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June 30, 2002
The 2002 All-Star Game teams have been announced.: But don't worry, if your player didn't make the cut, you may have a chance to make things right by voting for the 30th Man. How did your picks stack up and who are you taking as #30?
posted by jerseygirl to baseball at 09:34 PM - 11 comments
I went Andruw Jones in the NL, Jim Thome in the AL. I'm just happy that my team has multiple All-Star reps this year. Damn Rolen taking the starting spot away from Lowell.
posted by bcb2k2 at 07:59 AM on July 01, 2002
Gotta go with Andruw Jones for the defense alone.
posted by trox at 08:38 AM on July 01, 2002
Damon in the AL, Klesko in the NL. Next year, I am looking forward to having a new AL coach in there besides Torre. Doesn't have to be my personal favorite, just someone - anyone - else. That's all I am saying.
posted by jerseygirl at 09:17 AM on July 01, 2002
Giles in the NL, Erstad in the AL.
posted by corpse at 09:51 AM on July 01, 2002
Suck this Selig: Vidro and Guerrero in the STARTING lineup! What can be sweeter? Oh right, a World Series...oops sorry for jinxing. Erstad AL; Jones NL.
posted by HoldenCaulfield at 10:01 AM on July 01, 2002
I think I just saw Pedro Martinez on TV declining to attend the All-Star Game... In other news, MLB has the updated vote totals up for the 30th Man. So far, Johnny Damon has a narrow lead over Jim Thome and Andruw Jones has a wide lead over Giles.
posted by jerseygirl at 09:34 PM on July 01, 2002
You did indeed, jgirl. Craig Counsell in, Kim out. Wasn't Kim the one that blew two saves for the D-backs in the last World Series? It's all going to be twenty miles from me, and I can't even go. How are you supposed to get tickets for this damn thing anyway? It's a day after my birthday and everything.
posted by evixir at 01:45 AM on July 02, 2002
Jones my ass, he's as overrated as Tom Glavine. Chavez in the AL, then Damon, Benitez in the NL!
posted by djacobs at 10:01 AM on July 02, 2002
Please explain how Andruw Jones is overrated. As for Byung-Hyun Kim, having seen him dismantle the Red Sox a couple of times, I would say his numbers this year made him an All-Star.
posted by yerfatma at 07:25 AM on July 03, 2002
Some additonal cometary (and rants) about the this year's all-stars from Salon's Allen Barra at: "Where have all the all-stars gone?" I think Barra misses the point. The mid and late 90s saw the maturiy of a new generation of stars (i.e. Bonds, Sosa, McGwire, A-Rod, Schilling, Johnson, etc.). However, baseball is at the point of a changing of the guard where new stars are emergering. I submit that that the same thing happened during the late 80s and early 90s. In a few years the young, emerging stars of today will just as goods the superstars of four or five years ago. Where have all the all-stars gone? They are here, just a bit early.
posted by Bag Man at 10:34 AM on July 03, 2002
I don't understand what the fans were thinking picking Rolen in the NL. For the extra spot in the NL I'd pick either Pujols or Klesko.