All-Star Game 2022

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Pete and Lindor need your help! You are allowed to vote five times a day, and it's not very time-consuming. The first phase run until Thursday, then the top two have a runoff. Pete's in second, and Lindor is in third behind Trey Turner and Dansby Swanson.



MLB just released the cap designs, and they'd be decent if it weren't for the mesh backing, like this year's spring training and batting practice caps. Awful.

[Fman99]

Voting to see who makes it to the voting round is mad stupid. I hat MLB people who make decisions.

[MFS62]

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MLB just released the cap designs, and they'd be decent if it weren't for the mesh backing, like this year's spring training and batting practice caps. Awful.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I always believed that the best part of the MLB All-Star Game was the spectacle and pageantry of the players wearing their own team's uniforms, and seeing all of the different MLB uniforms together in one game.

[whippoorwill]

Wow remember when you could get a real paper ballot at the drug store and mail it in? Sponsored by Gillette. You punched out your choices and wrote in your Mets that weren't on it.



Those were the days

[kcmets]

I only recall voting for the all-star game on ballots available at the ballpark.

Grab a dozen and punch out the dots during the game and stick them somewhere.

Maybe ushers also came around and got 'em? I have no memory of mail-in ballots

available at stores.



I have no interest in the all-star voting anymore, Haven't for decades. Have also

been saying for decades the players and coaching staffs should do the voting.



But who would sponsor that for big bucks?

[Edgy MD]

It is all about sponsorship, and that's why repetitive voting has been encouraged for decades. Except, now we get to look at ads on the screen instead of on the paper ballot. I agree that I want none of it.



I remember a game when a pile of ballots were displayed and we were encouraged to take one, so my friend Martin and I each took 50. Instead of stuffing the box for the Mets or something, we punk voted. Martin would fill out a ballot of ALL PLAYERS WITH DUTCH-SOUNDING NAMES and a second ALL PLAYERS WITH JEWISH-SOUNDING NAMES. I get even more off the ranch and wrote in Glenn Braggs for each position in the American League, and maybe Mark Lemke for every position in the National League.



This obviously got old fast, but it was probably the last time I "voted."

[Fman99]

I used to vote online once per year, but I'm not voting to see who escapes the voting round and makes it to the voting round. This is my least favorite kind of jerking off, on the jerking off scale.

[roger_that]

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I have no interest in the all-star voting anymore, Haven't for decades. Have also

been saying for decades the players and coaching staffs should do the voting.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

All those things might be true, but I love the All-Star Game. Always have. I have some neat All-Star Game memorabilia - street pole banners, pennants, programs -- going way back. Ballots, too. One of my favorite nights of the year -- except for when Terry decided to not get a single one of his own players in the game. That was a frustrating year.

[Edgy MD]

Here's a fun thing. Pick two random celebrityish people and let them pick the teams. Folks big enough that they could lend some fun to the game, but not so big that the headache and the blowback would actually not be worth it. Patton Oswalt's National Leaguers vs. Parker Posey's American Leaguers.



Or, you can just let the managers or the league pick the guys.



But really, the issue isn't the way it's done, so much as why it's done the way it is — which is, as we've recorded above, for sponsorship and $$. It's not unheard of for an organization to give up a revenue stream, but it's damned rare, and if there's going to be any change, we've got to realize that's what we're up against, and focus on the real issue.

[Willets Point]

Have two captains select the teams on the field like they're on the school playground. Yes, literally every MLB player has to show up in uniform on the day of the All-Star Game for the selection. Fans at the stadium can influence the captains in their choices with cheers, jeers, and signs. And you, the audience at home, can vote for the next pick through the [CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP] ALL-STAR GAME POLL which will be displayed to the captains on the video board.

[Edgy MD]

I do like the idea of pimping out the naming rights in exchange for un-pimping the voting process, but I imagine it would still be a hard sell to MLB without them coming back with, "We'll do both."