Pittsburgh all-star voting

[CheeseBeger]

I can't wait until KC gets the allstar game and get BOTH Redman and Reggie in!!!

But seriously, I don't think that its too much to ask to have a player from the home city to start the game, I think Bay is deserving enough. I think the NL was well selected (except Nomar, but hes getting voted in anyway) by the manager. AL maybe not so much.

[BoogieKnights]

Bay didn't just earn votes from Pittsburgh (though 50 such votes did come from me) but there was also a significant push for Canadian baseball fans to vote for him, too, from what I hear.

[jh2031]

And people wonder how the system is broken.....

So, Bay and Freddy didn't deserve to get in???

My comment has nothing to do with Bay or Freddy and their deservingness of an all-star spot. It is simply a general observation that any fan can vote hundreds of times and this exacerbates what I view as a problem about how we select the players. Obviously, others may disagree.

I voted for Wright, Reyes, Soriano and Andruw Jones just as many as I did for Bay and Sanchez. I just don't hit the homer button as some fans do. Plus, the reason they made that as you call it "vote hundreds of times" rule is because Pittsburgh is a very small market and can't compete with NY and other big markets. It's fair when you look at it from that stand point.

[teddy ballgame]

And people wonder how the system is broken.....

So, Bay and Freddy didn't deserve to get in???

My comment has nothing to do with Bay or Freddy and their deservingness of an all-star spot. It is simply a general observation that any fan can vote hundreds of times and this exacerbates what I view as a problem about how we select the players. Obviously, others may disagree.

I voted for Wright, Reyes, Soriano and Andruw Jones just as many as I did for Bay and Sanchez. I just don't hit the homer button as some fans do. Plus, the reason they made that as you call it "vote hundreds of times" rule is because Pittsburgh is a very small market and can't compete with NY and other big markets. It's fair when you look at it from that stand point.

How does that make it fair then? Every person gets 25 votes...that's fair. That's like saying well more people like George Bush so people who like Kerry should vote as much as they want so it's even.

[Bloody Sox]

Truthfully...I don't know why they still let people vote on the net. A few years ago some dude voted for Nomar like 90,000 times in one night. They caught him, but if they really wanted to, they should have been able to see that people were voting multiple times from the same place. It's pretty dang easy to make a new email...and heck, I used two emails and voted all those times.

Who has the All-Star Game next year? I'll bet their hometown fans do the same thing...it may not be so much the homers being enthused to vote...it's the people from the other cities not doing what it takes to get their own guys in.

Don't blame the net... blame the fact that they let people vote 25 times each per email address. Why not just once? If they did that, there wouldn't be that much reward for setting up a new email address - just one lousy vote.

And if I'm not mistaken, they let you log in and just vote for one guy - if they made you fill out an entire ballot - which takes time - that would discourage people from voting 250 times on 10 email addresses.

And they could even go further and make it so that people could only vote so many times (regardless of how many email addresses) from a given computer. Its pretty easy to track. Granted, you could fake out the system, but going back to the one vote idea - it wouldn't be worth the trouble.

[jh2031]

And people wonder how the system is broken.....

So, Bay and Freddy didn't deserve to get in???

My comment has nothing to do with Bay or Freddy and their deservingness of an all-star spot. It is simply a general observation that any fan can vote hundreds of times and this exacerbates what I view as a problem about how we select the players. Obviously, others may disagree.

I voted for Wright, Reyes, Soriano and Andruw Jones just as many as I did for Bay and Sanchez. I just don't hit the homer button as some fans do. Plus, the reason they made that as you call it "vote hundreds of times" rule is because Pittsburgh is a very small market and can't compete with NY and other big markets. It's fair when you look at it from that stand point.

How does that make it fair then? Every person gets 25 votes...that's fair. That's like saying well more people like George Bush so people who like Kerry should vote as much as they want so it's even.

