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Wow. I can’t wait until September. I will be glued to the tv set hanging on every word Michael Strahan says. I can’t believe he’s only getting $2.4 million dollars a year!

I don’t know about you but the Fox NFL pregame show is the highlight of my life. I wait until noon every Sunday to get all my sports information.

I wait for Howie and Jimmie and Curt and Terry and now Michael. I don’t read the papers, I don’t hear the radio, heck I don’t even ponder my fantasy team or who I will bet on until noon on Sunday. Then the boys on FOX give me everything I need. Well of couse anything happening in the AFC, but that’s ok, I’m just an NFC fan. The AFC plays that other kind of football with the designated hitter, who cares about them – its all NFC for me and the guys at FOX. Well except for week 7 when they are more interested in baseball playoffs, but that’s ok, Jerry and the Mets will be there.

I love that informative ticker that tells me who the rushing leaders are. I love the weather update for the Superdome. I love Frank Caliendo’s awesome two impressions and now they’ve added Strahan, for only $2.4 million dollars a year!

Boy oh boy I can’t wait. This should be as exciting as ESPN’s “Football On Monday Night” matchups between the Saints and Falcons. Or is it Raiders-Chiefs. Anyway it’s probably a huge game, it always is.

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>Why are we saving the bench? Get Easley in there to relieve Reyes for a few innings. If someone gets hurt – eh forfeit and go home. Or see if Pedro wants to play left for an inning. Who cares, it’s 10 zip.

As for losing two in a row, lets give Jerry some more rope before we panic.

As for you Delgado haters – who do you want to play first?

Why are we saving the bench? Get Easley in there to relieve Reyes for a few innings. If someone gets hurt – eh forfeit and go home. Or see if Pedro wants to play left for an inning. Who cares, it’s 10 zip.

As for losing two in a row, lets give Jerry some more rope before we panic.

As for you Delgado haters – who do you want to play first?

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>As I mentioned in a previous post, I am fully supportive of the All-Star Game being played at Yankee Stadium this year. No other ballpark (or at least site of a ballpark) has had as much history as that building in the Bronx. It deserves it this year.

That said however, how come MLB has completely ignored Shea Stadium over the years? Look, I know Shea has never been the shining star of baseball, but neither have a lot of other places where MLB has hosted the mid-summer classic.

Shea hosted the All-Star Game in the first year of the ballpark, 1964. Since then, 38 ballparks have been used for the game – including six of them TWICE! The list of stadiums selected more than once by MLB is:

Yankee Stadium – 1977 for the reopening and this year. No argument
Anaheim Stadium – 1967 & 1989 – What makes it worse is that the game is going back here for a THIRD time in 2010
The Astrodome – 1968 & 1986 – Twice? Here? I can understand 68 for the opening, but why 86? This place made Shea look like a palace. If anyone can explain to me why this happened I would be very interested to hear.
Riverfront (1970 & 1988)
Three Rivers (1974 & 1994)
Veterans (1976 & 1996) – So three of the four cookie cutters each got in twice. OK, Three Rivers was nice, but the Vet? And the second time was in 1996!

The Mets have often been called the step-child of NY baseball. From MLB’s perspective it would almost seem as if they were baseball’s step-child.