We'll just call it the Mets vs the SoxYanks

[Edited on July 2, 2006 at 7:25 PM. Reason : oops]

7/2/2006 7:18:38 PM

Varitek is definitely worthy of being an All-Star!!!!!!!!!!!

7/2/2006 7:23:31 PM

SO IS LO DUCA

7/2/2006 7:24:38 PM

That's fan voting, not the managers picks. Blame fans.

Ok, that's not so bad. I thought they sad Buehrle was starting. That's not bad if Johan starts.

7/2/2006 7:25:11 PM

who blamed the managers?

7/2/2006 7:30:54 PM

Well considering Varitek wasn't voted in I assume ^^^^ was..

you were blaming fans though...

[Edited on July 2, 2006 at 7:34 PM. Reason : carat]

7/2/2006 7:32:25 PM

either way

they both suck dick

7/2/2006 7:34:33 PM

God, I want to stick knives in my ears listening to this drunken fool speak.

7/2/2006 7:42:08 PM

what a fucking joke

DET has only 2 allstars

7/2/2006 7:59:32 PM

aha

the bravos have three reserves

7/2/2006 8:01:19 PM

a tad off topic, but does anyone know the name of that song that played as the intro of the Mets/Yankees game tonight?

I'm pretty sure it was the outro to "The Inside Man" as the credits rolled, but I'm not positive

EDIT: google pwns:

"The opening credits song Chaiyya Chaiyya is originally from the Indian movie Dil Se. It is sung by Sukhvinder Singh and Sapna Awasthi, lyrics by Gulzar and music by AR Rahman."

so n/m

[Edited on July 2, 2006 at 8:09 PM. Reason : google]

7/2/2006 8:07:22 PM

i really think it is going to be a good game...

but Liriano, Mussina, and Damon should have made it

7/2/2006 8:15:02 PM

how about Bonderman or Verlander

easily better than 75% of the other starters

7/2/2006 8:21:05 PM

Mussina def. should be on there. You have to have a Tigers pitcher or two, i think Verlander should have made it over Rogers.

Liriano is probably going to be voted in as the extra guy, he leads the league in ERA for Starters (1.99 I believe) and is 9-1.

7/2/2006 9:21:18 PM

I could have sworn Damon was at least in the top four for AL outfielders. Oh well...I must have just not checked in for a while.

7/2/2006 9:55:26 PM

why the fuck is Mark Redman on the AL All star team?

he's 5 -4 with a 5.59 era...wtf?!?!?!?!

i know every team has to be represented but i'm sure the royals have someone better (or do they?)

7/2/2006 10:35:35 PM

what about David DeJesus or Mark Teahen they are playing good for the Royals.

7/2/2006 10:47:44 PM

Quote :

"they are playing good for the Royals"

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n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra (-môr, -mr) or ox·y·mo·rons
A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined

7/3/2006 5:24:58 AM

we all know the fans vote on these, so what's the point in complaining that there are people better out there. Half of these picks are based on popularity alone.

7/3/2006 8:12:37 AM

They should let the fans pick, at most, two or three players. Coaches and baseball writers should pick the majority of the roster, and they need to get rid of the rule that each team has to have one player represented. And while we're talking about things that are wrong with the All-Star game, I really don't like how it determines home field advantage for the World Series. That should definitely go to the team with the best record. I'd continue speaking the obvious, but I have to get back to work.

7/3/2006 9:04:57 AM

^agreed, agreed, agreed.

I like the managers and sports writers picking the entire team, and then fans picking the starters.

[Edited on July 3, 2006 at 9:49 AM. Reason : .]

7/3/2006 9:31:40 AM

^^ your team has zero chance of making the playoffs this year, so why do you care about home field advantage

7/3/2006 9:39:14 AM

Quote :

"why the fuck is Mark Redman on the AL All star team? he's 5 -4 with a 5.59 era...wtf?!?!?!?!"

He pitched well against the White Sox in his one start against them. Ozzie didn't want to cut into his drinking time by actually looking up stats so he picked him.

** Interestingly enough the players do vote (thought it doesn't mean anything) and they picked the same starting team as the fans in the NL

[Edited on July 3, 2006 at 10:11 AM. Reason : x]

7/3/2006 10:11:21 AM

The Royals basically have no one worthy of being an All Star. Teahan is a joke, but has been playing better of late. DeJesus is probably their best everyday player, maybe Reggie Sanders. All of their pitching is horrible. Maybe one of the guys from the pen might have had the stats (Burgos maybe - don't feel like looking up the stats?), but Redman didn't deserve a spot.

7/3/2006 10:14:06 AM

i think they should make an exception to the "every team must be represented rule" when you have got a team as bad as the Royals

i have seriously not seen a team this bad in my lifetime
even the detroit tigers of a couple years back had a lot more promise at the time than this team

7/3/2006 10:21:10 AM

^Funny how you all say that but the Royals have really turned the corner lately.

They went 8-3 the last 2 weeks of June and just beat my Cardinals 2/3.

7/3/2006 11:36:45 AM

^ I know as well as anyone on this board how well the Royals are playing. I live in Kansas and get to see/hear them all the time. I realize that they've been playing better ball, mainly against the NL Central, but they still don't have a legit All-Star.

The one player per team rule needs to go. Back when the Braves were absolutely horrible and they always got one shitty player on the team, it did not make me care any more or any less about the game. It's not like the few Royals fans out there are going to care that Mark Redman made the team. Plus I bet Redman feels like a shit knowing that a guy like Mussina/Liriano/Verlander will not make the team, but he did because Ozzie had to pick someone from the Royals.




