All Star Voting?

[David]

When does it usually start? Just curious.

 

There's quite a few guys I'd like to vote for on this team (yes, I realize we're 3 weeks in).

[David]

I know vance is in on this... Lee over Pujols needs to happen this year...

[chuckywang]

I know vance is in on this... Lee over Pujols needs to happen this year...

 

Yeah, but Pujols is having a better season so far.

[Ryno is God 23]

I know vance is in on this... Lee over Pujols needs to happen this year...

 

Yeah, but Pujols is having a better season so far.

 

Lee

.353AVE/.411OBP/.671SLUG

7HR/17RBI/62B/30H

 

Albert

.352AVE/.495OBP/.606SLUG

4HR/16RBI/62B/25H

[chuckywang]

I know vance is in on this... Lee over Pujols needs to happen this year...

 

Yeah, but Pujols is having a better season so far.

 

Lee

.353AVE/.411OBP/.671SLUG

7HR/17RBI/62B/30H

 

Albert

.352AVE/.495OBP/.606SLUG

4HR/16RBI/62B/25H

 

174 OPS+ vs. 189 OPS+

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I think voting usually starts sometime in early May. I'll be all over it. With the way the Cubs have been hitting, I have no qualms voting nearly an all-Cubs ballot.

[TruffleShuffle]

don't lie vance... your students have each voted 1500 times already.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

don't lie vance... your students have each voted 1500 times already.

 

 

With what I have left to cover in the next three weeks, I doubt it. My eighth graders are knee-deep in Romeo and Juliet and my seventh graders, well there a bit behind where I'm going to need them to be for next year.

[David]

I remember when we watched the old Romeo and Juliet at school and there was that one scene with a boob shot. That was awesome.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

I remember when we watched the old Romeo and Juliet at school and there was that one scene with a boob shot. That was awesome.

 

 

Yeah, I don't show that one. My students usually enjoy the modernized one.

[David]

Yea, I think we saw that one too. It was pretty new when we were covering it. Maybe a year or two old.

[Omar]

I'm surprised the All-Star voting hasn't started. Usually it has this many games into the season.

[Andy]

I remember when we watched the old Romeo and Juliet at school and there was that one scene with a boob shot. That was awesome.

For a half-second. The girl who played Juliet was 13, which was awesome when I was in 9th grade because I was 13, but would be insanely weird now.

 

As of now I'm probably voting for all Cubs except Soriano but we'll see how the next few weeks play out.

[Hacking Out Machine]

One thing that I find interesting is that the Cubs usually do very poorly in All Star voting. With the reputation that Cub fans have, i.e. blind faith lemmings that jam the park every day, you would think that Cub players would regularly be at or near the top in all star voting. This has never been the case. Sosa used to always be up there, but that was due to his popularity around the league and his HR rep. Ramirez has never been close to starting, I don't know that Lee has, and there has never been an example of a Cub showing up among the voting leaders that made you scratch your head.

 

Not sure why that is, but maybe since so many are doing well this year, Cub fans will be a bit more selfish and vote our guys in. (Kosuke, Soto, Lee, Ramirez, etc)

[Mizzou]

One thing that I find interesting is that the Cubs usually do very poorly in All Star voting. With the reputation that Cub fans have, i.e. blind faith lemmings that jam the park every day, you would think that Cub players would regularly be at or near the top in all star voting. This has never been the case. Sosa used to always be up there, but that was due to his popularity around the league and his HR rep. Ramirez has never been close to starting, I don't know that Lee has, and there has never been an example of a Cub showing up among the voting leaders that made you scratch your head.

 

Not sure why that is, but maybe since so many are doing well this year, Cub fans will be a bit more selfish and vote our guys in. (Kosuke, Soto, Lee, Ramirez, etc)

Do they hand out ballots at Wrigley? I thought I remember hearing that they haven't done that in the past few years, and if that's the case, that's likely a big reason why because they do it at other stadiums.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

One thing that I find interesting is that the Cubs usually do very poorly in All Star voting. With the reputation that Cub fans have, i.e. blind faith lemmings that jam the park every day, you would think that Cub players would regularly be at or near the top in all star voting. This has never been the case. Sosa used to always be up there, but that was due to his popularity around the league and his HR rep. Ramirez has never been close to starting, I don't know that Lee has, and there has never been an example of a Cub showing up among the voting leaders that made you scratch your head.

 

Not sure why that is, but maybe since so many are doing well this year, Cub fans will be a bit more selfish and vote our guys in. (Kosuke, Soto, Lee, Ramirez, etc)

Do they hand out ballots at Wrigley? I thought I remember hearing that they haven't done that in the past few years, and if that's the case, that's likely a big reason why because they do it at other stadiums.

 

 

I think fans at Wrigley aren't given the ballots quite as profusely as they are in other venues. I know when I was in Houston during the voting, they had a big thing on the jumbotron and then at one point in the game passed ballots out and then later collected them.

 

Those pushes in other parks probably are what causes this.

[Productive Outs]

if soto keeps it up, he definitely deserves a spot

[David]

Just got a text from MLB informing me that voting has begun.

[ConstableRabbit]

I remember when we watched the old Romeo and Juliet at school and there was that one scene with a boob shot. That was awesome.

For a half-second. The girl who played Juliet was 13, which was awesome when I was in 9th grade because I was 13, but would be insanely weird now.

 

As of now I'm probably voting for all Cubs except Soriano but we'll see how the next few weeks play out.

Haha she was 15.

[jersey cubs fan]

One thing that I find interesting is that the Cubs usually do very poorly in All Star voting. With the reputation that Cub fans have, i.e. blind faith lemmings that jam the park every day, you would think that Cub players would regularly be at or near the top in all star voting. This has never been the case. Sosa used to always be up there, but that was due to his popularity around the league and his HR rep. Ramirez has never been close to starting, I don't know that Lee has, and there has never been an example of a Cub showing up among the voting leaders that made you scratch your head.

 

Not sure why that is, but maybe since so many are doing well this year, Cub fans will be a bit more selfish and vote our guys in. (Kosuke, Soto, Lee, Ramirez, etc)

Do they hand out ballots at Wrigley? I thought I remember hearing that they haven't done that in the past few years, and if that's the case, that's likely a big reason why because they do it at other stadiums.

 

 

I think fans at Wrigley aren't given the ballots quite as profusely as they are in other venues. I know when I was in Houston during the voting, they had a big thing on the jumbotron and then at one point in the game passed ballots out and then later collected them.

 

Those pushes in other parks probably are what causes this.

 

Or maybe the Cubs haven't had many good players.

[Yeti]

wrigley is the only venue ive been to a game at that didnt have 2 ballots in every cup holder in the park

[David]

So, what happened to vance's All Star voting campaign sticky thread?

[ChiCubsFan]

I could see Lee, Soto, and Fukudome all having a chance to get voted in.

 

Right now the most deserving players to this point are:

C-Soto

1B-Berkman

2B-Utley

SS-Ramirez (stong case can be made for Furcal as well)

3B-Chipper

OF-McLouth

OF-Holliday

OF-Burrell

 

Ludwick probably deserves to be on there instead of one of those OF, but I refuse to acknowledge his ridiculous start to the season.