Sheffield and Young Should be in San Francisco
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by user Pat Dean
All Star games are about entertainment and allow fans to vote on the players who can best bestow them with this satisfaction. Sometimes these selections come at a price to pay, resulting in deserving players being left out of a reward. With Americas favorite past time’s version of its stars amongst stars event next week at AT&T Park, a few rebuttals must be presented. For starters, how can an American League All Star Team be assembled with Tigers’ slugger Gary Sheffield absent from the roster? Looking in this bird’s eye point of view, I’M 110% certain that no General Manage or Owner would say that Grady Sizemore, Alex Rios, or Carl Crawford is a more superior player than Sheffield. And if you tend to in the minority of fans who do not comprehend this, I must inform you quickly that facts don’t adorn results. For example, Sheff’s batting average of .290 ranks higher than any of the above mentioned players and if that’s not enough for you than ask yourself if any of those names have more homers than the 18 Sheff has blasted this season. The other snub that discomposes me gratefully comes from the National League. How can a pitcher who has not given up a homerun in his last 69 2/3 innings of work be defrauded of A TRIP TO San Francisco? The fella I speak of is the Padres strong arm, Chris Young. Young has an ERA of 2.14 to go along with a solid 8-3 record that could easily be at least 11-0 if the Padres’ deplorable team batting average of .222 improved. Somehow the National League felt better equipped to have six closers for a game they have not won since Ozzie Smith was still playing. At the end of the day the fans and Major League Baseball selected the appropriate representatives for the most part, however the snubbing of Sheffield and Young leaves me with a malodorous.
