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Does Josh Hamilton deserve to be an All-Star?


Does Josh Hamilton Deserve to be an All-Star?

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No offense to Josh, he's a great player and has an amazing story but he's been injured since May. According to ESPN.com, these are his 2009 Season Stats:

SPLITS G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS

Season35 125 20 30 5 2 6 24        3 0 240 .290  .456 .746

Those numbers are not good enough to start in an All Star Game. Maybe if he continued to bat like that he could only be a reserve. And right now, he doesn't deserve to be an All Star.

 He is set to be back in the Rangers lineup tonight against the Angels. Unless he goes crazy and hits 10 homeruns before the break, he wont deserve that All Star spot.

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Does Josh Hamilton Deserve to be an All-Star?
Yes
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No
82 votes

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Ok, who voted Yes?

Come on, Josh, admit it was you!

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Jul 6, 2009 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions  

He paid Chris Davis to stuff the yes box

Now that he got demoted he needs all the money he can get, (going to invest in batting lessons).

PREPAREDNESS_Because those goddamn zombies aren’t going to kill themselves

by adragon on Jul 8, 2009 12:18 PM EDT up reply actions  

Um

No

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by CB30 on Jul 6, 2009 1:21 PM EDT reply actions  

With those numbers NEVER

but hes a good player. I wonder if people would be complaining if Pujols would be an allstar if he was batting .315 with 10 HR. Just not his norm

No one goes there anymore, it's too crowded. - Yogi Berra

by trademan56 on Jul 6, 2009 1:48 PM EDT reply actions  

Uh

No. No. No.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Jul 6, 2009 2:03 PM EDT reply actions  

He's one of the best players in baseball.

Not his fault he got injured – if the fans want him there, he deserves it.

Side note – why did the author of this post use the Sox’ blog’s name as his?

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by bdalebs on Jul 6, 2009 3:32 PM EDT reply actions  

i disagree. it is his fault that he got injured.

What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.

by winchester5 on Jul 8, 2009 9:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

Ummm...

Explain please?

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by bdalebs on Jul 9, 2009 1:11 AM EDT up reply actions  

that was supposed to be sarcasm...

sorry I suck at jokes

What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.

by winchester5 on Jul 20, 2009 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

Ah.

I thought you had some info about him taking hacks at his midsection or something.

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by bdalebs on Jul 20, 2009 5:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

But he kicked heroin!

That’s worth at least 40 homeruns a season.

/sarcasm

by Eric Simon on Jul 6, 2009 4:54 PM EDT reply actions  

Where's that from?

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by bdalebs on Jul 6, 2009 11:24 PM EDT up reply actions  

the old noggin

but I’m sure I’m not the first to point this out, haha.

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Jul 7, 2009 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

Eh.

It’s a dangerous way to teach kids through role models. As long as they know that the lesson is that when coming back from a extreme hardship, and not that doing drugs is okay if you can stop using, they should be fine.

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by bdalebs on Jul 7, 2009 2:21 PM EDT up reply actions  

Squid i have ALWAYS thought this way. Thanks for saying it! lol

What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.

by winchester5 on Jul 8, 2009 9:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

Rec'd

That’s what I’ve said every time someone talks about his “great story.”

"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."

by Evan_S on Jul 12, 2009 3:05 AM EDT up reply actions  

This is what you get when you let fans pick the starters.

One time, a loooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnngggggggggg time ago, the Cincinnati fans voted something like 7 players to the starting lineup. Fans vote for past deeds more than current seasons.

Now don’t get me wrong. I really like Josh Hamilton but he is not having an all-star caliber season.

"I've had pretty good success with Stan Musial by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third." - Carl Erskine

by pedalpusher on Jul 7, 2009 12:39 AM EDT reply actions  

... past deeds...

