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Is anyone a bigger fan of Chris Berman than Chris Berman? (And I mean "bigger" in both the literal and figurative senses.)

Holy crap are those mustard yellow All Star warm-up jerseys hideous. Did Chris Berman design them?

Either David Ortiz brought his posse with him last night or he has a 24 year old kid. How did he get past security? Oh that was Mark Loretta? Interesting...

Do you get the idea that Karl Ravich cries himself to sleep every night? Me too.

I liked the stunned silence by the panel when Jonathan Pappelbon admitted that he bet $100,000 on Ortiz to win... and he was serious. I think I heard Harold Reynolds whisper to someone off camera, "shouldn't we.... um... go to commercial?"

Ryan Howard won the Derby by knocking off someone I'd never heard of in the final round. After Bobby Abreu won last year and then has stunk since, I'm sure the Phillies hitting coach is thrilled. By they way, I think whenever Ryan Howard's name is mentioned, it should be immediately followed by "...who is black" because I can't seem to remember that for some reason.

Then it was on to the 2006 Legends/Celebrity Softball Game. Two words: bloody masterpiece. They should just send that tape directly to the Broadcasting Hall of Fame. The game of course featured Dean Cain, who you might remember from such television programs as the 2005, 2004, 2003 and 2002 Legends/Celebrity Softball games. I feel bad for Dean Cain actually. He was frigging Superman! What does he need to do to be famous again, fall off a horse?

I was disappointed that Rick Sutcliffe decided to do the commentary on the game sober. If ever there was a time to be loaded on the air, this was it.

Who could possibly turn away from the awkward moments between Jimmy Kimmel and his girlfriend and comedienne, Sara Silverman. Kimmel has the same look in his eye that Scott Peterson had a few days before Laci went missing.

The All Star Game is tonight on Fox... Brought to you in part by {insert name of new Fox fall show that won't last 3 weeks}.