1. If you didn’t see the game – or couldn’t stay up late to put it to bed – this year’s MLB All-Star Game ended in the bottom of the 15th when Michael Young of the Texas Rangers drove in a run to win the Midsummer Classic for the American League for the third time in two years.
2. Yankee Stadium got a good one to finish out its life.
3. Did anyone see the interview David Letterman did with Bud Selig Monday night on the Late Show?  I’ve not been able to find any video of it, but Letterman chastised Selig for 2002’s ASG in Milwaukee’s spanking-new Miller Park, which notoriously ended in a tie when both leagues’ teams ran out of available pitchers.  Selig surely cannot help but be smug tonight.  Everyone got their money’s worth.
4. Dan Uggla is now the Leon Lett of second basemen.  Leon Lett, you will remember, played defensive line for the Dallas Cowboys from 1991 until 2000.  During that time, Leon managed to not score a touchdown in Super Bowl XXVII, botched the snow game against the Dolphins on Thanksgiving Day, and as one announcer put it, “led the world” in offsides penalties.  Uggla could not field a grounder tonight to save his life, and for that, I’m putting him in the Leon Lett Boneheaded Plays Club.  Uggla finished tonight’s 15 inning game 0 for 5, struck out three times, left six men on base, and committed six errors.  Which leaves two questions: How did this guy make the team?  And are Floridians stuffing ballot boxes again?
5. Tonight’s game must have set new records in baseball history for the number of players thrown out at home (6, by my count) and bunts in any game, anywhere.
6. Joe Buck must have really run out of things to talk about on the air.  About the 13th inning, he started talking about how thin each team’s bullpen looked.  By about the 14th inning, all he had left to talk about was how Scott Kasmir threw 104 pitches in Sunday’s game and his team, the Tampa Bay Rays, left specific instructions with Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona not to let the guy pitch too much.