ALLSTAR VOTING

The polls are now open an its time to vote for this years lucky sixty-four players (eight starting fielders, twelve pitchers, and twelve reserves) who will be heading to the Major League Baseball All Star Game. This means around 9% of the league will be participating (just including the players on the roster in the actually game with reserves and based on every team having a 25 man active roster) with fans voting sixteen or 2% of the league in.

The MLB All Star Game and BCS Bowl Games are probably the two sporting events that get the worst rep. But in the end when the game(s) start everybody just stops arguing and watches some of the best sports they're going to see all year.

THE WAY I SEE IT- The reason everyone argues about All Star game is because its voting system is corrupt and it's way to easy to stuff ballots and vote players in who you like but don't really deserve it. Heck, I've even done it myself. And now two weeks in to the voting you can already see it happening. Evan Longoria is the leading vote getter with 1,036,071 votes. Come on Evan Longoria? That's who America thinks is the best American League player right now? Longoria? If he was the best in the league won't he be in the top five for the AL in OBS, AVG, OBP, or HR, because he's not. So do you think that he should be leading the third most vote getter in the AL by 248,452 votes or be leading the second place vote getter for third base by 594,159, and by the way, the person he's beating is A-Rod a three time MVP winner, the last on being in 2007.

There are things wrong with the player selection for the All Star game but not enough wrong not to make it one of the highlights of the year. This was just an example of bad voting which hopeful anyone who reads this won't do. So if you vote smart, America should be position for some great baseball in a month.