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“On behalf of Joe Girardi and Charlie Manuel, who were overcome with temporary insanity, I’d like to publicly apologize to the following players.
- Francisco Liriano
- Joey Votto
- Kevin Youkilis
- Jered Weaver
- Alex Rios
- Josh Willingham
- Ryan Zimmerman
- Felix Hernandez
By any standard you want to use, these eight have to be on the team. You can’t have a 2010 All-Star game without those guys. What a disaster.”
As usual, a pretty sorry collection of “all-stars.”
“ I close with the hope that the title proves prophetic. ”
Roger Ebert, summing up the whole goddamn movie.
When I saw that Green was going to be in goal I went dancing around the house. My sister, who follows the sport almost exclusively through me, rolled her eyes and I asked, “Have you ever even heard of Robert Green?” The answer was, of course, no, and I shouted that that’s because he’s never been worth mentioning before, and this could only be a good thing. I didn’t really think I’d be right, though. So yay for my psychic powers, I guess.