so, i just voted 20 times all royals except for knipkis and sweet billy b.
The article, "All-Star Votes Grow in Number, if Not in Value" caught my attention because of the amount of Royal's players that are heading towards playing in the all star game.
I've been a Royal fan for a long time and am so overjoyed to see how many people love the Royals. I find it interesting how each player captures the hearts of each fan. One reason may be because of how certain players treat the fans. For example, last year Eric Hosmer treated a whole bunch of Royals fans at a bar. The total tab was around 12,000 dollars! No wonder people love these wonderful, humble, and talented players! When they unfortunately lost the world series last year, I think that many hearts were broken. Now, everyone wants to see a comeback. It's been a long time, and this team more than deserves it.
However, it is questionable to whether or not the selection of players into the all-star game will change if everyone is basically a Royal. Is it possible that the fans will not be included in next year's all star game selection? I believe that this would drastically hurt the game of baseball as it is already a dying sport. If fans vote for the people that they want to be in the all-star game, more people are happy and engaged, even if players like Infante don't have the super stats. As long as fans are happy, that's all that matters!
I've been a Royal fan for a long time and am so overjoyed to see how many people love the Royals. I find it interesting how each player captures the hearts of each fan. One reason may be because of how certain players treat the fans. For example, last year Eric Hosmer treated a whole bunch of Royals fans at a bar. The total tab was around 12,000 dollars! No wonder people love these wonderful, humble, and talented players! When they unfortunately lost the world series last year, I think that many hearts were broken. Now, everyone wants to see a comeback. It's been a long time, and this team more than deserves it.
However, it is questionable to whether or not the selection of players into the all-star game will change if everyone is basically a Royal. Is it possible that the fans will not be included in next year's all star game selection? I believe that this would drastically hurt the game of baseball as it is already a dying sport. If fans vote for the people that they want to be in the all-star game, more people are happy and engaged, even if players like Infante don't have the super stats. As long as fans are happy, that's all that matters!
What a giant bunch of whinny little cry-baby, sissy-booboo's. Every MLB city had the opportunity to vote their tales off like we've done here in KC but let's face it, you were too lazy to do so, now it's too late and wah-lah --- seven or eight Royals will start. But never fear, the ENTIRE ROYALS COACHING STAFF will be there to help YOUR less than capable players learn to be as aggressive, athletic and on-point as the 2014 American League Champion Kansas City Royals. Let's hope Ned Yost is bold enough to start Wade Davis, the best stopper in ALL of baseball! Get ready for a blinding display of Royal Blue!!!!
It smacks of a relevance-depraved baseball town descending to the sensibilities of the minor leagues. KC fans, which at one time were among the best in baseball, have been deprived of a winning team for so long they seem to have misplaced, understandably, their objectivity and sense of fairness. It's as if they recognize that the current string of success is fleeting and they want to compress all of the benefits of being on top -- all star appearances, being one -- into a inevitably small window. How else do you explain the way they furiously booed Robinson Cano a few years ago after he didn't select one of their own for the home run derby. They actually cheered when he failed to hit a home run that would have generated cash donations to fight cancer! Who cheers for cancer? Talk about a loss of perspective.
Most of the fans of my generation took all-star voting seriously, recognizing a responsibility to send the most deserving players to the exhibition. We voted for those who deserved the recognition, not for a team logo. If fans have lost that connection to the game and that sense of responsibility and fairness, the vote should be taken away from them.
Most of the fans of my generation took all-star voting seriously, recognizing a responsibility to send the most deserving players to the exhibition. We voted for those who deserved the recognition, not for a team logo. If fans have lost that connection to the game and that sense of responsibility and fairness, the vote should be taken away from them.
