ARod is everywhere, ARod is everything, ARod is everybody, ARod is still the king

I don't think they should discuss records before/after the All Star Break because it's not always the same number of games.  Know what I mean?  The records should just be judged on first 81 games and second 81 games.

Anyway, that is just about all I'm going to say about the All Star Game:

"The last time we had an All-Star Game in New York it went 15 innings and didn’t end until nearly two in the morning at the old Yankee Stadium and the longer the game went, the more it became this crazy baseball party, down where I sat with my sons in the stands and all over the ballpark, as everybody who stayed began to wonder how — and when — the game would ever end."

Congratulations, you went to the All Star Game.  It's about you.

"And when it was finally over that night, after Justin Morneau came home on a sacrifice fly in the 15th inning, this is what Derek Jeter — who stayed until the end even though he had come out of the game hours ago, who was standing on the top step of the dugout with AL manager Terry Francona when others like Alex Rodriguez were long gone — said about the last All-Star Game at the real Stadium, which means the old one:

'It seemed like the Stadium didn’t want it to end. That’s what we were talking about. It just wanted baseball to continue.' "

No one ever taught Lupica about a run-on sentence?

"Trust me on this, my boys have seen a lot of baseball in their lives, and all of them can still tell you exactly where they were sitting when they first saw Junior Griffey hit a home run on a Saturday afternoon at the old Stadium. But if you ask them the most pure-fun night they ever spent at a ballpark, they will all tell you the same thing:

That All-Star Game at the old Stadium. On the night when Derek Jeter, who stayed until the end and acted as if he could have been sitting right in front of us instead of standing there with Terry Francona and watching the game like a kid himself, said the Stadium didn’t want the game to end."

It's about you and your kids.

"And yet:

The player who will dominate the conversation is another Yankee who will not be there, and that is Alex Rodriguez, who met with Major League Baseball’s investigators on Friday in the Biogenesis case. And even if A-Rod took the Fifth, as so many of the other Biogenesis All-Stars have, somebody must have been doing some talking down there in Tampa if the meeting between MLB and A-Rod took as long as the 2008 All-Star Game at the old Stadium."

I don't think ARod will dominate the conversation in any way.  Chris Davis, Miguel Cabrera, Matt Harvey, Max Scherzer, Yasiel Puig for starters.

In any case, Lupica's obsessions are clearly showing. 

The 2013 All Star Game has basically nothing to do with the 2008 All Star Game.  The 2013 All Star Game has basically nothing to do with Alex Rodriguez.  The 2013 All Star Game has basically nothing to do with MLB's recent meeting with Alex Rodriguez.

But this is how Lupica bizarrely linked these disconnected events: 

• The 2013 All Star Game is taking place in the same metropolitan area as the 2008 All Star Game.
• The 2008 All Star Game took a long time. 
• The recent meeting between MLB and ARod may have taken a long time.  
• Therefore, ARod.

Then, he complains how everybody is obsessed with ARod.

"So maybe now A-Rod has a better sense of what MLB has on him. So that is the beginning of All-Star Weekend ’13 for No. 13 of the Yankees, as he continues his rehab, as there is a ticking clock on his 20 rehab days, as everybody who has followed baseball’s investigation of the players suspected of getting baseball drugs from this Bosch at this phony clinic of his in Coral Gables waits to see if he will end up suspended, and if Ryan Braun will end up suspended."

'13 for No. 13!

Don't you see?  Don't you get it?  OK, let me explain a little better.  Alex Rodriguez wears number 13 and the current year is 2013.

This is gold.  Comedy gold, you bozos.  If I just keep using it for the rest of the year, I'm sure you people will come around.

"That is where baseball is now, five years after the last All-Star Game in New York, one of the most famous of them all, when the only clock we cared about was the one in the outfield at the old Stadium, the one that said it was 1:38 in the morning, and the Stadium didn’t want to let go and nobody wanted to go home."

What the hell was that all about?  That was just a bunch disconnected thoughts in which you criticized ARod as often as possible, followed by an incoherent conclusion.