MLB 2014

Lucky

Lucky

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One fifth of the way into the season last year's WS teams are both .500 or below. But the Red Sox are still only a couple of games back. Everyone in the AL East is near .500. It's NFL style parity.
 
PUSH

PUSH

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Lucky said:
One fifth of the way into the season last year's WS teams are both .500 or below. But the Red Sox are still only a couple of games back. Everyone in the AL East is near .500. It's NFL style parity.
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Don't even bother. We all know who's going to take it all.
 
Lucky

Lucky

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StarWarsGirl95 said:
All Star Game Voting has opened. You can vote here:
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/all_s...erian&tcid=ASG14_experian_homepage-mediawalls

You can vote up to 35 times per email address. My ballot:
American League: 8 Orioles, 1 Tampa Bay (Zobrist instead of Flaherty)
National League: 8 Nats, 1 Brewers (Lucroy instead of Ramos)
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Every July the players and sports media complain that the fans didn't vote for the players with the best statistics. Well then, MLB shouldn't open the voting in early May. How are we supposed to know who will have the best statistics two months from now? :banghead:
 
PUSH

PUSH

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Lucky said:
Every July the players and sports media complain that the fans didn't vote for the players with the best statistics. Well then, MLB shouldn't open the voting in early May. How are we supposed to know who will have the best statistics two months from now? :banghead:
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It's the same for the NFL, kinda. Fans vote based on names rather than performance. That's why all of these all-star games that are fan-voted are jokes IMO. If people would voted based on performance rather than big-names/their favorite team's players, they'd be more entertaining.
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
No
Lucky said:
Every July the players and sports media complain that the fans didn't vote for the players with the best statistics. Well then, MLB shouldn't open the voting in early May. How are we supposed to know who will have the best statistics two months from now? :banghead:
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And when you vote at the ballpark by paper, like I do, the only statistics you can see are those on the screen from the two teams who are playing. And then players who have been injured come back, others get injured, but they want to make sure everyone votes at some point. My general policy is, however, and has always been, to vote for my teams unless I have a reason not to (for instance, last year I refused to vote for Roberts, this year I refused to vote for Flaherty).
 
Lucky

Lucky

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PUSH said:
It's the same for the NFL, kinda. Fans vote based on names rather than performance. That's why all of these all-star games that are fan-voted are jokes IMO. If people would voted based on performance rather than big-names/their favorite team's players, they'd be more entertaining.
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You can't have it both ways. Either it's all about the fans and who they want to see, or it's something else. But don't blame the fans for doing exactly what you know they'll do. It's not as if they're even provided with any criteria - it's just "here's your ballot, vote for the ones you like, and listen to us whine about your choices later."
 
PUSH

PUSH

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Lucky said:
You can't have it both ways. Either it's all about the fans and who they want to see, or it's something else. But don't blame the fans for doing exactly what you know they'll do. It's not as if they're even provided with any criteria - it's just "here's your ballot, vote for the ones you like, and listen to us whine about your choices later."
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True. Fans are going to vote for who they want to see. Each fan has a different criteria for who should go in, whether that be favorite player or best player, etc. Most all-star games just bore me.
 
Lucky

Lucky

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StarWarsGirl95 said:
And when you vote at the ballpark by paper, like I do, the only statistics you can see are those on the screen from the two teams who are playing. And then players who have been injured come back, others get injured, but they want to make sure everyone votes at some point. My general policy is, however, and has always been, to vote for my teams unless I have a reason not to (for instance, last year I refused to vote for Roberts, this year I refused to vote for Flaherty).
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Probably at least half of voters do the same thing. Way back in 1957 the Reds had 7 starters on the NL All Star team. A Cincinnati newspaper had distributed pre-marked ballots with its Sunday paper. After that they discontinued fan voting until 1970.
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
No
PUSH said:
It's the same for the NFL, kinda. Fans vote based on names rather than performance. That's why all of these all-star games that are fan-voted are jokes IMO. If people would voted based on performance rather than big-names/their favorite team's players, they'd be more entertaining.
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Why have voting at all if you're just going to take the players with the highest averages?
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
No
Lucky said:
Probably at least half of voters do the same thing. Way back in 1957 the Reds had 7 starters on the NL All Star team. A Cincinnati newspaper had distributed pre-marked ballots with its Sunday paper. After that they discontinued fan voting until 1970.
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That's been obvious a few times with the amount of Yankees on the team. Except for last year when the Yankees were bad
 

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