2009 All-Star lol balloting has begun

who wants to join the Vote for the Worst AL Players prank?

lol-star

who are the Worst AL Players this year

Liriano :(
Beltre

.220/.254/.271
.176/.215/.243

Which one is Beltre? which one is Brett Gardner?

This one is Alexei Ramirez:

.194/.254/.274

NL frontrunner is Jimmy Rollins: .192/.231/.288

marblecake also the game

i just voted for marco scutaro 25 times

^that's funny because last night i witnessed people doing just that!

Brewers fans doing early stuffing, lol JJ Hardy:

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090526&content_id=4960488&vkey=allstar2009&fext=.jsp

Adrian Gonzalez should be in the top five at first base, come on.

Yadi over McCann by +200K

'd be nice but mccann's stats will be too much in a month.

after Beltran & Braun in OF, I went Manny for now (Ibanez skeptic)

AL:

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090527&content_id=4985248&vkey=allstar2009&fext=.jsp

Fluster Olney

http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=4211466&name=olney_buster

there is no defensible NL catcher choice but McCann.

nope

Yadi is more deserving then Soriano

also brad hawpe is gettin no love

my votes

AL
1B Morneau
2B Hill
SS Bartlett
3B Longoria
C Mauer
OF Bay
OF Adam Jones
OF Hunter

NL
1B Pujols
2B Hudson
SS Ramirez
3B Zimmerman
C McCann
OF Braun
OF Beltran
OF Upton

Ibanez is going to send you his stool now!

braun and beltran are no brainers but the all star game needs some swag imo

also ibanez is taking hgh

Utley and Pedroia (or at least Kinsler) at 2B. Hill will fade some.

I started casting votes for Ibanez, but now that he's on the DL, I go for Dunn behind Beltran and Braun. Stays on the field and always hits 40 HR.

Easy to stay on the field if you don't move!

lol poly

there is no defensible NL catcher choice but McCann.

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, June 14, 2009 11:03 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

:D!!!! <3 luv u morbs

here's what my not-trolling AS teams would look like

NL

C Brian McCann
1B Albert Pujols
2B Chase Utley
3B Ryan Zimmerman or David Wright
SS Hanley Ramirez
LF Raul Ibanez or Ryan Braun
CF Carlos Beltran
RF Justin Upton or Hunter Pence

AL

C Joe Mauer
1B Kevin Youkilis
2B Ian Kinsler
3B Evan Longoria
SS Marco Scutaro
LF Carl Crawford
CF Torii Hunter
RF Ichiro Suzuki

I don't even know what position Ben Zobrist plays but he should be in there somewhere.

as a reserve.

Bartlett only real option for dissing Jeter.

C McCann
1B Pugols
2B Utley
3B Wright
SS Ramirez
LF Braun
CF Beltran
RF Kemp

C Mauer
1B Teixeira
2B Kinsler
3B Rodriguez Or Longoria
SS Bartlett
LF Bay
CF Hunter
RF Ichiro

Scutaro's been the superior player for the last two seasons, and has played about 40 more games than Bartlett in that span of time.

can you honestly make the case that Marco Scutaro is the best SS in the AL? w/ a str8 face?

Who would your pick(s) be? Jeter and Bartlett are his only competition; I can understand thinking he doesn't measure up to Jeter, but I'm not sure I understand your incredulity at privileging Scutaro over Bartlett, who nobody really considers a star player either.

i did my 25 votes. McCann and Torii need yours.

also pitchers should be Greinke vs Haren

Haren's 100+ Ks surprises H Reynolds since he is not a "strikeout guy."

Speaking of H Reynolds, what did Pecota have down for Pujols' RBI total this year? Reynolds scoffed at the projection in April -- something like "NO WAY, not with THAT lineup, LOOOOOL."

"HR" actually gets dumber by the year, at least in front of the mic. I think he was also claiming last night that Griffey is going to hit 25-30 homers.

lol you picked michael young and ben zobrist over ian kinsler

also i think maddon selected 5986 relievers but i might be misremembering

Ian Kinsler is hitting .199, .273, .390 on the road.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/allstar09/news/story?id=4307180

Jason Marquis is an all-star

Andrew Bailey in the only A's player who made it.

i had never heard of him

Howard over Dunn LOL WTF

First-year crybaby third baseman Young over (ex-crybaby) veteran third baseman Inge LOL WTF

well obv howard was gonna get picked by manuel

Howard is also from StL so theres that plot line too.

i'm kind of surprised (Aaron) Hill made it! (but glad)

having a stealth bomber fly over seems sort of anti-spectacle to me, didnt they have any normal jets

AHHHHHH why did i think watching this was a good idea

the baseball asg is amazing imo

this stuff is cool i think, baseball can get away with it

yeah but there's no way i'm gonna see the end of the game at this rate.

i realize this is to maximize ratings on both coasts and there's nothing i can do but really in between two commercial breaks all we get is sheryl crow??

