I realize the majority of the Lone Star Ballers have written off ESPN and don't subject themselves to the over-the-top factually deprived broadcasting that is ESPN, but I did so this morning.  I don't often sit down and watch Sportcenter all the way through anymore, but I was bored this morning and wanted to hear some of the All Star talk.  It didn't take long before I thought my head was going to explode.

(-1) Maybe some of you caught this.  This may seem minor, but it is evidence of the general over looking of the Texas Rangers.  In their discussion of the All Star lineups they say Josh Hamilton's name, call it a great story, and say his homerun total and RBI total.  Then the finish the listing the starters.  After this they show us the names of the four Red Sox starters and then the two Yankee starters.  After all of this East Coast-love, they put up the list of AL reserves.  The Talking East Coast Head says, "AL reserves, a heavy dose of AL Central.  Of the eleven players, seven of them hale from the Central.  The only AL West player, Milton Bradley,  at DH and he his likely to start in place of the injured (pause for drama) 'Big Papi'."  THE LIST IS ON THE SCREEN!!!  I was able to read all the names and see that Ian Kinsler and Michael Young are on it.  I am guessing he wasn't sure who they were or who they played for and just assumed they were AL East guys.  Since they are All Stars and his researcher didn't include them in the list of AL Central players they must play for the East and since he didn't recognize them them they must play for Toronto or Baltimore.  Just to rub some salt in the wound, when "revealing" the NL Reserves he mentions Cristian Guzman's NL leading 118 hits.  Hmm, "NL leading"?  That means someone in the AL must have more, right?  I wonder that is?  If ESPN wants to know who that guy is, all they need to do is look at the top of the list for batting average or at the top of the list for runs scored.  I will stop before my blood pressure gets too high.

(-21)  In their "Quest for Title Town USA" they featured the city of Pittsburgh.  In their video montage of the Pittsburgh's championship history, there is no mention of Roberto Clemente.  He was responsible for two of their titles, MVP of one series, had a base hit in every single playoff game he played in and is a legendary figure in baseball as a whole.  He was 10 times the player the mentioned Stargell was and he was 1000 times the player the mentioned Mazeroski was.