All the festivities over the last few days leads up to the big game tonight, the 2010 All-Star game. Going into the game, the Mets originally had two players that would represent the club, Jose Reyes and David Wright. Wright will be a starter while Reyes was originally placed on the roster as an injury replacement, but now he has an injury note as well, so Furcal will now replace Jose. Anyway the rosters are loaded. There are two story lines going into this game. The first is this game continues the rather recent tradition of the game meaning something as the winning league gets home field advantage for the World Series. As like anything that carries that importance in baseball, that decision is still controversial. The other story line would be the American League winning 13 out of the last 14 All-Star games (there was one tie in there). Could this finally be the year whent he National League wins one? I hope so. Lets take a look at the batting order. First the American League, with their starter David Price (the youngest All-Star starting pitcher since Dwight Gooden):
2) Jeter
3) Miguel Cabrera
4) Hamilton
5) Guerrero
6) Longoria
7) Mauer
8) Cano
9) Crawford
And your National League batting order with starter Ulbado Jimenez:
2) Prado
3) Pujols
4) Howard
5) Wright
6) Braun
7) Ethier
8) Hart
9) Molina
2) This being a huge motivating factor for players like Prado and Infante.
3) David Wright, Ryan Howard, Braun and Ethier using this time to make a pact to all join the Marlins one day when they are all free agents. Oh wait, wrong sport? Oh,that was the USA Basketball team when Lebron, Wade and Bosh did that. Oh ok, I guess I'm not worried anymore.
