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Today’s the day of the Midsummer Classic. And although many of you want to know what’s happening inside the big brick arena, what been happening outside is just as interesting, too. (Well, sort of.) What exactly? For starters, cardboard trash cans and the back of the formidable Rev. Jesse Jackson. (A great man, but simply too fond of collarless shirts.)

Making official something that's been talked about for months, Major League Baseball today announced that the 2007 All-Star Game will be held at the Stadium Formerly Known as Pac Bell Park. Isn't it nice to have some news about Bay Area baseball that doesn't involve injecting things in people's asses? The Giants last hosted the Midsummer Classic in 1984 and also held one in 1961, a game remembered primarily for pitcher Stu Miller getting blown off the mound by the Candlestick wind.