Jul 01
San Francisco Giant Pablo Sandoval beat out David Wright to start at third base for this year’s All Star Game. Sandoval, who is has a 307 batting average with 25 RBI’s in only 44 games, beat out Wright by over a million and a half votes. David Wright will be on the roster as a reserve player for the National League.
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25 comments
Stick
7/1/2012-3:37pm at 3:37 pm (UTC -4)
probably the biggest travesty in the voting this year.
But, no real biggie, since he is going anyway. And of course his friend Dickey is going with him.
pretty much the only 2 Mets that should be going (Sorry, johan!)
you know the voting is worthless when a guy like Utley is in the top couple at his position, before he has even played a game.
srt
7/1/2012-4:02pm at 4:02 pm (UTC -4)
Wright had some 440,000 lead going into the last day.
Sandoval comes up with 2 million extra votes in the last 24 hours.
Something fishy about that.
gategem
7/1/2012-7:10pm at 7:10 pm (UTC -4)
Well, Fishermans Wharf is known for the outstanding seafood available there.
FREEREDIS
7/1/2012-4:06pm at 4:06 pm (UTC -4)
where did you find the final vote tallies?
Stick
7/1/2012-4:35pm at 4:35 pm (UTC -4)
totally off topic, but Phils free fall continues. Just finished getting swept in Miami, and about to fall to 9 games under .500 and 11 out.
talk about a drop off from the prior year! And so much for their “core stars’ coming back to save the day. I think they are now 0-5 since Utley was activated!
I just hope they don’t right the ship next week vs. the mets…
oh, and they have some good examples of why BPs are so hard to predict year to year. Last season, Bastardo is a lock down late innings machine. This year, he’s Ollie Perez.
Mr North Jersey
7/1/2012-4:43pm at 4:43 pm (UTC -4)
Phils reporting they ended up trading Qualls to Yanks for player to be named later.
Stick
7/1/2012-4:52pm at 4:52 pm (UTC -4)
surprised they actually got something from him. pen help must be more valuable that I thought. Trade rauch?
srt
7/1/2012-5:22pm at 5:22 pm (UTC -4)
Nothing makes me happier than the free falling Phils.
Yankees are picking up all kind of arm scraps. Schwinden, now Qualls. If Qualls was awful enough to get DFA’d by Philly – whose BP isn’t much better than ours – then I can’t figure out what the Yankees see in him.
gategem
7/1/2012-7:12pm at 7:12 pm (UTC -4)
Whatever it is they still continue to win.
Mr North Jersey
7/1/2012-7:17pm at 7:17 pm (UTC -4)
“Whatever it is they still continue to win.”
Remind me to never stand next to you holding a balloon.
Matt
7/1/2012-4:39pm at 4:39 pm (UTC -4)
This is an embarassment to the all-star game, baseball and especially cheating fans. Sandoval only played 1/2 of the first half, 44 games. Wright would come in 2nd in MVP voting if the season ended today. Votto coming in first. Wright batting .355 w/ over 50 RBIs, and unbelievable OB percentage and an OPS of over 1.0. He has also scored almost 50 runs. Imagine if he was on a good team. He’s always be intentionally walked or pitched around. SF set up rooms for voting, where you sit.there all day voting with made up email addresses. Sandoval should step up acknowledge the travesty and defer to Wright and go as a backup. Giant fans aught to be embarassed of themselves. It’s time for MLB to take the voting away from the fans and.give the starting votes to managers, coaches and broadcasters who see the whole league. This turns my stomach to the point I won’t even watch the Danny thing. What a joke!!!!!
srt
7/1/2012-5:23pm at 5:23 pm (UTC -4)
‘SF set up rooms for voting, where you sit.there all day voting with made up email addresses. ‘
What? For real?
If that’s the case, MLB really ought to rethink this whole fan voting idea. Let the players and coaches pick them.
gategem
7/1/2012-7:17pm at 7:17 pm (UTC -4)
They tried only having players and coaches make the decision and that sucked too. It’s the fans game and let the fans have it. Personally, I think players should be voted in based on their performance from the last all-star game so you have a full years evaluation rather than half a season. But honestly I don’t even watch the damn thing.
