Matt Cassel to play in Celebrity Softball Game
 

Jon Hamm, Chord Overstreet, Haley Reinhart and more to play in the 2012 Taco Bell All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game
Kansas City’s Eric Stonestreet, Matt Cassel and Bill Self to play in front of home crowd alongside Royals Legends and Baseball Hall Of Famers


The 2012 Taco Bell All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game on ESPN will feature star-studded talent from music, television and sports alongside former Kansas City Royals greats and Baseball Hall of Famers on July 8th at Kauffman Stadium.

“Modern Family” Emmy Award winner and Kansas City native Eric Stonestreet; Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel; and University of Kansas Men’s Basketball Head Coach Bill Self are scheduled to participate alongside Golden Globe winner and “Mad Men” star Jon Hamm; Chord Overstreet from “Glee”; American Idol contestant Haley Reinhart; “Desperate Housewives” actor James Denton; captain of the US National Soccer team Carlos Bocanegra; actor and comedian Horatio Sanz; country music artist David Nail; American Idol winner, David Cook, who used to work at the Stadium Club in Kauffman Stadium; reigning UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon “Bones” Jones; Paul Dimeo from “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”; and USA Softball’s Gold Medalist hurler Jennie Finch.

Past MLB stars also are schedule to participate, including former Royals greats George Brett, Bo Jackson and Mike Sweeney plus Hall of Famers Ernie Banks, Andre Dawson, Rollie Fingers, Rickey Henderson, Ozzie Smith and Dave Winfield as well as perennial All-Stars Joe Carter and Mike Piazza.

The Taco Bell All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game features Major League Baseball legends with celebrities from TV, movies and music, and is the second game of a fun doubleheader of activity at Kauffman Stadium during Taco Bell All-Star Sunday. Preceding the softball game will be the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game at 5:00 p.m. Eastern, featuring some of MLB’s best young prospects from the U.S. and around the world. Current Royals players Eric Hosmer, Billy Butler and Alex Gordon are among the many young stars in baseball who have played in this game, including Justin Verlander, Prince Fielder and Joey Votto.

Following the softball game, the skies above Kauffman Stadium will be lit by a spectacular fireworks show to cap off Taco Bell All-Star Sunday.

The Taco Bell All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game will be televised by ESPN at approximately 10:30 p.m. Eastern immediately following the State Farm Home Run Derby which begins at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on Monday, July 9th. The Game will also be available on ESPN3.com, ESPN Mobile TV and via the WatchESPN app.

maybe someone spikes his ass

BLOW THAT ACL

Somebody take out his knees....

How come Bo Jackson had to blow out his hip and Matt Cassel can't?

Bill Self and Cassel...maybe Self can coach him up.

i hope he plays better softball than QB.

Wow the "celebrities" are a bunch of nobodies.

Hopefully he doesn't pitch. He will miss the plate every time by about 5 yards.

I hope John Hamm beats him to death with a wiffle ball bat.

ROFL
that's our boy Howdy.

Kansas city is due for another athlete to need tommy John surgery. With any luck Cassel will blow his elbow out.

All kidding aside, I'll bet he does.

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Yeah, no one has ever even heard of Modern Family or Mad Men. Are those on PBS or something?

sweep the leg.....sweep the leg!

yeah, after i posted i realized he cant be as bad at softball as he is as QB in KC.

no way.

You guys are assholes. That's our starting qb you're wishing injury on.

Stay classy

I hope he suffers a career ending injury.

i dont wish an injury on him, i just want him long gone from Kansas City.

bet he sucks at softball too.

Sam Mellinger ‏@mellinger

Some boos mixed with cheers for Matt Cassel here at #ASG. That's cold, #KC. #Chiefs

Thank you, Chiefs fans.

The only louder ones should be if they put Pioli's mug on the jumbo-tron.

"Break a leg, Matt!"

"Gee, thanks for wishing me luck!"

"No, we mean it literally! Break a leg!"

musta been a lot of Planeteers in attendance

Break a leg ya son of a bitch.

Who the **** is pitching. Someone tell him I got a thousand bucks for him if he plunks Cassel and anything is fractured.

