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Have you seen the commercial for this year's All-Star Game yet? If not, here's a brief summary. A hand comes out of the sky and pulls the Gateway Arch out of the ground. It turns out that the Gateway Arch is a magnet that can attract baseball players and fans to it. (A special magnet.) The hand moves it all around America, picks up a bunch of people, then dumps them all on the Busch Stadium turf while Albert Pujols stands there and scowls. It's amazing.

It takes a minute to watch, but an eternity to comprehend. Fortunately, The Dugout's Speculation Station is here to help. Your Dugout is after the jump, and so is the video.

The first meeting of The Dugout's Speculation Station was met with considerable success. Its panelists -- Brian Bannister, Carlos Delgado, and Chipper Jones -- contributed their thoughts in a (largely) rational and orderly manner, and as a result, a greater understanding was grasped of the item at hand.

Today, The Speculation Station turns its curious and objective gaze toward a 1988 commercial for the Nintendo Entertainment System's R.B.I. Baseball. Let's wish our thoughtful participants well as they attempt to digest and understand this material!

Today's Dugout is after the jump.

Anyone who has watched a local Cincinnati Reds broadcast is familiar with the JTM commercial that plays at least every other commercial break. It features Bronson Arroyo singing a song about frozen food products, and it is tremendous. With commercials like these, a simple pithy remark just will not cut it. Oh, no.

That's why I have decided to assemble the Speculation Station, a tribunal that gives special attention to things like this. Video of the commercial, as well as tonight's Dugout, are after the jump.