Pablo Sandoval
7/1/2012-10:53pm at 10:53 pm (UTC -4)
You are an idiot. I am from SF lived here all my life and I have never seen a single “voting room” that you’re talking about. And if you were voted onto the all star team would you defer to some one else? Didn’t think so. Damn angry mets fans getting mad because Giants fans are the loudest most dedicated and all around best fans in the MLB. Alright I’m done see you guys in the playoffs. You know, those games in october that actually matter. I’m counting on you guys to take that wild card spot away from the dodgers. Don’t let me down
Mr North Jersey
7/1/2012-11:19pm at 11:19 pm (UTC -4)
I think he means this.
http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120626&content_id=33971658¬ebook_id=33987398&vkey=notebook_sf&c_id=sf
srt
7/1/2012-11:23pm at 11:23 pm (UTC -4)
Dude, don’t shoot the messenger. Might want to do some reading before you go shooting off:
http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120626&content_id=33971658¬ebook_id=33987398&vkey=notebook_sf&c_id=sf
The club invited 15 fans who had tweeted about how much they’ve been voting for Giants players to come to AT&T Park to a conference room that was decorated to be the “Campaign Headquarters,” where the participants were provided with computers to vote as many times as they could throughout Tuesday’s game.
“We wanted to take the chance to not only reward them, but ask them to help us,” Giants director of social media Bryan Srabian said. “We asked them to come in and spend the game voting. This is just all about our fans getting behind a special campaign like this. It’s exciting.”
TRS86
7/1/2012-11:28pm at 11:28 pm (UTC -4)
Sorry but that’s pretty damn shitty. I never could understand why you get ore than one vote anyway.
Mr North Jersey
7/1/2012-4:45pm at 4:45 pm (UTC -4)
Hopefully Wright uses this and goes out tonight and has a great game.
Mr North Jersey
7/1/2012-4:46pm at 4:46 pm (UTC -4)
Also while Wright didnt get voted he still is going and probably the bigger story should be that Dickey is going to 1st ASG.
Barry
7/1/2012-4:51pm at 4:51 pm (UTC -4)
It’s clear the MLB’s website was hacked.
4 Million votes in the last 24 hours when there were less than half a million votes over the entire prior period!
You couldn’t get 4 million people worked up enough to vote on anything, let alone their starting 3B man.
How many people are there in SF?
MLB will probably not admit that the vote was tainted. It would tarnish their squeaky-clean image: You know, juicing aside.
Dave
7/3/2012-12:27am at 12:27 am (UTC -4)
The city of San Francisco itself has about 850,000 but has a metro area of about 8 million. Not to mention that California has 35 million people, with the Giants being the most popular baseball team in the state.
darknova306
7/1/2012-5:14pm at 5:14 pm (UTC -4)
Meh, I haven’t cared about the ASG since 1998, and see no reason to start once again. If you honestly want the best player at each position to start the ASG, take voting away from fans. If you want the ASG to actually be a fan-focused exhibition, let them vote for who they want to see, and take away the silly World Series home field nonsense.
I don’t see how anyone could possibly make me care any less about any of this.
gategem
7/1/2012-7:20pm at 7:20 pm (UTC -4)
Its like the NFL all-star game (pro-bowl) and my only comment is “yawn.”
Mr North Jersey
7/1/2012-6:55pm at 6:55 pm (UTC -4)
Trying to figure out how big a push it took to beat out Wright and this what it looks like.
On Tuesday at 3:00pm in the afternoon Mets.com after the 4th update that day of the All-Star Game balloting released a post asking for more votes to “solidify” Wright as the starting 3B at the ASG.
At that time Wright had 2,687,818 votes and Sandoval had 2,223,269 votes giving Wright a 464,549 lead.
In 2 1/2 days from that last update Sandoval received 3,520,273 votes finishing with 5,743,542 votes.
Wright in that same span received 1,445,562 votes finishing with 4,133,380 votes.
Resulting in Sandoval beating Wright out by 1,610,162 votes.
So Sandoval in around 60 hours got more votes than what he got since ballots were open up till the last update on Tuesday combined.
That is a hardcore push.
Mr North Jersey
7/2/2012-4:13am at 4:13 am (UTC -4)
Up late unable 2 sleep. scanning net and saw this.
http://www.csnbayarea.com/baseball-san-francisco-giants/giants-talk/Giants-fans-rock-the-vote-elect-three-Al?blockID=733796
“But nothing symbolized the ballot-box stuffing more than this: Freddy Sanchez, who hasn’t played an inning in more than a year because of shoulder and back issues, ranked fourth among NL second basemen with 2,289,147 votes.
“I was getting nervous,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said, tongue in cheek. “Because I didn’t have Freddy all year and here he was going to get a shot to start the All-Star Game.”
- SMH