Josh Looney ‏@JoshLooney

Celebrity softball outfield: Matt Cassel playing left field next to Ricky Henderson in left center #Chiefs #CelebrityGame


Come on Ricky run into him

Awesome that Cassel and Belf Self were booed quite a bit.

Doesn't have the arm for RF.

ROFL

Never change, Chiefsplanet.

Josh Looney ‏@JoshLooney

Back to back to back #glee kid after Sweeney and Self. Ok I'm done tweeting #CelebSoftball but it's a fun event

My response to Looney:

You must have hated it when 30,000 people jumped to their feet and cheered when Bill Self hit the ball over the fence.

It was also awesome how the fans got Bo to come to the plate, by chanting "we want Bo", he had to have pinch runner though and he popped out to end game. It was an awesome day!

Cassel officially has more celebrity softball experience than college QB experience.

Self tried to quiet the noise by hitting an unlikely home run, but it didn’t work. Self was booed as he rounded the bases.

It's a Kansas City!!!!

Classy and CP arent something that really go together...

Karma loves CP See last season.

He has more college QB experience than you have experience with women...

I was there partner ... I'm not sure what you were watching, but he was booed pretty hard the whole game. There was some KU supporters trying, but he was mostly booed.

Okay great...

So what does this do for everyone?

Haters gonna hate.

Obviously nothing ... It was all fun and games. Nothing for KU fans to get butt hurt about.

Bet casshole stikes out in slow pitch softball.

Sign of respect.

Break a leg...

he didn't sadly

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LOL GOOD1BRO!!!!

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Poor show KC fans.

Poor show.

Apparently this game will be broadcast tonight. Arrowhead Pride will have video of Cassel getting booed.

I am so excited.

Fans booed K.C. Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel during introductions, but gave him polite applause during his at-bats.

ROFL

"Thanks guys, I only had my appendix removed and played football 4 days later for you."

GOD WHAT A PRICK

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Reading some posts on AP today LMAO

http://www.arrowheadpride.com/2012/7...all-star-game#

Like a Boss

Royals fans booing anyone is laughable. The team is the laughing stock of MLB and they boo a guy who has been to the playoffs in the past couple of years? WTF have the Royals done over the past 30 years. The Walmart Royals fans really shouldn't be booing anyone but their miserable franchise.

Um, those Royals fans are Chiefs fans, too.

Which makes it even more laughable. The Chiefs have made it over .500 many times in the past 30 years and even made the playoffs.

While the Royals... ROFL

Cassel is poised to have a good season this year and I will be thrilled when he does. I can't wait for him to prove idiots like those who booed him wrong.

I hope you catch herpes.

Big ****ing deal... Who cares about the Chiefs quest for Mediocrity... As far as the NFL is concerned, the Chiefs are a joke...

.500 and noise in the playoffs means nothing...

I hope you get caught for molesting childern...

y do u h8 the chiefs

I dont, I just hate you

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That means children were molested...... So, you hope children get molested? Thhhhhaaaaatttt's pretty messed up, brah. :shake:

Yeah now that I look at it, I did screw that up. I should of said "trying to"

Sorry bro. I sure dont want any children hurt by that shit bag...

Reerun: nothing you can say can make me hate you.

I love you, unconditionally, for your words against Herm, Pioli and Cassel.

You light up my life.

Although I hate it when children are molested, I was just teasin ya, man. I knew what ya meant. :)

I view Reerun as a brother. By which I mean a soulful black man. He's just so smooth and manly. He's one bad motherf--

So, therefore ReeRun == Ving Rhames?!

God you are a dumb ****. If this were the ban youself thread I would tell you to kill yourself. Your sports knowledge is at least as stupid on all fronts.

1. Not a royals game.
2. You gave credit to cassel getting us to the playoffs and not the weakass schedule / running game or defense.
3. You don't really watch sports do you?

That's awesome. LMAO

And personally, I wouldn't have booed Cassel (although I certainly wouldn't have cheered for him), but I would have booed that beaker shitbag Self just as hard as I did Bronco Neil.

Please die already

Boo Hoo....

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