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2008 7 16 Gil Santos Commentary

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Play from 0:00[0:00] ..." Well 85 year old Yankee Stadium most of its fourth and final Major League Baseball all star game last night they're going to tear the place down after the season and go into the new one point three billion dollar Yankee Stadium next year. Well the final game at Yankee Stadium for the all stars certainly turned into a very long farewell. So log in fact at the house that Ruth built was half -- when the game ended at 1:37 this morning it started a DOS. And ended four hours and fifteen minutes later the longest all star game in history won the American League for three on a Michael young's sacrifice fly in the last half of the fifteenth and this all star game was a prime example of how great Major League Baseball can be to watch and how utterly maddening it can also would be to watch. There are those who love baseball because there was no time limit what the other major sports or count me as one who has a real problem with the fact that there's no time limit and I know you can't time baseball. But let's face it. Four hours and fifteen minutes of sitting and watching a baseball game. Really is an entertainment as much as it is torture. Proof of that was -- at Yankee Stadium was half -- empty depending on whether an optimist or pessimist. Anyway the game also going in late -- drove home to"...

Play from 0:00[0:00]" Well 85 year old Yankee Stadium most of its fourth and final Major League Baseball all star game last night they're going to tear the place down after the season and go into the new one point three billion dollar Yankee Stadium next year. Well the final game at Yankee Stadium for the all stars certainly turned into a very long farewell. So log in fact at the house that Ruth built was half -- when the game ended at 1:37 this morning it started a DOS. And ended four hours and fifteen minutes later the longest all star game in history won the American League for three on a Michael young's sacrifice fly in the last half of the fifteenth and this all star game was a prime example of how great Major League Baseball can be to watch and how utterly maddening it can also would be to watch. There are those who love baseball because there was no time limit what the other major sports or count me as one who has a real problem with the fact that there's no time limit and I know you can't time baseball. But let's face it. Four hours and fifteen minutes of sitting and watching a baseball game. Really is an entertainment as much as it is torture. Proof of that was -- at Yankee Stadium was half -- empty depending on whether an optimist or pessimist. Anyway the game also going in late -- drove home to me once again. The point that they should play this game in the daytime. It's summer it's the all star game it's the baseball's showcase children -- on school vacation they -- watched the whole thing you've had been a big game. How many of baseball's future paying customers do you think were allowed to stay up until 1:37 this morning that's right known they could be destroyed their future by plane that night. I don't -- WBZ sports."

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