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FanHouse found this 7/16/2008 on mlb.fanhouse.com [flag]

"TOMMY WANT WINGY!!!!" You know why the All Star Game is important? Because there's nothing else on, that's why. Just kidding, of course. The ASG is awesome, regardless of what cynical people want to tell you. Why? Because of things like Torii Hunter robbing Barry Bonds at the fence. And Randy Johnson buzzing John Kruk . Pete Rose taking a gamble and running over the catcher at home despite ... [link]

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Report: Roger Clemens Received HGH at Home
Published 7/16/2008 at FanHouse
... Last night's marathon All-Star Game -- woe to the livebloggers charged with chronicling that nonsense -- served several functions. One of them: to prove to casual baseball fans just how long and boring baseball can be. Another: to mask new ...

Terry Francona Is Having Some Medical Issues
Published 7/17/2008 at FanHouse
... Last night's All-Star Game took its toll on anyone who stuck around for the distance. The guys from FanHouse who liveblogged the thing have been dragging around like they just went 15 rounds with Ali in his prime. So it wasn't all that surprising to read that ...

Yoooooouuuur 2008 Super Hero All-Stars
Published 7/17/2008 by Brinson at Brahsome - Care To Get Nice?
... With all the likely — and well deserved — hype surrounding the new Batman flick, combined with the collective All Star Game (whose live blog actually gave us this idea) hangover, the brahs somehow managed to knock collective domepieces together and come up with a list of what our superhero All-Star team would be. ...

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Signal to Noise found this 7/16/2008 on www.sportsbybrooks.com

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Rain Delay found this 7/16/2008 on mlb.mlb.com

NEW YORK -- There's something about the All-Star Game that brings out the best in Ichiro Suzuki, ballplayer extraordinaire and sometimes humorist. The Most Valuable Player of the 2007 Midsummer Classic in San Francisco, Ichiro once again put his full ...

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