Maybe you all will recognize the truth of the message that it is Garner not Hoffman that blew the AllStar Game if it comes from a different messanger.

-CareBear

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Garner's just as responsible as Hoffman
By Rob Neyer ESPN Insider Archive

I don't think I've said this many times or written it ever ... but I completely agree with John Kruk: Phil Garner blew this game in the ninth just as surely (and with significantly more premeditation) as Trevor Hoffman did.

It was simply unconscionable of Garner to lose a one-run game without using Andruw Jones and Scott Rolen ... particularly since the ninth inning featured lesser defensive players in left field and at third base. Somehow, Garner's late ineptitude managed to reverse-trump the early ineptitude of Ozzie Guillen, who somehow decided to favor Kenny Rogers with two innings, Johan Santana with one, and Francisco Liriano with none. I'm sure we could parse all the other substitutions and non-subsitutions, but those do a pretty good job, I think, of summing up the seriousness with which the managers took their assigned chores.