Wright just 20,000 votes behind Polanco for All-Star nod

[bmfc1]

Darn! Polanco and Utley to the DL:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5340054&campaign=rss&source=twitter&ex_cid=Twitter_espn_5340054

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

bmfc1 wrote: Darn! Polanco and Utley to the DL: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5340054&campaign=rss&source=twitter&ex_cid=Twitter_espn_5340054

An even bigger DL fraud than Ollie. Polanco knows he's tempting the wrath of the baseball gods by accepting the stupidity of vote-happy Phillies fans and steps aside, giving David his rightful place as a starter.

Hell, he wants the NL to win, too, knowing what happened to the Phils last year.

[Ceetar]

I guess 3 (I have no ambition to look up if the Phillies are one that get 4) days off wasn't enough for polanco. Wright will likely get to beat being Jetlagged for the Giants series by going to west coast time early.

[G-Fafif]

Ceetar wrote: Wright will likely get to beat being Jetlagged for the Giants series by going to west coast time early.

Win-Win!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Centerfield wrote: People ask Placido Polanco for his autograph because they mistake him for Placido Domingo. Meanwhile, Placido Domingo has been known to ask David Wright for his autograph. David refuses to give it to him because his name is "Placido".

Out of the doorway, the bullets rip.

[Frayed Knot]

That MLB has apparently no problem with each team just blatantly begging for votes with no question as to whether they are actually deserved or not just disgusts me.

The only team-led campaign I liked was for the one "extra" spot that they started doing a few years ago when ChiSox catcher (and all-around pest) AJ Pierzinsky was one of the choices. This was coming off a week where AJ had been sucker-punched in an IL game vs the Cubs following a home-plate collision. The Sox encouraged their voters to go out and 'Punch AJ' for the duration of the voting period.

[G-Fafif]

To be fair to the Mets, they haven't asked a soul to vote for Daniel Murphy or Carlos Beltran this year. But what the hell is CB doing on the ballot? Murphy was penciled in 'til the final weekend of spring training, OK, but Beltran's been out since January.

Not that Gary Matthews Jr. on the ballot would have looked any better.

[Zvon]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: "Please... won't you help take this massive weight off my shoulders, if only for a little while?"

Ohh
MAH
GOD!

I thought seeing him on TV added a few pounds to that cranium.
But it really is inhumanly huge.

He must have to carve out the inside of his batting helmet to get
it on that pumpkin head. Where does he hail from? The Andromeda Galaxy?
That creeps me out even without a pulsing vein, like his relatives on Star Trek.

[Frayed Knot]

G-Fafif wrote: ... what the hell is CB doing on the ballot? Murphy was penciled in 'til the final weekend of spring training, OK, but Beltran's been out since January.

Because MLB expected him to be back a month or so into the season and the Mets probably would have objected had he been left off.
As always, MOST of the problems with AS voting can be traced to the fact that they start the process too early in the season.