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The All-Star Break is No Time For a Break

Jay Jaffe — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:34:00 +0000

So I watched the Home Run Derby and the All-Star Game this year, which is out of character with my recent history, though last year’s game at Yankee Stadium did bring me back into the fold. I couldn’t have done it without my TiVo, however, which reduced my total time expenditure to about three hours ...

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Look Me Over Closely

Jay Jaffe — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:12:00 +0000

I’ve got another Baseball Prospectus/ESPN Insider twin killing today, this time devoted to players who might be left off the two leagues’ All-Star teams. By midnight tonight, the All-Star balloting will have ended, and on Sunday the starting lineups will be announced. Inevitably, deserving players will be left out in the cold (even after managers ...

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The 2008 All-Star Game: This Time It Didn’t Suck

Jay Jaffe — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:58:00 +0000

I’m not the world’s biggest fan of the All-Star Game. Since attending the infamous tie ballgame in Milwaukee in 2002, my allegiance to the so-called Midsummer Classic has been in a downward spiral: •Skipped the 2003 game in favor of a Staten Island Yankees-Brooklyn Cyclones game, where I saw an 18-year-old center fielder named Melky ...

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Watch the All-Star Game? No Foxin’ Way

Jay Jaffe — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:05:00 +0000

Yes, I’m still boycotting the All-Star Game. It sure was tempting to cave in, what with Fox’s seven-year broadcast rights re-up and the choice to play the game in front of the only crowd gullible enough to worship Barry Bonds. But once I stuffed my mouth full of aluminum foil and found an old hemostat ...

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