i basically never watch the asg but i have been pretty absorbed so far - probably gonna have it on in the background from hereon out

i honestly didn't even know stan musial was still alive, wow

that's a pretty sweet ride

88!

props to obama for representing with the white sox jacket even tho i hate those guys

yeah thank god hes not a small bears fan

haha yeah that kinda owned

that ichiro clip is pretty LOL cuz he gets it wrong, it should be "hotter than two rats fucking in a wool sock" fwiw.

the secret service needs to throw a hood over mccarver's head, drag him to the middle of the field and shoot him in the face execution style in front of thousands of horrified fans (and millions of grateful viewers)

Pujlols

more like NLoL

likin all the 1st pitch swingin game is movin @ a good pace

obama was dope

yea dude is smooooth

guys i'm facebook chatting with morbs who advises you to "cast your ballots early for 2012"

i would say he sends his love, but i can't be sure!

his signoff: "see you in 19 days. PERHAPS"

<3

by my count we've got 3 of 7 mlb Heebs in the game. kinsler r.i.p.

wtf that commercial was like an hour

It was kind of mesmerizing with the sound off.

carl fucking crawford

i'm psyched cause the tie makes it more likely wakefield will pitch.

granderson! love this guy.

i love the all star game but that one was a snooze - RIP roids

poor hunter pence didn't get in the game

he looked so sad on the bench

awww, i like pence, he seems like a dude.

i just wanted the damn thing to go to extras so i could see vmart try to catch wake.

You can tell it's an all-star game if a Padres pitcher is blowing it.

yeah good job national league you let a guy who was cut from the mets and who pitches in one of the best pitching parks in baseball and had never made an all star team in his entire life lose the game!

He was cut by the Mets? We traded for him.

either way the mets decided that he was not good enough for their bullpen

He is good enough for pretty much any bullpen now, but a first-time all-star playing for a terrible team is probably not the guy you want up there when you're fighting for home field advantage in the World Series, an event Heath Bell will not be pitching in anytime soon.

NL West pitchers gave up all the runs =(

barely cared but of course wanted more sonning by the AL

two things:

1) this is some susan lucci shit
2) some advertiser has to start making fun in 2010, like the whole country gets free nacho gordita chimichangas if the NL wins

Paraphrasing McCarver/Buck explanation as to why AL > NL

McCarver: "Because of the DH. In the AL, you have the DH, and even when the NL is the home team, those AL lineups with the DH will have an impact on the offense."

Buck: "To be honest, the AL is better."

McCarver: "Yeah."

Buck: "IT'S CUZ I SAY SO."

McCarver: "Yeah."

I like that the AL had the DH for 30+ years but the NL only decided it couldnt handle this new innovation until the 90s.

i don't get what you mean... NL always had a DH in the playoffs at AL parks... or do you mean in season interleague play?

where "the playoffs" = "the world series"

also the NL still has the edge in the alltime series results: 40-38-2 so this just may be a regression to the mean! ;)

NL baseball is superior, but AL baseball players are superior. So: worst of both worlds.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thehotstoneleague/2009470233_ichiro_visits_grave_of_george.html

This is a cool story. Turns out that Ichiro spent part of Monday visiting the St. Louis grave of Hall of Famer George Sisler, whose single-season hits record he broke in 2004. Ichiro very much wanted to pay his respects to Sisler, and brought flowers to leave at the gravesite.

Remember that Ichiro briefly greeted the members of the Sisler family that were in Safeco Field the night he got his 257th and 258th hit to tie and break Sisler's 1920 record for the St. Louis Browns. Sisler died on March 26, 1973 in Richmond Heights, Missouri.

"There's not many chances to come to St. Louis,'' Ichiro told me today in the American League clubhouse, speaking through interpreter Ken Barron. "In 2004, it was the first time I crossed paths with him, and his family generously came all the way to Seattle. Above all, it was a chance... I wanted to do that for a grand upperclassman of the baseball world. I think it's only natural for someone to want to do that, to express my feelings in that way. I'm not sure if he's happy about it."

Ichiro said his wife, Yumiko. , went with him, as well as some friends.

Here's what Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu had to say: I got to see the pictures with Ichiro at Sisler's grave, and it gave me some chills. I think it's important that people understand that there's a different side to him, and to be able to go back and respect a man whose record he broke was awfully special."

Here is an excellent story from 2004 about Sisler's burial site.

I think it says a lot about Ichiro that five years later he made the effort to visit Sisler's grave.

obama was dope

― barrymore, murdrewland (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:37 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yea dude is smooooth

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:39 PM (2 weeks ago)

Best moment w/ Slick Hustler's first pitch clip was Stewart on Daily Show: "And he started at shortstop! He can DO ANYTHING!!! (adds sotto voce) ... except create jobs."

(Audience full of sophomores, J0rdans and johnny crunches grumble mutinously and search their pockets for stones to throw)

The crowd was not pleased with that joke, but I thought it was great.