKeon used his last position player to pinch hit for another field player in the bottom of the ninth when, if the NL got any rally at all going, he's got no one to hit for the pitcher. Except another pitcher. That's quality managing folks.
The game was over in the first inning, talk about boring. You're not the only one to feel that way, insomnyuk
I think it was Joe Buck who brought up the 'intangibles.' My mistake. I knew one said he was a 'team player' while the other talked of his 'intangibles'.
