ESPN's All-Star starters

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Daily Rundown: July 4, 2008
Published 7/4/2008 by Laura J. Wurst at The Sports Girl
... Baseball Impressive Start.  Jon Lester became the first Boston pitcher to throw a complete-game shutout (7-0) against the Yankees since Pedro Martinez in 2000.  This was also Lester's first appearance at Yankee Stadium. All-Star Game 2008.  On Sunday, watch out for Major League Baseball's announcement of the All-Star rosters.  Until then, you can check out ESPN's picks. Tennis Great Match.  Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will ...

Stuff for Saturday
Published 7/5/2008 by GM-Carson (noreply@blogger.com) at We Should Be GM's
... Pat Burrell has never been an All-Star, but he definitely deserves it this season. 16 out of 32 ESPN baseball analysts think so too. In what may be The Bat's last year in Philly, I truly hope he gets the Mid Summer Classic nod. ...

Correcting the All-Star Outfields
Published 7/5/2008 by Sky at skyking162
... Not to pick on ESPN, because everyone out there choosing All-Stars has a similar list, but here are the outfield lineups their experts came up with for the Mid-Summer classic: ...

Daily Notes 7/5
Published 7/5/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (karazekevin) at SeaTown Sports
Local Mariners +Why the hell are the Mariners winning? I love it. [AP] +Seattle Mariners: Some high points in a low season [Seattle Times] +The guns, and how we'll contend next year [Lookout Landing] +If shiggy did it, Morrow can do it better. Put Brandon Morrow into the All-Star game! [MLB] +All-Time Mariner Roster: 2nd Base. [USS Mariner] Sonics +Step Number One: An NBA quality arena [Sonics Central] +Will our politicians care at all? [FanHouse] +The Sonics in the '97 playoffs [Yahoo! Sports] National +The one-and-done rule is ...

For Your Consideration: Cards’ All-Stars
Published 7/6/2008 by Derrick Goold at Bird Land » Bird Land
... In a poll of its baseball writers and commentators, ESPN said two Cardinals are worthy of being on the All-Star team — Pujols at DH and Ryan Ludwick in the outfield. The voters picked the starting lineup and the starting pitcher, leaving the bench and pitching staff open for interpretation. Several performances out at the ballpark Saturday strengthen some Cardinals’ candidacy. ...

When ESPN does a better job than the fans…
Published 7/6/2008 by Maddog (maddog@anothercubsblog.net) at Another Cubs Blog
it’s time to call it quits to fans voting.  ESPN writers picked their all-star teams and published it this morning on espn.com.  It doesn’t have a single Cub starting, which is good news for a couple of reasons:  Brian McCann is better than Soto and Fukudome has no business sniffing the all-star game.  Soriano won’t be ...