a long wild night
i cant believe the all star game went as long as it did. it ran 15 long innings and was really only inches away from going more. after having multle plays at the plate and after stranding multiple runners in scoring position, justin morneau of the twins was finally able to slip by brian mccann's tag at home and score the winning run. i found it all pretty exciting...though i probably would have gone to bed if the game would have gone into the 16th. i mean, the game was only like 10 min shy of lasting 5 hours. pretty crazy for an all star game. like i said though, it was all pertty exciting for me and i actually enjoyed watching the entire game. the pitching was dominant, the hits and homeruns came at key times, and the drama of sitting through inning after inning, though tiring, was still very suspensful...especially since terry francona was out of bench players and was exteremly limited on how long he could pitch his final reliever (who he was forced to put in the game at the top of the 15th). im sure all of the american league dugout was starting to wonder what they were going to do if the game went in to the 16th, 17th, or 18th innings. maybe francona could have gotten a field player to come in and try his hand at pitching...or maybe bud selig would have been forced to call the game a tie or something (which would not have been cool...baseball is not soccer). anyway, despite being long, i thought the all star game was overall pretty enjoyable to watch.
