sggatecl
Senior Member
I don't know how they do it, but Baltimore always has ridiculously good online voter turn out for these things. Watch them get at least one undeserving guy into the game.
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Get StartedThey both are. But Inge made the All Star team based on women stacking the write in vote by edging out future Tiger Ian Kinsler. No way Inge ever gets to be an All Star without ballot stuffing.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ns-final-vote-earns-first-all-star-appearance
All the bloggers pushed every reader to vote while the Tigers threw in a contest for voters offering an on-field experience. They even struck a deal with the Phillies to market Inge and Victorino together. There were tales of people voting 500-600 times each, which helped in effectively crashing MLB.com.
meh...who cares...the All Star game is a joke anyway!
That was my point Tom. Duh!
oh...it sounded like you were just commenting on the Inge situation...not the entire game and voting process.
Royals fans are stuffing the ballot box around the clock.
http://m.tigers.mlb.com/news/article/129366178/miggy-tigers-need-boost-in-all-star-voting
Miggy, Tigers need boost in All-Star voting.
Tigers official site
Royals now hold the vote lead in seven of nine starting positions.
The all star game is a joke alright other than it determing home field is the WS. but hey let all the royals not get a break in July this year fine with me..
It is truly moronic that you can vote 35 times!
I doubt they will ever shorten the season. I would push for more day night double headers, expanded rosters for those events, no all star break, both leagues DH, expand instant replay. As far as all fields being the same...I would never endorse that. I think the different fields make the game more interesting.
I could go for almost all of that too.
On the field size, if you are going to judge, compare, and award players by stats, they should have standardized field dimensions. The difference between parks is crazy right now. Places like Yankee Stadium, Camden Yards, Fenway, and Arlington have unreasonably short outfield sections. Other places like Comerica Park, Target Field, Minutemaid Park, PNC, etc. have ridiculously long outfield sections. Then there are things Oakland's foul territory, The Green Monster, and crazy wall section changes in a number of parks which definitely impact the game. Why not set a standard field size going forward and eventually most/all stadiums will adapt to it? To me, you can create whatever "feel" you want with everything that surrounds that playing surface. I can't think of another major sport that doesn't have a standard field size, unless you count golf or racing in the mix. Everything else that I can think of that's a team sport on a field has set dimensions.
This has a pretty interesting graphic which shows how much difference there is in baseball field dimensions... http://m.mlb.com/cutfour/2014/04/28...-big-league-ballpark-in-this-cool-infographic
I know it's getting off topic even more, but I would love to see technology replace umpires. Teams can keep their wonky fields and foul areas, just give me strikes, balls, fouls, and home runs that aren't at the whim of somebody's bad eyesight or personal biases.
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