Rosters Announced For The 2008 E.I.S. (Everyone Is Special) Baseball All-Star Game
It’s that time again America where you pick who will misrepresent each league during the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Yankee Stadium. I honestly don’t know what is the worst part about this selection process is it the fact that any jacka** that knows nothing about baseball can vote or that the game must have an equal representation from every team (yes even the Nationals) to be displayed in front of nation wide audience on July 15th.
The game also once again has its intriguing (sarcasim) stipulation of for whatever team that wins the game will have home field throughout the World Series for their perspective league. In case you were not thrilled enough with “the best players in the world” you will be excited by the over extensive coverage of FOX as they will give you pre game epic stories about Yankee Stadium as if we did not already know many of these stories (The YES Network does that every day). I’m already anxious to see the various camera shots of fans,players and blimps in between every pitch, hell you can even bring out the damn robots from the NFL broadcasts. In closing my rant was fueled by the failed attempts baseball has had with trying to both make the game more exciting and fair. In my opinion the idea of being successful with both ideas is stupid and the league should just pick one and stand sternly by it like the other leagues do without seeming so open to change at everyone’s mood. People will change their minds every year about something just to whine about something else and if you don’t believe that Bud Selig is soft and insecure just stay tuned this august for instant replay (so much for the past time and tradition). * All Rosters as of 7/7/08 AMERICAN LEAGUE ROSTER STARTERS |
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POS | PLAYER | TEAM | ALL-STAR APPEARANCES |
C | Joe Mauer | Minnesota | 2 |
1B | Kevin Youkilis | Boston | 1 |
2B | Dustin Pedroia | Boston | 1 |
3B | Alex Rodriguez | New York | 12 |
SS | Derek Jeter | New York | 9 |
OF | Josh Hamilton | Texas | 1 |
OF | Manny Ramirez | Boston | 12 |
OF | Ichiro Suzuki | Seattle | 8 |
DH | # David Ortiz | Boston | 5 |
PITCHERS | |||
POS | PLAYER | TEAM | ALL-STAR APPEARANCES |
RHP | @Justin Duchscherer | Oakland | 2 |
RHP | Roy Halladay | Toronto | 5 |
LHP | Scott Kazmir | Tampa Bay | 2 |
LHP | Cliff Lee | Cleveland | 1 |
RHP | @Joe Nathan | Minnesota | 3 |
RHP | Jonathan Papelbon | Boston | 3 |
RHP | Mariano Rivera | New York | 9 |
RHP | Francisco Rodriguez | Los Angeles | 3 |
RHP | Ervin Santana | Los Angeles | 1 |
LHP | Joe Saunders | Los Angeles | 1 |
LHP | @George Sherrill | Baltimore | 1 |
RHP | @Joakim Soria | Kansas City | 1 |
RESERVES | |||
POS | PLAYER | TEAM | ALL-STAR APPEARANCES |
C | @Dioner Navarro | Tampa Bay | 1 |
C | Jason Varitek | Boston | 3 |
1B | Justin Morneau | Minnesota | 2 |
2B | Ian Kinsler | Texas | 1 |
SS | Michael Young | Texas | 5 |
3B | Joe Crede | Chicago | 1 |
3B | @Carlos Guillen | Detroit | 3 |
OF | J.D. Drew | Boston | 1 |
OF | Carlos Quentin | Chicago | 1 |
OF | Grady Sizemore | Cleveland | 3 |
DH | Milton Bradley | Texas | 1 |
# — won’t play due to injury (Note: Bradley replacing Ortiz as starting DH) * — named as injury replacement |
NATIONAL LEAGUE ROSTERSTARTERS | |||
POS | PLAYER | TEAM | ALL-STAR APPEARANCES |
C | Geovany Soto | Chicago | 1 |
1B | Lance Berkman | Houston | 5 |
2B | Chase Utley | Philadelphia | 3 |
3B | Chipper Jones | Atlanta | 6 |
SS | Hanley Ramirez | Florida | 1 |
OF | Ryan Braun | Milwaukee | 1 |
OF | Alfonso Soriano | Chicago | 7 |
OF | Kosuke Fukudome | Chicago | 1 |
PITCHERS | |||
POS | PLAYER | TEAM | ALL-STAR APPEARANCES |
RHP | @Aaron Cook | Colorado | 1 |
RHP | Ryan Dempster | Chicago | 2 |
RHP | @Dan Haren | Arizona | 2 |
RHP | Brad Lidge | Philadelphia | 2 |
RHP | Tim Lincecum | San Francisco | 1 |
RHP | Ben Sheets | Milwaukee | 4 |
RHP | Edinson Volquez | Cincinnati | 1 |
LHP | @Billy Wagner | New York | 6 |
RHP | Brandon Webb | Arizona | 3 |
RHP | Brian Wilson | San Francisco | 1 |
RHP | Kerry Wood | Chicago | 2 |
RHP | @Carlos Zambrano | CHC | 3 |
RESERVES | |||
POS | PLAYER | TEAM | ALL-STAR APPEARANCES |
C | Russell Martin | Los Angeles | 2 |
C | @Brian McCann | Atlanta | 3 |
1B | Adrian Gonzalez | San Diego | 1 |
1B | @Albert Pujols | St. Louis | 7 |
2B | Dan Uggla | Florida | 1 |
3B | Aramis Ramirez | Chicago | 2 |
SS | @Cristian Guzman | Washington | 2 |
SS | Miguel Tejada | Houston | 5 |
OF | Matt Holliday | Colorado | 3 |
OF | Ryan Ludwick | St. Louis | 1 |
OF | Nate McLouth | Pittsburgh | 1 |
# — won’t play due to injury * — named as injury replacement |