Mid-Summer Classic
Its always nice to see the dog days of July come and we get to see the best of the best in the MLB All Star Game that is played every year. This year’s summer classic was held close to the Alcatraz Island that we call San Francisco. The San Francisco Giants play their games there and was the host for this year’s 2007 All Star Game. The hero and fan favorite was the man that was batting 2nd in the National League’s Lineup. It was that guy that wears the number 25 jersey that we call Barry “James” Bonds (a little Chris Berman humor).
The American League has been dominating this mid-summer classic that is played each year. Things didn’t change much tonight as the America League once again won the game and will have home field advantage in the World Series this year. I will go ahead and predict the Cleveland Indians will be hosting the Milwaukee Brewers in the first game of the 2007 World Series. I really like these two teams and they have some good youth that make up their ball clubs and it won’t surprise me to see Cleveland and Milwaukee playing in a few World Series over the next few years to come.
The highlight of the All Star game came from the at-bat of the MVP of the game. It was when Ichiro Suzuki hit the inside the park homerun that was the main highlight in the game. He rounded the bases fast with his amazing speed after a long fly ball to right field had a funny bounce off the way, and by the time Ken Griffey Jr. ran down the awkward bounce off the wall, it was too late to throw out the Mariner with all the blazing speed.
If you look back 30 years ago and seen what was going on in baseball back in 1977, you would be amazed at all the things that was happening to one team in particular. July of 1977 in New York was surrounded by the big blackout, Son of Sam, and the New York Yankees team. A new show on ESPN The Bronx is Burning is showing all the events that surrounded the NY area 30 years ago.
Maybe next year will be when the National League gets this losing streak off their chest!
