Something tells me that Sheryl Crow was thrilled by the almost-five-hour duration of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game, if only because each half-inning that passed without a team bringing a run home meant even more time between her mewling version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and the game recaps.
While I’m sure the acoustics on the field of Yankee Stadium would challenge even the Steve Vais of our world, I have to wonder whose idea, exactly, it was to force Crow to drag her six-string onto the field last night; the end result wasn’t so much “folk-rock patriot” than it was “is this thing on? I still have to tune up.” Perhaps she wanted to re-establish her singer-songwriter bona fides to a country that seemingly forgot about her recording career, but after listening to the above clip a third, fourth, and fifth time, I’d have to say that just showing off her American-flag tee would have probably worked better as a “statement” for the Fox crowd. [RedLasso]
Sheryl Crow can suck it, that credit-stealing whore. RIP Kevin Gilbert.
Maybe she needed to borrow Billy Joel’s Autotune?
BTW, feel free to talk about the game in this thread. Anyone else think that “safe” call in the bottom of the 15th was a *little* bullshitty?
@Maura Johnston: A little. But frankly, I was expecting a similar game-ending call even sooner. I was shocked that Navarro was called out at the plate in the 11th.
I gave up on this thing about four hours in (30 minutes from the “dramatic conclusion” and went to bed.) Can we revisit having this thing determine World Series home field? Or does Selig have the same Bush-ian “I can never admit I was wrong” disease?
@Reidicus: sadly, the answer to your question is ‘yes.’
So close to both teams being out of pitchers and Selig looking even more douche-y ad ineffectual than usual…yet so far.
I was looking forward to the AL forfeit in the 16th - that would have been a great ending to that game. But yea, the Mets did not impress - David Wright got shamed twice before getting a bloop single, and Wagner blew the game for us. So if the Mets end up screwed by the home field thing, at least we have no one to blame but Billy.