Unless there’s good reason to do otherwise, I’m going to take a couple of days to get ready for the rest of the season. Curious about how many of you made it through the game last night/this morning. I got suckered into it and went the distance. Lots of good baseball, although as the game was getting to the 11th and 12th innings, I was kind of thinking that it would be nice to have a Rincon-like character, or Josh Hamilton’s 71-year-old batting practice pitcher, to pitch for both teams so they could get some hits and end the thing.

A few quick thoughts:

*The Minnesota contingent acquitted itself quite well. Nice to hear all the love for Joe Nathan.

*Watching Dan Uggla in the field was like watching a hockey game for the fights or NASCAR for the crashes.

*Buck’n'McCarver were absolutely, positively awful in more ways than I care to detail. I used to like Joe Buck, even when it was popular to trash him, but something has gone way wrong. Maybe it was being deified in that Holiday Inn Express commercial. In contrast, I loved the radio call of the winning run: “Here comes Morneau… Here comes the throw… Safe! Safe! The American League wins it!”

*Did anyone else notice that Willlie Mays continued talking to Kasuke Fukudome and paid absolutely no attention to Hamilton when he ran out into center field during pregame introductions?

*Let’s be done with the whining about Justin Morneau’s perceived lack of recognition. Keep it up and you’ll start sounding like Brett Favre.

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