[Edited on July 3, 2006 at 2:31 PM. Reason : f]

7/3/2006 2:30:44 PM

Quote :

"All-Star Team It was fascinating to be a small part of watching how the All-Star Team was selected. Many fans may be under the impression that the manager sits down and makes his pick. That is far from the case. Leading up to last weekend, we had prepared page after page of stats and player rankings, along with projected pitching rotations. Ozzie spoke with managers of other teams. As you know, fans selected the eight starters. Players vote on the the next eight players, one per position. Players also select eight pitchers, five starters and three relievers. This leaves seven players for Ozzie to select. Of the seven, four must be pitchers, and he had to cover the four teams -- Bal, Oak, KC and Cle -- who did not have a player among the fan and player choices. So, really, Ozzie had three picks of his own and used them on Konerko, Jenks and Buehrle. Because the players selected Jim Thome as the backup first baseman, Konerko was needed as the only true first baseman on the team. Jenks received a lot of support from the players vote as well and obviously is one of the top relievers in the game. Grady Sizemore was Ozzie's easy choice as the Indians rep (and he also gave the AL another center fielder), Miguel Tejada was the Orioles selection so that he had another middle infielder to play with in terms of game strategy. And Barry Zito and Mark Redman were the pitchers selected to represent their teams. Starting pitching was an concern. Three of the five starters chosen by the players are scheduled to pitch Sunday, which limits them to at most one inning in the ASG. So in Buehrle, Zito and Redman, Ozzie was adding pitchers who could give him innings should the game go to extras. Pitchers like Mike Mussina and Curt Schilling are having great years but are scheduled to throw Sunday. Adding them to the team would not solve the innings issue. Hope that explains some of the behind-the-scenes concerns with picking the team. It was sure an experience to sit in on the meetings, watch, listen and learn. In the end, it's Ozzie's team, and he believes its a team he can win this game with ... after all, we want home field advantage."

from http://whitesoxpride.mlblogs.com/

7/4/2006 12:44:30 PM

win it for my tigers ozzie

7/4/2006 12:50:05 PM

tigers have 2 all stars cause they have a "team"
like the pistons HAD, well rounded, but no hotshot superstars, thats all

7/4/2006 8:36:35 PM

maggs is on his way to the team if manny bows out, as he should

7/6/2006 2:33:45 PM

Francona said Manny is out..

oh and Kenny Rogers is going to be the starter from what I hear.. Guess Ozzie wanted the only guy in the league crazier then him to start..

7/6/2006 2:35:57 PM

newsflash: nym410 hates ozzie guillen

7/6/2006 2:38:27 PM

^^ Man that is pretty shitty if Rogers is the starter for the AL. It might be good for the NL if they can score some runs off him, but Rogers does not deserve the honor of being the AL starting pitcher after all the shit he's pulled. Might as well just put Brett Myers on the NL squad now and let him start too.

[Edited on July 6, 2006 at 2:39 PM. Reason : ^]

7/6/2006 2:39:41 PM

Kenny Rogers has had a good season so far and he hasn't assaulted any cameramen. Also he wouldn't mind taxing a division rivals aces arm, even if its for three innings.

7/6/2006 3:06:13 PM

Carl Crawford of the Devil Rays should be taking Manny's place. The dude stole home last night. That's insane. .325 AVG and 32 stolen bases ain't too shabby either.

7/6/2006 6:35:45 PM

guillen will probably add Podsednik so he had 9 along with AJ

this is the most fucked up all-star game ever

7/6/2006 7:36:17 PM

i am a huge sox fan and even i think buerhle doesnt deserve a spot

konerko is questionable

jenks is solid

7/6/2006 7:43:13 PM

verlander and liriano got fucked

7/6/2006 7:44:44 PM

SHOULD
HAVE
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IF
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7/6/2006 7:48:00 PM

FUCKER YOU CANT VOTE MORE THAN 25X PER IP ADDRESS

again this all-star game is the biggest joke ever

gotta love a 2nd place team whose manager had 8 of his own players on it

7/6/2006 7:50:53 PM

Quote :

"FUCKER YOU CANT VOTE MORE THAN 25X PER IP ADDRESS"

wrrrronnnnnngggggg

7/6/2006 8:24:16 PM

Quote :

"gotta love a 2nd place team whose manager had 8 of his own players on it"

world series what?

7/6/2006 8:25:13 PM

not like that 2nd place team would be 4-5 games ahead of 2nd place in any other division right now...

seriously, who knew the tigers were gonna do that?

7/6/2006 8:33:15 PM

^^ wow you guys won a world series

the tigers had won 4 since your last

7/6/2006 8:39:57 PM

Quote :

"the tigers had won 4 since your last"

the tigers won 4 WS since last year?

wow, that IS good

7/6/2006 8:48:10 PM

wow you white sox fans really fixed the voting, how does that assclown AJ Piersynski get in over Liriano.

7/6/2006 10:10:42 PM

^^ had = past tense. The Tigers had won four titles since the last White Sox one pre - 2005.

God, I hate ALL White Sox fans. Even though I helped them avoid national blackouts...

[Edited on July 6, 2006 at 10:29 PM. Reason : x]

7/6/2006 10:28:57 PM

^ thank you for handling that while i was gone

7/6/2006 10:40:05 PM

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/allstar06/news/story?id=2515212

Rogers starting for A.L. and Brad Penny for N.L.

And we wonder why the N.L. never wins this thing.

7/10/2006 3:18:59 PM