TBS reports Beltran

[BobbyRoberto]

Well, Beltran is a deserving All-Star. What should they do with him? Let him play on the AL All-Star team, where the players and managers voted for him? Not let him be an All-Star at all?

When it comes right down to it, what I see happening is that MLB has added Beltran to the game and Berkman to the HR Derby, both of those guys play for the host team and should generate even more hometown fan interest.

[thetongueofire]

i also dont think that it should "count".. but Beltran has clearly played up to AS levels... and even the AL players chose him. whether he should be in there for the NL is a tricky question.

[great gretzky]

he isn't one of the best players in the NL?

I don't fully subscribe to the "better year" theory all the time. After all, the year is only half over. There has to be balance, and it can't all be name -- but career does have something to do with it, in addition the real pecking order be established. He is a true star, he is the NL, so he should be in it IMO.. Even if he displaces someone "more deserving".HE is by all accounts better than anyone else who isn't in the game isn't he? why shouldn't he be a replacement?

[bell]

he isn't one of the best players in the NL?

I don't fully subscribe to the "better year" theory all the time. After all, the year is only half over. There has to be balance, and it can't all be name -- but career does have something to do with it, in addition the real pecking order be established. He is a true star, he is the NL, so he should be in it IMO.. Even if he displaces someone "more deserving".HE is by all accounts better than anyone else who isn't in the game isn't he? why shouldn't he be a replacement?

Apparently that's the same logic that got Giambi into the All-Star game over players like Hatteberg, Konerko, Hafner, etc.

As for the NL, I do believe that Finley and Ramirez are more deserving than Beltran.

[Surfs up]

Bell I totally agree with your last post. We have players in the game that are there because of last year or because of their career. They don't belong . Yes the season is only half over but the players with the best numbers THIS YEAR should be voted in . And voted in by managers and NOT the fans.
Beltran should be playing . He didn't ask to get traded. But thats my opinion.