Support #GreenCollar baseball and vote #GreenIn13: atmlb.com/10wFdRr http://t.co/eQVvYg3Y4i—
Oakland Athletics (@Athletics) May 16, 2013
It’s great to get fans involved in voting and social media. The A’s are promoting the game by telling players to vote with certain hashtags. As you can see by the link provided in the tweets, they’re asking fans to use certain #hashtags.
And in a sense it’s a good idea, but it could have been thought out better.
They are as follows.
Video game leaks show MLB All-Star Game BP caps and jerseys: http://t.co/stopYM0Mv5—
Paul Lukas (@UniWatch) March 05, 2013
Earlier in the day, New Era confirmed in a fan forum chat that the All-Star game BP caps will be the same technology used for the Spring Training caps. Knowing that and seeing the above screenshot, we have an idea on what the All-Star Game gear will look like.
Using the theme of the Mets, the cap features the New York skyline and an the “A” and “N” to designate the leagues. It will also be a white panel cap, which is starting to gain popularity with the Orioles and several other teams using it for their BP caps.
The jerseys are the same template as the BP jerseys and the design is simple. I like it that way and I am glad that is what we’re getting.
A perfect moment in time.
As I mentioned last week, I am a huge fan of Chipper Jones and I wanted to see him in the All-Star Game. I am glad he made it and got a standing ovation. Getting a hit was icing on the cake.
Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports wrote this beautiful column about Jones’ night and his impact to the baseball world.
There’s no crying in baseball? My eyes watered reading this and flashing back to all the great memories watching Jones play ball. I think you might do the same too.
Well, of course he does. He's Jose Canseco, after all.
Unfortunately, Canseco, who turned 48 a week ago, wasn't invited to the festivities by either Matt Kemp or Robinson Cano. Surely only because he wasn't eligible to be invited, by virtue of his being out of the league for 11 years now. Still, I'd be in favor of making him a late addition to the event.
This is how you celebrate a walk-off win!
I couldn’t have asked for anything better on my birthday yesterday. I normally don’t celebrate birthdays. I usually just go to an A’s game. But since I live in Los Angeles now, I can’t do that. But with the A’s wearing those gorgeous Oakland Oaks throwbacks (which I want), I couldn’t be happier after that walk-off win.
The A’s are at .500 and are only 2.5 games out of the last Wild Card spot. I’m so excited!
But now that we’re at the All-Star Break, I am looking forward to tonight’s Home Run Derby. This is one thing that I feel that can get really boring and annoying (with Chris Berman’s “back-back-back-back”) but no matter what anyone says, home runs are always fun to watch.
So with that, here are my predictions for the derby.
Let’s get Jones one last spotlight for the national audience.
As you know, I am very critical of Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game. It’s the voting and the fact that the game affects the playoffs that really irritates me. But it’s not all that bad.
There are a lot of good things about the All-Star Game and I hope that the fans allow for one more great moment to happen with the Final Vote.
In the National League, it appears to be a two-man race between veteran Chipper Jones and rookie Bryce Harper. Both have great appeal to the national audience and either would be great selections. But the vote should go to Jones.
Jones has announced that this would be his final season in the big leagues and with a tremendous Hall of Fame career, it would appropriate for the fans to vote him in and give him a farewell. For this one selection, I don’t care if this game “counts”.
I’ve always loved how Jones has played throughout his career and he is one of the reasons why I fell in love with baseball. He deserves this.
To vote for Jones, visit MLB.com and you can vote multiple times. Deadline is Thursday at 1PM PT.
Bud Selig has made the All-Star Game worse since 2002.
Every year when the MLB All-Star Game rosters are announced, there will always be a good handful of players that the public believes were snubbed. But with the All-Star Game, these things happen when you leave the fate to the hands of the fans.
Fans are fans and many of them might not have a good grasp on reality of what constitutes as a player having a good season. This is what I don’t like about the ASG. It just takes away the opportunity for some players to make it to the game.
Maybe I’m old-school, but I don’t want to make the All-Star Game all about the fans. Especially since these games “mean something” to the playoffs, I would prefer the best of every league to be in it rather than some guy who is very popular.
Can there be a balance of intelligent player selection and allowing the fans to get involved? I think the NFL has it done right.
Photos of the All-Star game jerseys for this year’s midsummer classic have surfaced on the Internet and boy oh boy, I don’t know if dig it.
The side panels are fine but I don’t like the collar at all. It just looks so out of place. But at least the panels and collar will match the team’s pants, which is nice.
What’s really fascinating is that the jerseys will feature numerals with some very funky design. I don’t know how clear it will be when the players wear it but it screams of Nike to me.
I will give credit to the Royals for making sure that the jerseys reflect their colors well and the crown is a nice touch too. Maybe it won’t be so bad once I see them on the field. Or maybe it will be even worse. Who knows?