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This is just another reason why awarding the home field advantage to the winner of this exhibition game is ludicrous. Yes, MLB players play for real at the All Star Game, compared with those farcical all star games in the NBA, NHL, and NFL. Can we find a better incentive, perhaps money, to keep the players passion to win? Unfortunately, money is the reason behind the leagues reasoning concerning most matters. Remember before they brought in the cash cow of inter league play and the unbalanced schedule? The fans got to see great players play against each other for the first time, not only in the all star game, but in the World Series as well. Plus, teams would play equal schedules; each team would play all of the teams in their league the same number of times, thus insuring the very best teams played each other in the WS. These changes to the structure and format has all been a slippery
slope all the way to the bank. Perhaps the fans who are younger and have no point of reference with the past, a band aid solution will suffice. But for the rest of us, at least we know how great it was.
slope all the way to the bank. Perhaps the fans who are younger and have no point of reference with the past, a band aid solution will suffice. But for the rest of us, at least we know how great it was.
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While I like Melanio's idea below of dual fan/expert combined dual teams, I would prefer the the players, managers and coaches do the honoring.
But until the rules change and while the MLB allows a fan to vote fourteen times (!), quite whining about Royals fans who did it the Chicago way. They voted early and often..
But until the rules change and while the MLB allows a fan to vote fourteen times (!), quite whining about Royals fans who did it the Chicago way. They voted early and often..
The good old days.....when people who actually knew something about the game (i.e., players and managers) voted for the all-stars and we could all rest pretty well assured that we were seeing the best of the best. Let's go back to the practice or just forget the whole damn thing.
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If I were Omar Infante I would be embarrassed -the Royals fans should be embarrassed about their crass demonstration of blatant dishonesty and lack of respect for the process, and the game itself.
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Not embarrassed at all - you should be mortified at how badly YOUR fans voted and how badly the Yankees are this year!
See you at the almost all-blue All Star Game!
Tee-Hee!
See you at the almost all-blue All Star Game!
Tee-Hee!
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We are still intoxicated from last season. What saps we are, but such happy saps.
Wouldn't it make more sense for a fan voted team and writers/players/managers voted team. Obviously making a dual voting system is a bit over MLB but still it would combine the popular vote with the so called expert's vote. Recognize both teams and then have the Managers decide the lineup. Heck there are 9 innings in the game, have them all go to bat!
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Keep calling it the Mid-Summer Classic. It's no longer an All-Star Game. At least that would be transparent. My preference would always be managers and coaches picking the players in their leagues. Remember, some baseball writers are so brilliant some of them didn't vote Willie Mays or Hank Aaron into the Hall of Fame.
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As a Red Sox fan, I didn't vote this year. No "stars" on the Sox, although Mookie Betts will eventually make it as an All-Star centerfielder. Liked the picture of Sportsmans Park in St. Louis. I'm sitting somewhere in the grandstands along the third base line.
The source of tis problem is clear--too many votes are allowed per voter. The limit should be reduced to maybe three to five per voter. Votes could be distributed among several players at the position, or concentrated. The current system begs for the entire process to be taken away again from the fans.
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It's not just KC fans voting for the Royals. It's fans nationwide who are opposed to the All-Star game voting process, and who therefore are entering protest votes for the Royals players--to skew results and show that the fan voting process is broken.
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Again, the results will echo those of a middle school student council election popularity contest. As someone who grew u in New York loving baseball and in particular the All Star Game, I have seen it melt down to a contest less interesting than any game in the 162 game schedule of any of the teams. Take the fans out of the voting and give it back to those with the knowledge to assess those players who deserve to get in based on what they have done on the field in the current year.
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420 million votes cast in a country of approximately 300 million people? And MLB is ok with this???
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You can apparently vote up to 35 times per email. I imagine Royals fans did this for the entire team.
Suddenly the process is unfair because the A.L. isn't stacked with Yankees, Angels, or other "big market" teams? Cue the sound of all the world's small violins,
Therefore Omar Infante is an All-Star.
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He is if he wins at his position. Live with it cry baby's!!!
It never was a good idea to give the All-Star vote to the fans who promptly turned it into a popularity contest, frequently voting for recognizable names and ignoring current statistics. The baseball writers who are entrusted with naming the MVPs and Cy Young winners would probably do a much better job of electing the All-Star headliners. At the very least, MLB should establish a sort of baseline eligibility figure of, say, 225 at bats with a batting average of at least .240 or at least 15 home runs or at least 35 runs batted in (i.e., nothing so extreme as to bear any relationship to actual excellence).
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