Game score was 98, but using Game Score 2.0, it was 104.

McCarthy just came back, Ryu didn't do good first game back from injury, and the patch work of Urias, A. Wood, and whoever was scheduled to pitch 3rd, 4th, 5th have barely kept the team afloat.

LAD 51-40, Kershaw 11-2, so in theory, if you discard Kershaw, LAD is no better than 0.500 team.

Tonight's All-Star Game (Or as I like to call it, One Confusing and Convoluted Score Sheet Mess That No One Can Read)

Speaking of changing words that shouldn't be changed, during the singing of Canada's national anthem, O' Canada, the singers (who are Canadian), changed the lyrics. Instead of singing "With glowing hearts we see thee rise, The True North strong and free.", they replaced it with "To our brothers and sisters all lives matter to the brave", in reference to, you know what.

http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/ml...

As a Canadian, sorry for that.

But on a serious note, anytime someone sabotages any national anthem like that, is unacceptable. I think it would be a good idea to keep sports away from politics anyway, although it's kinda hypocritical I said that, 'cause that's what I'm kinda doing...

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Question for you guys. I knew the game was being held in San Diego (an NL team), with the AL being the home team for this game. But looking at Wikipedia, the NL will host <4> straight All-Star games (2015-18). I thought this could be because the AL must've hosted consecutive All-Star games recently, but that hadn't happened since 1961-62.

I think Petco Park is a great park, but TB, OAK and TOR (AL) have waited longer than SD for an All-Star game, and LAD, MIA and WSH have waited longer than SD (NL) for an All-Star game.

Oakland, you don't want to go there, plumbing clog and backed up (google it), stadium's old, old, old. Plus it's really on an earthquake fault. Don't go there.

Toronto. That's a great stadium, hotel right in the outfields, you can watch people making out, or doing the hanky-panky (google it)!

Should the wave to clock-wise, or counter-clock? (For you non-Americans, that would be anti-clock)

Apparently the fans in SD are doing it clock-wise, because the announcer said it looks weird to him.

Whenever we do the wave at Dodgers Stadium, it's always anti-clock-wise. (And I intentionally stand up 3 seconds behind the wave, just because I'm Bugs. =))

Not a fan of either ballparks, but hopefully TB's stadium is a good argument for bringing the Rays up to Montreal.

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If someone asked me to name what I think is the worst ballpark in MLB, it would be that coliseum. The best IMO is Fenway.

Of course, I wasn't really considering stadium or market of those cities, just merely considering how long it's been since a team/city has hosted the mid-summer classic.

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Thanks. :) I've actually been up to the hotel before. I know a guy who knows the guy who apparently holds the top position (so like president or CEO) when it comes to organizing food and all at the Rogers Centre. About once a year, he would personally give free tickets to a Jays' game (100 deck, not nosebleeds) and this card that entitles you to unlimited free food, but he hasn't done it since 2013, which is "coincidentally" the last time I went to a Jays' game. :)

And at LAD, it always start at left field pavilion and after a few tries, third base fans pick it up, then it goes to home plate, eventually it goes go first base then right field pavilion.

If the wave dies by home plate, fans boo, it's kinda verbal reminder to others that "Hey!! Wave going here!!"

Love the history of the wave (google it!!) where it started at U of W and it went up/down the stand, instead of going in a circular motion.

All good baseball fun. =)) >