Happy Fun All-star Game Voting Fighting!

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 Happy Fun All-star Game Voting Fighting!
I think most knowledgeable MLB fans have at least minor complaints with fan voting at the All-star game. There’s always at least one completely undeserving player — like Ken Griffey Jr. this year — that gets voted in undeservedly. Fortunately, for the most part, baseball blogs don’t bother with this topic…it’s an argument better suited to sportstalk ... [link]

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You thought all those Cubs and Red Sox All-Stars were bad?
Published 7/23/2008 by 'Duk at Big League Stew
Then check out the lineup for the east squad in this year's Korean All-Star Game, where nine — yes, nine — members of the Lotte Giants have been voted into the game. This story from The Korea Times doesn't mention anything about ballot-box stuffing, though it does seem a bit strange that a fourth-place team that's sitting right at .500 would get nine starters into the game. From the East Windup Chronicle: "The only member of Lotte not to be voted into the starting lineup was ...

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