MLB All-Star Game, kids' Sandlot segment and Junior Caminero exits after hit-by-pitch
Hey man you should check out the All-Star Game. All the baseball fans I know fucking hate it.
No all star game is really any good but only baseball's seems to actively piss of its fans
1 part baseball/3 parts Fox blahblah/3 parts ads for AI, prediction markets and pervert glasses
The baseball-to-extraneous-crap ratio is just so far out of whack this year on an unfathomable level.
They set off enough fireworks to terrify every dog in Pennsylvania.
Why isn’t anyone doing backflips before catching the ball?
coming around to the idea of taking the worst qualifying pitchers in the league and pitting them against all the best hitters
It would’ve been cool to see and hear Brandon Marsh get a rousing ovation in his first All-Star game in his home park but instead we had to listen to Justin Verlander talk through a broken microphone in the dugout
I’m not sure how long I will last watching the game. The Fox announcers and the dugout miked up completely stinks. They never shut up.
Broken mic is better than Rodriguez, Ortiz, and jeter. ‘Let’s put 3 guys - 2 of whom tested positive for steroids - who don’t like each other, and have them yuck it up like it’s a football bro pregame.’
No surprise that Fox fucked this up.
These relievers are warlocks. Nobody can hit them. The All-Star Game would be more fun if they used the Nationals bullpen.
hitting the baseball was always the hardest thing in sports but it has somehow become significantly harder because the sport is now full of unholy demons who can throw wiffle balls at 99 miles an hour
Don’t know why the Nats are catching strays from Joe Posnanski, but he’s not wrong! 🤣
Tired: Brandon Lowe, Bryan Reynolds, Ryan O'Hearn, and/or Nick Gonzales should have been All-Stars Wired: Dennis Santana should have been an All-Star
We already had the Home Run Derby
This MLB All-Star Game telecast seems devoted to the principle that the audience should have to spend as little time as possible paying attention to a baseball game.
In 2026, what share of the MLB All-Star Game viewing audience are actually casual fans any more?
Sucks because baseball as a TV product is primed for a return the 3 hour games are perfect. Stop the blackout bs and cultivate fans.
It's the "ads in the Superbowl " and "red carpet fashion at the Oscars" thing, where, trying to get every possible viewer, they ignore the event itself.
The fact that the player interviews have been inaudible has been a huge bummer. It seemed like they were legitimately annoying the players. And the announcers have not had nearly enough to talk about to cover for it
Glad to know my reaction to the game wasn't just me. Between the derby on Netflix and this shit coverage of a game... can't wait to get back to a good old-fashioned D-Backs game with old school references and attention to the game.