Poetic.

I try very hard to keep my Yankee-hate in check. But after the bad behavior exhibited by said fans tonight, there's something very poetic about the Yankees players not having all that much to do with the win. Jeter and Rodriguez? Offensive duds tonight. Yankee-trained Navarro? The throw to second was just not good. Rivera? Ridiculously lucky to have a couple of double-plays turned behind him. It was also nice that seventy-five percent of the runs scored by the AL tonight came from the two teams that are ahead of them in the division.

Meanwhile, JD Drew seemed to be the only player still interested in playing baseball five hours after the game started. Voted-in by the players to his first all-star team, JD was declared the MVP of the game. A two-run home run, a single, a walk, a stolen base, and a couple of routine catches in right field will do that for you. So yay JD!

I was never particularly high on JD last year. Trot is a hard act to follow and it's even harder when you're the anti-Trot. Maybe it's just because he sucks less this year but he's starting to grow on me. There was a nice interview describing his feelings about going to the All-Star game on SouthCoastToday yesterday in which he comes across as a really good guy.