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Baseball2012 MLB All-Star GameChipper Jonesspeeches

Chipper Jones gave the worst pregame speech ever for the All-Star Game (Video)

July 10, 2012 by Sawley Vickrey • Comments
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Chipper Jones is retiring after the season, making this year the farewell tour for what’s probably been a hall-of-fame career. Evidently that meant Chipper, one of four Braves all-stars, was required to give a stirring pregame speech to inspire NL team (because, as you know, the All-Star Game matters!). Gave a speech, he did. Stirring and inspirational, it was not. Here’s video of the speech, and as you’ll learn, it was a miracle the NL still managed to get out to an early 8-0 lead:

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