So now we're comparing all-star votes to politics? Way to take this one off track. If it worked like you say it should...then there would be just Mets in the NL roster and Yankees/Red Sox on the AL roster. That's all I'm saying on this one.

[Berge20]

I personally think the entire voting system is rediculous anyway, especially now that the game determines World Series homefield advantage.

If I had my way, I'd have the managers pick the entire rosters.

I think that would eliminate a lot of the "less deserving" selections made by the fans in huge markets.

[jh2031]

I personally think the entire voting system is rediculous anyway, especially now that the game determines World Series homefield advantage.

If I had my way, I'd have the managers pick the entire rosters.

That's the way it should be. But since fans are allowed to vote...I'm going to vote as many times as I want for my teams players who deserve to go.

[teddy ballgame]

And people wonder how the system is broken.....

So, Bay and Freddy didn't deserve to get in???

My comment has nothing to do with Bay or Freddy and their deservingness of an all-star spot. It is simply a general observation that any fan can vote hundreds of times and this exacerbates what I view as a problem about how we select the players. Obviously, others may disagree.

I voted for Wright, Reyes, Soriano and Andruw Jones just as many as I did for Bay and Sanchez. I just don't hit the homer button as some fans do. Plus, the reason they made that as you call it "vote hundreds of times" rule is because Pittsburgh is a very small market and can't compete with NY and other big markets. It's fair when you look at it from that stand point.

How does that make it fair then? Every person gets 25 votes...that's fair. That's like saying well more people like George Bush so people who like Kerry should vote as much as they want so it's even.

So now we're comparing all-star votes to politics? Way to take this one off track. If it worked like you say it should...then there would be just Mets in the NL roster and Yankees/Red Sox on the AL roster. That's all I'm saying on this one.

I'm not taking anything off track. It's called a comparison. People use them to make points.

If there are more Mets, Yankees, and Red Sox fans then anyone else, and the game is for the fans, then why shouldn't the roster be full of them?

[RAmst23]

And people wonder how the system is broken.....

So, Bay and Freddy didn't deserve to get in???

My comment has nothing to do with Bay or Freddy and their deservingness of an all-star spot. It is simply a general observation that any fan can vote hundreds of times and this exacerbates what I view as a problem about how we select the players. Obviously, others may disagree.

I voted for Wright, Reyes, Soriano and Andruw Jones just as many as I did for Bay and Sanchez. I just don't hit the homer button as some fans do. Plus, the reason they made that as you call it "vote hundreds of times" rule is because Pittsburgh is a very small market and can't compete with NY and other big markets. It's fair when you look at it from that stand point.

How does that make it fair then? Every person gets 25 votes...that's fair. That's like saying well more people like George Bush so people who like Kerry should vote as much as they want so it's even.

So now we're comparing all-star votes to politics? Way to take this one off track. If it worked like you say it should...then there would be just Mets in the NL roster and Yankees/Red Sox on the AL roster. That's all I'm saying on this one.

I'm not taking anything off track. It's called a comparison. People use them to make points.

If there are more Mets, Yankees, and Red Sox fans then anyone else, and the game is for the fans, then why shouldn't the roster be full of them?

It would work, except your comparison was abyssmal. Anyway, the rosters ARE full of Mets, Yankess, and Red Soxs. The AL starters contain 3 Boston players and 2 Yankees. In the NL, there are 4 Mets starting. So yea, good point.

9 starters out of 16 are from those three teams. The reason more NY, and Red Sox players didn't make it is because those fans aren't completely stupid, and recognize to vote for truely great players on other teams. Anyway, having managers choose all the players isn't a great solution either. How many White Sox are reserves, 6? Also, wasn't Liriano left off the roster (Though it does look like he might make it on anyway).

There's no perfect way to do this, which in my mind means that the
All Star game should stop choosing who gets WS home advantage.
The point of adding this stipulation to the game was to increase ratings, and yet the ratings have never been lower for this event. Cut it out, change it.