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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
And since it’s in N.Y....THIS TIME IT’S COUNT BENIGNO!
Who are you voting for?
It may be the hottest question of 2008.
Voting is under way at MLB.com, and gradually at all the ballparks, to once again fulfill your annual civic duty of electing the most deserving Major League Baseball players to starting positions and final roster spots for the All-Star Game—the most traditional and important of any such elite gathering in sports. It is the jewel event created just so fans could see Babe Ruth and his best contemporaries all on the same field at once, and now it is an institution where a great part of the excitement is the very process that gets today’s greats all together.
...Fans can vote for starters up to 25 times with the Monster 2008 All-Star Game Online Ballot at MLB.com and all 30 club Web sites until 11:59 p.m. ET on Wednesday, July 2. There will be constant campaigning between now and then, and voters will be faced with tough decisions every day and night. The task is to put the best people on the field the night of July 15 at Yankee Stadium, which is in its farewell season. Major League Baseball formally opened the balloting with an on-field ceremony there before Tuesday’s Tigers-Yanks game, and now it will be up to you to study the issues and get to know the candidates.
This is serious stuff, obviously a lot more challenging than picking one leader to run things. Here, you are asked to pick from candidates on both tickets, AL and NL, and it will be up to you to decide on nine AL starting position players (including a designated hitter), eight NL starting position players, and the 32nd man on both rosters with the ever-popular, seventh-annual Monster All-Star Final Vote.
Repoz
Posted: April 29, 2008 at 04:00 PM | 22 comment(s)
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Maybe this year I will cast a few all-Braves ballots just for kicks. It's not like that technique is any more sophisticated than most voters', so who cares?
Although I'm sure that'd only work with the ballots you get at the game and not online, where it'd probably be updated.
Looks like Jayson Nix is that guy for 2008.
Dan Ortmeier at 1B is kinda funny too. The whole Giants lineup is kinda funny. Just not "ha-ha" funny.
Jerry Owens is listed as the White Sox's center fielder. He didn't even make the Opening Day roster.
To be fair, that's because he was injured. Although, because he's on there, Quentin isn't.
In the same vein, but opposite end of the spectrum - Matt Kemp didn't make the ballot.
I love the Dodgers.
I love the Dodgers.
Hey, 5 years/$44m has gotta buy you something. If not a little respect, at least your name on the ASG ballot.
I think it's definitely "ha-ha" funny. Just not as "ha-ha" funny as Zito.
has nothing to do with MLB, has everything to do with the Red Sox organization. They give MLB the list of names. Can't help it if nobody in the Red Sox front office was smart enough to realize that Ellsbury would be starting this year.
I see that Willy Aybar is on the ballot.
Also Scott Hatteberg. Looks like the Reds themselves underestimated Dusty Baker's willingness to play youngsters. And Dave Ross is on the ballot, instead of the guy who actually deserves all those votes, Gabor P. Bako.
Oakland fans will have a tough choice between Frank Thomas and Jack Cust at DH. Not to mention having to resist voting for all three members of that star-studded outfield of Chris Denorfia, Emil Brown and Ryan Sweeney.
Of course he would. And he'd leave him out there for 140 pitches.
In all fairness, Ross was put on the DL March 30 and Valentin was supposed to be the backup, but he got hurt, too.
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