6 more players bow out of All-Star game

[El Supremo]

PHOENIX (AP)—Baseball could field an All-Star team just from the players who will be missing from Tuesday’s game.

Tampa Bay’s David Price became the latest star to withdraw, citing turf toe, and five other starting pitchers were declared ineligible because they played Sunday.

The Yankees’ CC Sabathia, the Rays’ James Shields, the Detroit Tigers’ Justin Verlander, the Seattle Mariners’ Felix Hernandez and the Philadelphia Phillies’ Cole Hamels all were knocked out because of their starts. Sabathia had been bypassed when rosters were announced a week ago, but replaced Shields when the Tampa Bay pitcher appeared Sunday.

Replacing them as All-Stars were the Yankees’ David Robertson, the Texas Rangers’ Alexi Ogando, the Seattle Mariners’ Michael Pineda, the Toronto Blue Jays’ Ricky Romero and the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Kevin Correia....

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-all-starreplacements

:wtf: This is not good for baseball.

[Upton]

1. Yahoo...

San Francisco infielder Pedro Sandoval replaced the Mets’ Jose Reyes(notes), on the DL with a hamstring injury.

[El Supremo]

2. Did they just call Pedro up from the minors?

Is he the brother of Pablo? Wouldn't put it past Bochy!

:rofl:

[hughee99]

4. At least they're not bringing back Sammy Sooser and Mike McGwire. n/t

[El Supremo]

3. The Gods will have revenge! >>

[El Supremo]

5. Make that 7 more!

Philadelphia third baseman Placido Polanco missed the Phillies’ final six games heading into the All-Star break because of a bad back.

[Iggo]

6. But this time it counts!

:eyes:

[madinmaryland]

7. Thanks to $elig id does.

It would be funny if the Natinal league won and the Pirates got the home field advantage in the World Series!!

:P

[El Supremo]

8. ...

[madinmaryland]

9. Interesting, but attendance is up nearly 50% in Pittsburgh this year.

Very interesting!!

[El Supremo]

11. I hear that Clint Hurdle is the leading candidate for NL Manager of the Year.

Anticlimactic?

[KamaAina]

17. The Buccos are a game back of both Milwaukee and St. Louis at the break

Your team, meanwhile, sits five games below .500 and trails the World Champions by eight and one-half games (and the other expansion team by five and one-half).

So where exactly are those pigs flying?

[El Supremo]

18. Thanks for the up-to-date standings!

So when did you become a Pirates fan? Or was it the Kaneohe Pirates?

[KamaAina]

19. Actually, it was Seton Hall

:P

The point being, it's hardly unrealistic for fans a team that's one game out of its division lead at the break to be thinking about the Series, no matter how colossally awful that team may have been in years past.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. And, Boy Do i Hate That

Talk about a ridiculous overreaction. It would have been much simpler to have simply stated that the game is a 9 inning exhibition game FOR THE FANS! Most fans already knew the game wasn't for real, so it wouldn't have been shock to most fans, and then the "for the fans" thing would have made the rest happy.

But, no! Bud has to muck up the works by doing exactly the wrong thing.
GAC

[Iggo]

14. I hate it with the heat of a thousand suns.

An exhibition game should NOT decide home field for the World Series.

That is the all-time stupidest fucking decision in the history of stupid things.

[Auggie]

20. What's fair -- best winning percentage?

That would be my pick

[El Supremo]

21. Whichever league wins the most interleague games.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

The NL would never have home field!

[KamaAina]

22. That's pretty much the way it worked under the current system

until last year. Just in the nick of time, too. :-)

[Iggo]

23. Best record.

[Renew Deal]

10. I'm sure the players that play will do great!

:bounce:

[El Supremo]

12. It's at 8 now.

Matt Cain pitched tonight. So he's out. I think Atlanta Braves’ Craig Kimbrel replaced him.

That is 16 players total out - so far.

[Kingofalldems]

15. That's great--Bochy can bring in one of his minor leaguers

and put him on the all star team.

[TZ]

16. +1000