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All-Star follies come with selections

By Keith Law
Scouts Inc.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

The All-Star Game is a wonderful opportunity for fans, players and managers alike to showcase their own prejudices and ignorance about the best players in the game. Fans vote for names they know, regardless of whether those names are actually good enough to belong in the game. Players follow a pretty similar pattern. Managers prefer more subtle forms of ridiculous selections, from carrying a half-dozen closers to stuffing the roster with undeserving players from their own teams to picking playe ...

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