Kerry's email to help a Red Sox player win a slot in the all star game

[karynnj]

Apparently, our favorite Senator sent out an email on this (we did get one). Although I have mixed feelings on his doing this - I just voted 25 times for the Red Sox guy and a random guy in the other league.
John Kerry gets out a swift vote campaign for Kevin Youkilis

Nick Swisher(notes) might have used the power of his 1.2 million Twitter followers and a special hashtag to gain an early lead in the vote for the American League's final All-Star spot, but will it be enough to ward off the influence of a former presidential candidate?

Not if Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) has anything to say about it.

Namely, using his sizable email list to make sure that Boston Red Sox star Kevin Youkilis(notes) has a chance to compete with Minnesota's Justin Morneau(notes) and Detroit's Miguel Cabrera(notes) for some playing time at first base in Anaheim next week.

And it actually might be working, as it was just announced that Youk has taken the lead.

The email:

Hello ,

Hope you had a terrific Fourth of July — and I hope you'll afford me what the Senate calls a "point of personal privilege." All 3 million of you in the johnkerry.com community have done incredible work these last seven years on some of the biggest fights of our lives. This isn't one of them. But it's not small potatoes either if you're a Red Sox fan. (If you're a Yankees fan, read no further.)

Kevin Youkilis of the Red Sox is an All Star in anyone's book. He plays the game the way it's supposed to be played, he hustles, he has a great bat and a glove to match, and he brings with it the kind of intensity we respected for years in guys like Trot Nixon(notes). Youk deserves to be in the All-Star game -- while the team has grinded it out in spite of injury after injury, he's been a rock. But now he needs to win a fan vote to make it to Anaheim next week.

You can vote for him by clicking here.

The stakes are also just a little personal: in the fan voting, currently Nick Swisher of the Yankees is in first place. Swisher's having a fine year, but Youk is better in just about every category, batting average, slugging, homeruns, everything and he plays Gold Glove defense to boot. Please don't let anyone say that Swisher beat Youkilis because Sox fans have gone a little soft after '04 and '07. Let's show we're still the most ravenous fans in baseball.

Please vote Youkilis in.

Thanks,
JK

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/John-Kerry-gets-out-a-swift-vote-campaign-for-Ke?urn=mlb,253999

Here is the link to vote - the Yankee is ahead now.


http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/all_star/y2010/fv/ballot_pop.html