What was really nice about last night's game was not that Derrek Lee and Aramis Ramirez showed up with some offense (that was A Ram's first homer in four weeks). It was not that the team didn't wait for Alfonso Soriano to continue his hot streak and carry them. It was not the continued good pitching from Ted Lilly and Carlos Marmol. It wasn't even that Joe West was shown by both ESPN and Comcast to be a two-ton idiot.

No, what was really nice was the focus that ESPN placed on Geovany Soto. This page was i=one of the first to state that Soto deserved to be the starter for the National League in the All Star Game. Last night's homer that West turned into an inside-the-parker (with an assist from the insane ground rules of Ken Lay Memorial Field) gave ESPN just the type of story line they love to focus on a player.

Now, some of the ESPN love was drowned out by a guy throwing a no-hitter on a team that ESPN never pays attention to. But clearly ESPN found a story line they like. They way they focused on him coming off the field and later on in the highlights cemented this view.

Expect to see more of Soto's continued excellent play highlight by The World Wide Marketing Leader as the season continues.