Updated All-Star Voting - Only 3 Days Left To Vote!
Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog —
Here is the updated AL All-Star voting from MLB.com. If you want to check out the voting for the NL go here. 2009 MLB All-Star Balloting : American League 1st Base Rank Player Name Team Total Votes 1. Kevin Youkilis Red ...
Hunter still lags
Angels blog —
It looks unlikely that Torii Hunter will start in the All-Star game. With two days remaining before balloting closes, Hunter trails Josh Hamilton for the final starting spot by about 145,000 votes. Hamilton has been hurt for the past three weeks. Posted in: All-Star Game Angels Torii Hunter | You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
Rangers Gameday: 6/30 Vs. LAA
Baseball Time in Arlington —
Tuesday, June 30th Game Preview Los Angeles Angels (42-32) vs. Texas Rangers (40-35) Joe Saunders (8-4, 3.66 ERA) vs. Scott Feldman (5-2, 4.06 ERA) 7:05 p.m. CST in Arlington, Texas (Rangers Ballpark in Arlington) TV: FSNSW-HD | Radio: KRLD 105.3 FM, XM 179 ...
Reminder: All-Star Game voting ends tomorrow
Red Sox Monster —
Kevin Youkilis has again pulled ahead of Mark "I always wanted to be a Yankee" Teixeira in All-Star Game voting, MLB.com reports . Dustin Pedroia still trains Ian Kinsler at second base, but there's a small gap between them. Meanwhile, Aaron Hill up in Toronto is baffled about what he needs to do to get any love at all.
All-Star Voting: Jeter Maintains Lead, Teixeira Falls Behind
YanksBlog.com —
MLB.com's Doug Miller has the latest update in the 2009 American League All-Star balloting. With 3,046,813, Derek Jeter is the only player with 3 million or more votes, holding a commanding lead at the shortstop position. Mark Teixeira has fallen behind Kevin Youkilis by 40,047 votes. You can ...
Prospectus Hit and Run: Look Over, But Don`t Overlook by Jay Jaffe
Baseball Prospectus —
July 2, 2009 Prospectus Hit and Run Look Over, But Don't Overlook by Jay Jaffe By midnight tonight, the All-Star balloting will have ended, and on Sunday the starting lineups will be announced. Inevitably, deserving players will be left out in the cold (even after managers Joe Maddon and Charlie Manuel ...
Around the Yankee Universe: Vote for Tex edition
Pinstripe Alley —
... Want to see Mark Teixeira start at first base for the American League All-Star team instead of Boston's Kevin Youkilis? Today is the last day you can try to make that happen.
Voting closes at 11:59 p.m. EST, and Tex trails by 40,000 votes in the latest results. Get yourself over to MLB.com, where you can vote online up to 25 times, and see if you can make it happen.
By the way, check out the Hartford Courant this morning. Yours truly is quoted there in a piece the Courant did asking various ...
All-Star Game Voting Ends Today
Fack Youk —
One of the spoils of living in a Democratic Republic such as ours is suffrage: the right to vote. Today my fellow Yankee fans, I urge you to exercise that right, up to twentyfive times, as All-Star Game voting ends at midnight Eastern Daylight Time. Derek Jeter is comfortably ahead at shortstop. But as of Tuesday's update from MLB, our namesake and archnemesis led Mark Teixeira by just over 40,000 votes. Come on Fackers; we can't allow that to happen. So head on over to mlb.com and rock the vote. Vote Teix. Vote early. Vote often. And if you're so inclined, throw a little support towards Ian Kinsler to try to keep the Sawx off the right ...
All-Star Teams to Add 33rd Player, Lose Even More Significance
Bugs & Cranks —
Remember when it meant something for a player to be an all-star?
There was a time when participating in the mid-summer classic was something earned through one’s performance, his legacy, the impact he’d had to that point in the season. However, the all-star game has slowly and tragically morphed into a meaningless vessel to exalt players whose names the most casual of fans recognize, and an ever-inclusive showcase of a once exclusive honor.
Keeping in the tradition of ruining tradition and further minimizing a once honorable achievement, the offices of the MLB decided Wednesday to expand rosters to 33 players per squad, ...
