The Major League Baseball All-Star Game has certainly had its moments. The 1970’s had Reggie Jackson hitting the Tiger Stadium light tower and Pete Rose essentially ending Ray Fosse’s career. The 1980’s might have had something but I was too busy watching MacGuyver and showing everyone I was ‘Too Legit Too Quit’ to care. This decade has brought us a tie based on the reasoning that too many pitchers had been used and the teams couldn’t risk burning out their players in an exhibition (2002), which was such a colossal mess-up that one talk-radio host actually sought to sue MLB to force them to finish the game. In fact, maybe Bud Selig turned a blind eye to this whole steroid situation in the last five years because he wants everyone to forget his George W. Bush caliber blunder with the 2002 All-Star Game.
Nevertheless, I know what the 1990’s brought us in terms of All-Star Baseball. There was John Kruk’s hilarious reaction to a Randy Johnson fastball that almost decapitated Kruk, and this probably would’ve been the most memorable All-Star moment of the 90’s had the ball actually hit Kruk and taken his head off, thus not letting ESPN subject us to his hybrid Rick Astley - Joe Dirt hairdo on Baseball Tonight this decade. But since we have to look at Kruk’s awful locks, the most memorable moment of 90’s All-Star Game baseball was easily Pedro Martinez’s 1999 mastery of a bunch of NL hitters whose physique resembled Big Poppa Pump a little too much for my liking.
Pedro in the 1st Inning…
Pedro in the 2nd Inning…
I particularly enjoy Sammy Sosa almost corkscrewing himself into the ground when he sees Pedro’s breaking ball. I guess the easiest way to beat cheating, ‘roided up hitters is just to be so good they can barely even make contact with the ball.
-NEIL
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