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How Jim Leyland Gave Mariano Rivera The Perfect Moment
For all its aggressive pointlessness, the All-Star Game can do ceremony like none other. Last night was maybe the best example of that since 1999, when baseball's All-Century Team took the field at Fenway: Mariano Rivera, with just a few more months left in his singular career, had the field all to ...

Prince Fielder Hitting A Triple While McCarver Recites “Enter Sandman”
Some strange things happened at tonight's All-Star Game in New York. A Kansas City player got a hit, for one. (The last Royal to do that was Bo Jackson.) Yankees closer Mariano Rivera entered the game in a save situation, but didn't earn the save. The weirdest parts, though? That Prince Fielder hit...

Here's Security Tackling The All-Star Game Idiot, As Called By Jim Ross
You knew it was coming, didn't you?...

All-Star Game Idiot On The Field Did It Because Twitter Told Him To
Twitter user @MasoneDylan said he'd run onto the field if his tweet got 1,000 retweets. It did, and he did, and reports say he got quite the thumping from Citi Field security....

Hey, the All-Star Game Is Finally Here! I Said, the All-Star Game Is Fi ... Oh, Forget It
No one who was playing professional baseball the year that I last watched an entire All-Star Game from start to finish is still playing today. Not one single player. Which is a fancy way of saying that I haven't watched an All-Star Game in decades. Now, I understand that literally hundreds of baseba...

Reminder From MLB: That Tie In The All-Star Game Never Happened
Citi Field's out-of-town scoreboard this afternoon shows the results of 16 recent MLB all-star games. But something's missing. Bud Selig must have been hoping you wouldn't notice. This display basically ensures that you do. ...

SO MANY MASCOTS
When you can't sleep tonight, blame Adam Rubin....


Bob Nightengale Is An All-Star Of Pearl-Clutching
Poe's Law, PED edition—Take a look at this lede, and just try to convince me this is real outrage and not a parody of concern-trolling:...


Yasiel Puig Not Named To N.L. All-Star Team (Yet)
Baseball, more than any other sport, is a gold mine of stupid arguments with no clear winners. Whether Yasiel Puig is an All Star is just the latest opportunity for people to yell at each other....

Grumpy Hater Jonathan Papelbon Doesn't Think Yasiel Puig Is An All-Star
Everyone loves Yasiel Puig, because Yasiel Puig has done nothing but be completely awesome since being called up by the Dodgers one month ago. Everyone except Phillies closer Jonathan Papelbon, that is, who thinks that it would be "a joke" if Puig made the National League all-star team....

Mets Approached Cougar Site About Stuffing Ballot Box For David Wright
When the first vote totals for the MLB All-Star Game were released last week, David Wright was in second. A desperate Mets marketing department didn't want Wright to lose to Pablo Sandoval for the second year in a row, especially not with the game being held at Citi Field. So one employee decided t...

LeBron Considering Magic Johnson's $1 Million To Compete In The Dunk Contest
LeBron's been on a highly-publicized tear recently, where he's completed insane dunk after insane dunk in the layup line while dressed in full sweats to prove to everyone, we guess, that even though he's not going to compete in the dunk contest, he would win if he tried. Then when people took to Tw...

Lil Wayne Says He Humped Chris Bosh's Wife
Hey everyone, Lil Wayne is being crazy again. Wayne gave a performance in Houston last night as part of the NBA All-Star Weekend festivities, and he took some time out of his set to take his beef with the Miami Heat to Defcon 1. Recall: Wayne was recently involved in some kind of kerfuffle at a Lak...

Your NBA All-Star Game Open Thread
Here's your spot to talk about all things All-Star Game-related and no things All-Star Game-unrelated....

"I Am A Nasty Cribbage Player": NBA All-Stars Discuss What They Could Beat Michael Jordan At Today
The Basketball Jones did a twist on the usual Michael Jordan's birthday fare. Acknowledging that he is one of the most competitive humans on the planet (and pretty good at basketball), TBJ went around asking the All-Stars in Houston what they could beat MJ at, at his advanced age....


