Major League Baseball fans were surprised to wake up this morning to find that the 2008 MLB All-Star game was, in fact, still being played, tied at 3-3.
Television stations have reported that the vast majority of the viewing audience tuned out when the game entered the 13th inning. No one thought the game would go past the 13th, let alone be played for 26 more.
Up until that point, each side had used 29 pitchers. After the 16th inning, calls were immediately made to surrounding ball clubs. First in was Johann Santana, who was fast asleep and didn't expect to have anything to do with the All-Star game considering the year he has been having.
After his inning came and went, the calls kept going out. The scheduled pitchers for the 36th inning were San Francisco Giant's Barry Zito and Seattle Mariner's Carlos Silva, because they were the only ones awake and weren't doing anything at the time.
The stats so far were that the National League had left 67 runners on base and the American League had left 76 runners. However, the players weren't standing, but rather seemed to be in the third stage of REM sleep.
It was only thanks to stadium security cameras that any information on the game was still available, because all announcers staged a walk-out at approximately 4:30 AM, stating, "F*** this s***, home field advantage can kiss our collective a****."
Only three Yankee and Red Sox fans still haunt the stands, as neither is willing to admit that they just don't give a good GD anymore who wins.
Reports say that fresh truckloads of Red Bull and Rockstar energy drinks are being supplied intravenously to the remaining players that still give a flying f***.
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2 months ago
pretty good.
2 months ago
nice
2 months ago
I can almost see this happening...
...almost.
2 months ago
I watched the whole thing.
Every other inning starting in the top of the 21st, Tim McCurver gave updates on Tim Lincecum's condition and in the bottom of the 27th, Joe Buck started rambling on about who should have won The Bachelorette.
Brett Favre was also picked up by the National League in the 24th only to leave the stadium in the 29th. In the 33rd he woke up Chris Mortenson to tell him that he decided he was coming back and eventually had a walk off hit by pitch (he took a fastball to the chin) with the bases loaded to win the game.
Aaron Rodgers was the pitcher.
from 2 months ago
Man, I wish I had stayed awake for that.
from 2 months ago
I didn't even stay awake that long.
I just heard the story because Brett Favre's aunt sent me a text message.
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