Bud, Bud, Bud, Bud, Bud ...
Only an All-Star Game in Bud Selig's hometown could be as screwed up as this. And oh yeah, they rename the All-Star Game MVP after Ted Williams and don't give it away????????????

Nice game, a number of decent hitting performances from surprise sources (Jimmy Rollins, Paul Konerko, Damian Miller, Omar Vizquel) and those closers can be very flighty in situations like this. I guess keep Byung-Hun Kim away from the big stages and he's fine.

I don't blame both managers for not wanting to send out their pitchers for a third inning and getting the wrath of their managers after the fact. Since both managers want to get all of their players in there, it leaves the bench and the bullpen bare should we come into an extra-innings situation. Both managers keep one pitcher for extra-inning purposes and they used them as far as they could. Unfortunately, Bud played the PR card horribly yet again, holding up the game in the middle of the 11th and then making the decision to call the game a tie before the bottom of the 11th. From the fans perspective, it was a bad call, but from a baseball perspective, it made sense. It just would've been nice for a better explanation.

Maybe it's time to expand the All-Star rosters, although this is a rare case, and you might have two or three pitchers left in the lurch if a game doesn't go extras. And you've got to feel for Joe Torre -- he said he wasn't going to take Barry Zito because he pitched Sunday and got criticized. So he takes Zito, pitches him for a batter, and then gets criticized because of all of what happened later. Or maybe you need to have pitchers, especially the starter and a couple of others, go more than two innings.

Unfortunately, Bud and folks caused more discussion for the negative about baseball. And for good or bad, we got to channel The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training.