MLB All-Star Game 2014: Derek Jeter bids farewell

Jeff Passan had the tweet retweeted around the world:

People had opinions, the kind of instant I’ve-thought-about-this-for-five-seconds opinions that the Internet is best at. Wainwright left his media obligations thinking he’d just made a bevy of harmless, one-day-at-a-time-110-percent comments, but quickly found himself rolling his words into a tortilla and wolfing them down.

Via Jeff Passan, what you suspected is now confirmed:

Two thoughts:

There is a problem of authenticity. Somewhere in the early 1990s I got into an argument that nearly ended a longtime friendship. “Arthur” reported he had just been to one of the best concerts he had ever seen, a show by the longtime top-40 jazz-rock/power-ballad band Chicago.

I’ve never been a Chicago fan. They are not the inspiration, I am sorry. I don’t want to spend “Saturday in the park,” and “25 or 6 to 4” is not a score in any sport that I am aware of, though I will concede that they asked the right question when they sang, “Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?” because I don’t care. I’m late for every appointment and I like it that way. Tastes vary and if you groove to the sounds of the former Chicago Transit Authority, I cannot fault you, but then, that’s not really what this is about.

The 2014 MLB Home Run Derby proved similar to past derbies in many respects — long and drawn out, occasionally astounding, and filled with more “back-back-back” jokes than is healthy for one night.

(But Cespedes did struggle a bit with his WWE championship belt and the trophy.)

Gordon earned his second career All-Star selection after hitting .268/.348/.425 through 88 games. He has been dealing with a sore right wrist, though the Royals have yet to place him on the disabled list.