Would Francona pick Mussina to start the All-Star Game in NYC?

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 Would Francona pick Mussina to start the All-Star Game in NYC?
In his first four starts of the season, Mussina was 1-3 with a 5.75 ERA, 3.1 K/9 and 5 home runs allowed. In his last 10 starts, he’s 8-1 with a 3.11 ERA, 5.7 K/9 and 5 home runs allowed. Is there a hotter pitcher in the American League right now? No. Is there an American League pitcher more deserving to start the All-Star Game? Probably not. [link]

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Another Reason Sports Are Better In Europe (OK, Not Really) [Blogdome]
Published 6/10/2008 by Will Leitch at Deadspin
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Should Mike Mussina Start the All-Star Game?
Published 6/10/2008 by Josh Alper at FanHouse
... Wicked Good Sports has also noticed Mussina's torrid pitching of late and raises the question of the Midsummer Classic at Yankee Stadium. Could the Moose get the nod in front of the home crowd? ...

The Scorecard: Hey NYT, here's America's best 'ballpark' food
Published 6/10/2008 at Big League Stew
... [LOCG] • Cliff Floyd is the greatest baseball player of all time and Bill James doesn't know it. [Huffington] • Emmanuelle Chriqui threw out the first pitch at the Dodgers game on Sunday, which gives me enough reason to lament that she isn't more well-known or famous. Hey, it worked when I did the same thing for Katherine Heigl a few years back. [Cuzoogle] • Who wants to see Mike Mussina start the All-Star Game? [Wicked Good Sports] • Yankees fans boo the sun because, just like Yahoo! Sports and the ...

Rounding The Bases: All-Star Treatment
Published 6/11/2008 by David Chalk at Bugs & Cranks
... Should Tito Francona start Mike Mussina in the All-Star Game? Or should he give him the ol’ Cito Gaston treatment? [Comcast SportsNet] ...

Baseball Today: Thursday, June 11
Published 6/11/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... RIGHTING A WRONG: Remembering the time Cito Gaston left him warming up in the bullpen without bringing him into the game -- and thus depriving Mike Mussina, then with the Orioles, of pitching in front of his hometown fans in the 1993 All-Star Game at Camden Yards -- Cameron Martin of ComcastSportsNet wonders if Terry Francona would select Moose to start this year's All-Star Game, which is being played in Mussina's current baseball home (Yankee Stadium). ...

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