Bad news, Bronx boo-birds: the diamond will be filled with red B's, and not white interlocking NY's, when the American League all stars take the field for the final All Star Game at Yankee Stadium.
As of this writing, Kevin Youkilis, Dustin Pedroia and Manny Ramirez are leading the way in the all-star votes for their respective positions. Jason Varitek trails Joe Mauer in a close race for catcher. The only Yanks who lead in balloting are A-Rod at third and that guy who used to date Mariah Carey over at short. Hideki Matsui could get the nod at DH over David Ortiz, who is leading in votes but is likely out due to injury. Johnny Damon is being a whiney baby about how he deserves a shot, but he is in sixth place in the outfield voting race, almost 300,000 votes behind 3rd place vote-getter Ichiro Suzuki.
In other words, there's a mighty good chance the whole right side of the infield will be Red Soxers at this year's Mid-Summer Classic. Meanwhile, the left side will be be occupied by two sure-thing All-Stars whose tickets to the game were punched in March. It also means five (six if Varitek makes the cut) of the eight starting position players will be Red Sox and/or Yankees. Will the Bleacher Creatures do a roll-call and conveniently skip over Man-Ram, Peds and Youkie? Probably.
Maybe a Yankee pitcher will start the game to settle the score. Oh, wait a minute.
More updates on the All Star voting are available on Kat O'Brien's blog at www.newsday.com/sports. Get into it - it's gonna be a heck of a game.
--Whittle
Comments (5)
So Whittle....
How long have you been watchin baseball?
or any sport for that matter?
It doan mattah how or who ya start....it's who and how ya close.
And we all know who's gonna be closing the All Star Game.
The best pitcher in baseball.
Even Francona is smart enough to realize that.
(BTW, how come you didn't include Francona in your list of Bosox starters?---Sheesh, still havin trouble with that math thing, eh?).
BTW Whittle,
"Weap" is not a word...
Couldn't even pass for a non-challenged Scrabble word.
Everytime you post on here you bring in Bosonics.
Any chance you can get Manny or Coco to ghostwrite for you?
Where is Dennehy?
Studying the centerfold in Strunk and White?
I can't wait to find the clan that ruined the Irish race by allowing the dirt to land in Boston.
My crystal ball says the only Sox starter will be Manny. Papi will get the vote but won't play and Youk and Pedroia will be edged out. Francona will put at least one of them on the team and will throw in Papelbon for good measure.
Jeter and A-Rod will be joined by Mussina and Mo to represent the AL NYers.
Why is this dirtbag in Newsday? First you go nuts with your Ranger coverage and now this? YOU ARE A LONG ISLAND paper..Pro Yankee Anti-Red Sox. Does the boston Globe put a Yankees blog in there? Doubt it!
Why is this dirtbag in Newsday? First you go nuts with your Ranger coverage and now this? YOU ARE A LONG ISLAND paper..Pro Yankee Anti-Red Sox. Does the boston Globe put a Yankees blog in there? Doubt it!