I’m all for accounting for past deeds and all. The voters should certainly take into effect the previous season because voting for the guy with the best April & May is a bit silly… especially considering how early in the season the voting starts. That said, Hamilton doesn’t exactly have a long established history of greatness. I’d understand if A-Rod or Pujols won the fan vote while getting off to a sluggish start, but Hamilton only has one full season under his belt. I’m scratching my head as to how he’s gotten so popular.

But if fans couldn’t find three other AL outfielders to vote for ahead of him, then I guess he gets to start. Fans get the All-Stars they want. shrug

by DavidRF on Jul 7, 2009 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions  

Scratching your head? Really?

He got voted in because of his HR Derby show last year.

If you were thinking, you wouldn't have thought that.

http://sonsofsamhorn.net/index.php?showforum=129

by Warden11 on Jul 9, 2009 1:26 AM EDT up reply actions  

my name

i put that name before i discovered the red sox blog

by overthemonster on Jul 7, 2009 10:16 AM EDT reply actions  

Ah.

Just wondering. Hope you’ll visit us.

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by bdalebs on Jul 7, 2009 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions  

Hell no

There are only two players I have a problem with, (three if Pena gets voted on) they are Josh and Ryan Howard. Both are having down years and should not be in the all-star game. Josh got voted in so I can’t really complain about him but there is no excuse for Howard being an all-star when much more deserving players, (P. Sandoval, M. Reynolds, M. Kemp).

PREPAREDNESS_Because those goddamn zombies aren’t going to kill themselves

by adragon on Jul 8, 2009 12:29 PM EDT reply actions  

Howard has a crap load of h\omers at least....

What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.

by winchester5 on Jul 8, 2009 9:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

Which means no where near as much as you probably think.

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by bdalebs on Jul 9, 2009 1:12 AM EDT up reply actions  

i think he has like 20. Thats not a bad number....

What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.

by winchester5 on Jul 20, 2009 12:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

Meh.

But, overall, the homers make his mediocre season look better.

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by bdalebs on Jul 20, 2009 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions  

This is most definitely nothing more than a popularity contest

Skill and being deserving of the ASG are secondary. Josh Hamilton’s story is impressive. His HR Derby last year was remarkable ( but let’s not forget, he didn’t win ). The Rangers are in first place. If the vote was based on kicking a drug addiction, well, he and quite a few other players would be deserving. But this is supposed to be about on the field performance, not feel good stories narrated by Bob Costas or Bryant Gumbel. He has been gone for almost the entire first half. This is just more proof, give the fans the vote, they’ll vote in the pretty-boys and newest flavors of the month.

YOU DON'T KNOW THE POWER OF THE DARKSIDE.....

by halofolife on Jul 12, 2009 2:05 AM EDT reply actions  

Varitek in '08

made the All-Star team despite hitting .216 which was the worst BA ever in the history of the All-Star game.

Every year there are atrocities like this committed and it never gets resolved so why not just accept it? The whining is getting repetitive.

"Stupid sexy Flanders!!!"

- Homer Simpson

by Rangerchick on Jul 13, 2009 7:40 AM EDT reply actions  

Between the ratification of the Constitution and the Emancipation Proclamation

there were a lot of atrocities regarding slavery and nothing was getting resolved.

"Look at me! I'm Tomokazu Ohka of the Montreal Expos!"

by jessef on Jul 13, 2009 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions  

Intangibles?

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by bdalebs on Jul 13, 2009 3:07 PM EDT up reply actions  

loololololol

What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.

by winchester5 on Jul 20, 2009 12:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

Varitek last year was voted in by the players

Who (and this is my opinion) they voted him in to block that douchebag A.J. Pierzynski.

This team is our extended family, That's why we love them no matter what the record, no matter what the score.

by halofan4life on Jul 21, 2009 1:15 PM EDT up reply actions  

Hell, Rollins was almost voted in this year

Hearing arguments about why that would be a good idea made for a good afternoon.

by ryebr3ad on Jul 16, 2009 12:18 AM EDT reply actions  

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