  Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia Post Number: 549 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 75.9.255.242 |
Let's see if the forumers can add some weight to this. Voting goes only until 6PM tonight. Verlander is still in 4th place for the last all star position...but all it takes is votes from us to get him on the team. Like in Chicago, you can vote and vote often. See the link below: http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/index.jsp?c_id=det (Message edited by irish_mafia on July 06, 2006) (Message edited by irish_mafia on July 06, 2006) | ||
Ndavies Member Username: Ndavies Post Number: 1980 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 129.9.163.233 |
If this thread didn't do it: https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/75840.html?1152150851 what makes you think your new thread will help? | ||
Bobj Member Username: Bobj Post Number: 758 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 65.221.183.220 |
Lets vote and not quibble! | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2634 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 128.36.14.165 |
multiple threads will inspire multiple votes? | ||
Bobj Member Username: Bobj Post Number: 759 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 65.221.183.220 |
You can vote multiple times - lets do it! When was the last time that the Tigers had 4 players on the All Star team?? | ||
Ndavies Member Username: Ndavies Post Number: 1981 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 129.9.163.233 |
Nobody gives a shit. It's only baseball. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 1842 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 75.0.88.243 |
Nobody (relative term, but I'm emphasizing that the Tigers' bandwagon still isn't that large) gives a shit around here, even with the best team in baseball. We have the largest city and largest metropolitan area out of all the candidates, thus you'd think we'd have the largest fanbase to mobilize. But we're too apathetic...alright enough typing, back to voting. | ||
Lurker Member Username: Lurker Post Number: 1662 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 65.196.220.198 |
Detroit is bigger than Chicago now? | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 1847 Registered: 02-2005 Posted From: 75.0.88.243 |
Forgot about AJ. Damn him. Damn Chicago. haha but I bet there are more Tiger fans than White Sox fans...it's possible. (Message edited by mackinaw on July 06, 2006) | ||
Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia Post Number: 550 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 75.9.255.242 |
2 hours left | ||
Gambling_man Member Username: Gambling_man Post Number: 775 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 199.178.193.5 |
Send an e-mail to everyone on your list....you'd be suprised how many will respond..... | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 3399 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 69.47.100.44 |
I tossed in my fair share and I'm sure everyone else in here did as well. Well, no dice... Ozzie Guillen gets another one of his boys voted onto the team. It might be better in the long run though. I'm not sure if Verlander's ever pitched this kind of schedule so it might be good for him to rest up for a few days during the break. | ||
Irish_mafia Member Username: Irish_mafia Post Number: 551 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 75.9.255.242 |
Good try guys. Guess we'll just have to watch him pitch in the World Series | ||
Rjk Member Username: Rjk Post Number: 391 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 68.41.145.5 |
The all-star selection process is a joke. I'd still let the fans vote for the starters, but let the managers select the rest of the players and get rid of the concept that every team has to have a represenitive. Former Tiger Mark Redman is on the all-star team? This guy couldn't even crack the Tigers rotation. | ||
Rustic Member Username: Rustic Post Number: 2641 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 128.36.14.165 |
One solution would be to still require every team have one representative but expand the roster so that that representative isn't necessarily picked by position to fill a roster spot. Also this expanded roster allows the occasional inclusion of players in positions that happen to be topheavy with talent in a given year (e.g. this year 1b in the NL and C (and starting P) in the AL). Someone will always get slighted every year but it shouldn't be a Cy Young contenter or a perrenial allstar hitting 360. I like having every team represented. If you think it stinks having the AL allstar team seemingly be ~1/2 Yankees and Red Sox every year that would only get worse if you eliminated the slots for the worst teams. | ||
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa Post Number: 438 Registered: 09-2005 Posted From: 198.103.184.76 |
Rjk, looking at the voting process as is, the fan participation aspect -- although very popular -- is what makes the process less credible. Allowing the fans to choose the starters makes the all star game more of a popularity contest than an all star game. Baseball, being the ultimate game of statistics, could develop a computer program to select rosters for the game if it so choose. Fan participation and team representation continue to be the hallmarks of the mid season classic. This is probably for the best. However, do not knock the fact that all teams need to be represented when teams with large fan bases can dominate the starting line ups. I am sure Tigers fans enjoyed having a player at the game in 2003. | ||
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed Post Number: 331 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 209.220.229.254 |
I gotta admit, the "Punch A.J." campaign was quite clever. | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 3409 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 69.47.100.44 |
And deciding who has the home field advantage for the World Series in this, an EXHIBITION game just doesn't make sense. In essence, the home field advantage won't be decided by the best of either league (they'll already have played early on and left) if it stays tight later on. This has got to be the worst idea ever for the All Star game- and it's just a knee jerk reaction to that one game where it ended in a tie too. |
