While the good people of Cleveland may not realize there's a group of adult men playing baseball for a living down on E. 9th St., it sounds like a lot of the rest of the baseball world appreciates the work that CC Sabathia, G-Size and Victor Martinez are putting in so far. Those 3 guys will sport Chief Wahoo in San Fran for the All-Star Game next week, and we're excited to see them play 2/3 of an inning each.We'd expected CC to go, and probably start given he's the only 12-game winner in the bigs; we're not surprised to see Victor on the squad, since he's the best offensive catcher in baseball; but we're a little surprised that G-Size was voted on, we guess it's a testament to how widely respected his game is.
Barry Bonds is going to start, too, after pulling a miracle comeback to win the fan vote in the last 3 days the polls were open. There's no question the Giants engaged in some untoward activity to get him on the field (and keep the commish from dealing with the issue), but we thought Barry should be on the team, even though he is the anti-Christ.
Anyway, if you're reading this and you live in Cleveland...feel free to go down to Jacobs Field and check out an Indians game.
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A guy called into KNBR 680 AM on Monday afternoon and described how he and 40 of his friends rigged the online voting at MLB.com in favor of Bonds. He said they exploited the system and were able to cast about 600,000 votes for Bonds in the final couple of days. Can't say whether it's 100 percent true, but the guy sounded very, very believable.
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