Bobby is currently the General Manager and Assistant Publisher at the Daily Statesman after serving his term as Managing Editor. He wears many hats in the office, including coordinator of all things online, but his real passion is sports.

This time it counts! Really!

Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2008, at 2:11 PM

All-Star 'Phat' Albert deposits one into the cheap seats!

If the baseball All-Star game is going to count for something like home field advantage during the World Series I think some rules need to be changed, especially if a billion people in Japan are going to 'manipulate' the voting!

What do you think? How can a group of bloggers from the Daily Statesman straighten out how the All-Star teams are selected?

If we get this straightened out maybe we can work on the referees in the NBA!

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All-Star voting should totally be left up to the paying customer. There should be no online voting. It should be determined by the coaches, players, and people that actually attend the ball games. It has gotten to the point to where I don't even cast a ballot when I go to the games, because I know you can vote up to 25 times online for each email address you have. It's crazy.

-- Posted by grizz1 on Tue, Jul 15, 2008, at 3:59 PM
All Stars should be selected by the Coaches and players within each league. Paying customers know very little about putting together the best team, and a lot about voting for their favorite players which may not be All Star worthy.

I remember when I was a prep league All-Star and our Morgan furniture manager wasn't going to pick me. My Mom and Dad got all up in him and scared him in to not only picking me, but starting me at Short Stop.

-- Posted by shannonhoon on Tue, Jul 15, 2008, at 5:37 PM
I dont know about that hoonowski. If you leave it up to the coaches you end up with the whole Gisi Oil team being selected.

-- Posted by Cliff Burton on Tue, Jul 15, 2008, at 5:42 PM
That's awesome hoon. Kudos to mom and dad. That is exactly what parents should do for their children. Gisi Oil #1, boorrrrrrrm!!!

-- Posted by BonScott on Tue, Jul 15, 2008, at 8:07 PM
Too much money in these pro sports anymore. Let's fix that. Maybe we could get Hoon's parents on the case...

-- Posted by layne staley on Tue, Jul 15, 2008, at 9:29 PM
I hit .224 and only had 8 errors in the Sikeston Tournament. I got a trophy and a medal.

-- Posted by shannonhoon on Wed, Jul 16, 2008, at 7:45 AM
It actually only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

-- Posted by BonScott on Thu, Jul 17, 2008, at 12:17 AM
Sometimes it's hard to tell when you guys are being sarcastic and when you're being serious.

-- Posted by ct on Thu, Jul 17, 2008, at 3:16 PM
But NOT hard to tell when we are being intelligent! Good coaching Greer!!!!!!

-- Posted by shannonhoon on Thu, Jul 17, 2008, at 7:18 PM
ct, sometimes I don't know when I'm being sarcastic or serious. Like right now, I'm probably being sarcerious. Oh well.

Fins to the left, Fins to the right, you're the only bait in town.

-- Posted by BonScott on Thu, Jul 17, 2008, at 9:29 PM
Interleague play has made the All-Star game completely insignificant. Big egos have made it completely boring. At least 95% of the fans don't know jack**** about baseball and shouldn't be able to vote in anyone. Those same loser "fans" ruined old Busch Stadium by buying up tickets to see McGwire play and the owners completely destroyed the bleacher sections because of it.

And, every person over the age of 12 who wears a jersey with some major league player's name on the back of it is an idiot.

I am the Lizard King�I can do anything.

-- Posted by Jim Morrison on Thu, Jul 17, 2008, at 11:37 PM

Bobby Greer's response:
I have to give McGwire and Sosa some credit for bringing a lot of fans back to baseball after a tough time..... and I like wearing my Yadier Molina jersey. If any Cardinal should have been in the All-Star game this year, it should have been Yadi.
BG....agree with the Molina Opinion......4 stolen bases through 6 innings??????? Cubs catcher suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuux at throwing out thieves.

My name is Shannon Hoon, and I hate sliders in the dirt.

-- Posted by shannonhoon on Fri, Jul 18, 2008, at 10:19 AM

Bobby Greer's response:
Shannon Hoon.... a case of 'the system' holding the man down!
The Cub loving Japanese voters skewed the whole deal. Fukudome and Soto shouldn't have even been in New York let alone in the starting lineup.
I heard Fukudome doesn't like playing in indoor stadiums.

-- Posted by layne staley on Sat, Jul 19, 2008, at 10:32 AM

Bobby Greer's response:
How about somewhere outdoors..... like in the Dominican Republic! I don't think he could hang there either.
Last time I typed something like Fukudome, I was banned from the site.

-- Posted by shannonhoon on Sat, Jul 19, 2008, at 5:40 PM

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