1) Stand Up 2 Cancer (SU2C) PSA (I’m not sure why but every time I watch this PSA I tear up..)

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Last night’s annual MLB All Star Game took 15 innings to settle and those 15 innings took 4 hours and 50 minutes to play. Now, I enjoy a good game of baseball every now and then, especially when I get to see the best of the entire league, but 5 hours seems a bit long to watch men hit balls with sticks. If you’re on that same page, you might want to check out one of the 9 baseball movies below (in honor of the appropriate amount of innings). If you’re a baseball fan you’ve probably seen them all, but perhaps it’s time to try them out again, they never really go out of style. Also they’re all under 2 hours long, leaving you time to do something crazy like actually play baseball instead of watching it on TV.

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1) Eight Men Out (pictured above) - John Sayles portrait of the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox and the controversey surrounding the possibility that they lost on purpose is a quiet gem of a film. It could easily be alarmist and focus only on the scandal, instead Sayles explores the people and the game they loved.

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Curt Schilling has opted to have surgery on his injured shoulder on Monday, forgoing any chance of returning to baseball this season. The 41 year old Boston Red Sox pitcher may have even thrown his last game in Big Leagues depending on the outcome of the operation.

“My season is over and there is a pretty decent chance I have thrown my last pitch forever.” Schilling told WEEI Radio in Boston. The right handed starter has been on the disabled list since Spring Training with a tendon injury to his shoulder.

Schilling told fans on his personal blog, 38 Pitches, that he will not choose to return to baseball unless he feels he can continue to excel, writing:

“Coming back from this surgery at 31 would be an enormous challenge, at 41 more so. BUT, if that is an option at least I’ll be able to make that decision with all the cards on the table, and it will end on terms I choose. I won’t come back throwing 85 with so-so crap. If there is not an option to come back and be good, I won’t.”

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The New York Mets have fired manager Willie Randolph. Saddled with a disappointing 34-35 record and nearing the halfway point of in the season, the Amazin’s did what many had speculated about (or begged for) ever since the team’s heartbreaking meltdown at the end of the 2007 season in letting the manager go.

In his third season with the Mets, Randolph was handed a team with the highest payroll in the National League ($138 Million), which included the acquisition of the top left-handed starting pitcher in baseball in Johan Santana, yet could not make a winner out of the ballclub. Pitching coach Rick Peterson and first base coach Tom Nieto were released along with Randolph. Bench coach Jerry Manuel will pick interim managing duties for the team.

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Really, everyone is standing up to cancer:

The Big Three television networks NBC, CBS and ABC have never done anything like it before. On Friday, Sept. 5, their news anchors Brian Williams, Katie Couric and Charles Gibson, respectively will sit on one set for a commercial-free, prime-time simulcast entitled Stand Up to Cancer. [MSNBC]

Major League Baseball is teaming up with entertainers, foundations, businesses and three of the top four television networks — ABC, CBS and NBC — in the quest to find a cure for cancer.

The new initiative, called “Stand Up To Cancer,” was introduced on Wednesday morning on all three networks and at press conferences at the Paley Center for Media in New York. It will also be introduced in Beverley Hills later today.

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Major League Baseball, the organization that brought you the designated hitter, interleague play, and had a hand in Fever Pitch, has finally done something right and has started a green initiative.   All 32 teams are involved, but most notably, the Seattle Mariners, on Earth Day,

teamed up with Cedar Grove Composting for the first “carbon-neutral” game in the big leagues. To achieve carbon-neutral status, the Mariners offset the global-warming impact of energy used at Safeco Field during the game between the Mariners and Orioles.

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