Milwaukee fans made Ryan Braun an All-Star starter for the NL, Ben Sheets is on the roster, and Corey Hart has a chance to fill the last spot on the team. Meanwhile, somehow the cubs have 7 players on the NL roster - including an outfielder who hasn't played since June 11, another outfielder who has put up solid but not spectacular numbers, and a pitcher who stole a spot from Cole Hamels.
-Alfonso Soriano should not be a starter. No way. Soriano has only appeared in 51 games this year. Corey Hart, Pat Burrell, Carlos Lee, and Aaron Rowand (who are all candidates for the final spot) are all more deserving than Soriano.
-I feel that Hart and Lee are also more deserving than Kosuke Fokudome, who is also a starter for the NL. Fokudome is hitting .285 with 7 HR and 35 RBI. Wow. Let's look at some NL outfielders who have more HRs and RBIs than Fokudome:
Corey Hart, Pat Burrell, Adam Dunn, Carlos Lee, Rick Ankiel, Jason Bay, Cody Ross, Chris Young, Matt Holliday, Xavier Nady, Brad Hawpe, Carlos Beltran, Ken Griffey Jr., Ryan Church, Hunter Pence, Andre Ethier, John Bowker, Aaron Rowand, Jeremy Hermida, Jeff Francoeur, Matt Kemp (that's 21 players). Jim Edmonds has appeared in 19 fewer games than Fokudome and has almost the same numbers.
-Not sure how Jason Varitek is an All-Star. Varitek is one of my favorite players, but check out his numbers - .219 avg, 7 HR, 27 RBI.
-I also would love to see Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez removed from the starting lineup. Jeter is hitting .282 with 4 HR and 36 RBI, while Michael Young in Texas has better numbers. Meanwhile, Rodriguez will probably attempt to brainwash the AL roster with the help of Madonna.
-J.J. Hardy is one more great week away from deserving to be an All-Star. His numbers are almost as good as Miguel Tejada's (plus, Hardy never lied about his age).
-Ryan Dempster, another hated cubbie, stole a spot on the NL team. Check out the numbers from Philadelphia's Cole Hamels and St. Louis' Kyle Lohse:
Hamels - 9-5, 3.22 ERA, 110 K, 33 BB, 128.2 IP
Lohse - 10-2, 3.61 ERA, 56 K, 28 BB, 112.1 IP
Dempster - 9-3, 3.24 ERA, 93 K, 43 BB, 111.0 IP
Now go vote for Corey Hart!
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Cubs are over represented
Red Sox are over represented
Cubs starters don't even deserve to be in the game period.
Hart and Parra should be on the team
Cubs fans voted out Griffey - booo
Braun was top vote getting OF and 2nd leading vote getter in NL after Utley - yeeeaaaa
Brewers are going to sweep next two series' leading into the allstar break!!!!
Hopefully CC pitches for Milwaukee on Tuesday!
Could the brewers work out a three way deal sending Laporta, Hall, Weeks and others away and bringing CC and Brian Roberts to Milwaukee? - that would be great!
Yeah, but at least Joey Chestnut beat Kobayashi in the hot dog eating contest. Maybe Sabathia can convince the Prince to give up this vegetarian thing once and for all.
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