sports.yahoo.com - 7/1/2008
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Major League Baseball just released its final update of the National League voting totals and it appears that all but one position is locked up. The uncertainty comes at the third OF spot, where Chicago's Kosuke Fukudome has seen his lead cut to just 32,925 votes by Milwaukee's Ryan Braun , who was in 10th place as recently as June 3. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that as of the ...
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... Jim Bowden is a little concerned about how the Nats are evaluating pitchers. Makes me glad that we only have Fire Ned Yost and that firedougmelvin.com is not extant (until today, when it will no doubt become a FJM redirect).
Pay attention if you like to express your opinion: not only can you vote for Ryan Braun to eclipse Kosuke Fukudome (whom he trails by only 33,000 votes) for the third starting outfield spot in the All-Star game, but you can also vote for whether or not he'll do it.
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