Jered Got Jobbed

Weaver’s been so-so the past week, but WHAT? Don’t tell me Weaver can’t outpitch a 42 year old all-star virgin. Screw the league! Weaver will go all Cy Young on ’em, so we can just move along.

Taken Verlander’s spot. How JV got a spot and Jered didn’t is beyond me times 5.

What the HELL is wrong with Madden?

I’m kind of glad to see that WTY didn’t make the team. In a rotation where he and Lackey have provided a majority of the punch, I want to see them get some extra rest and like you said they can bump up Weaver so Saunders can get MORE of a break. Plus maybe this gets used by him to fuel him for the rest of the season. Have him pitch the next half with a Texas sized chip on his shoulder. Only good things can come from this. Also, as much as I hate the Sux, I am glad to see Wakefield on the all star team.

it’s a good thing that Tim Wakefield and the EAST COAST BIAS were finally overcome so that one of the best pitchers in the entire league this year could finally get a much-deserved all-star spot.

Oh wait…that didn’t happen.

Fuck the east coast bias. Fuck the “old guy finally getting his due for being really mediocre for a really long time” angle. Fuck the Sox Nation jubilation. Fuck the “it’s nice to see him there” crap.

If you want to be on the team, you earn it through performance. If Wakefield wanted to finally be on the team, it shouldn’t be enough to be really mediocre for years and years…how about you earn it like guys like Weaver do by actually PERFORMING.

Goddamn, this infuriates me. It’s one thing to get hosed by a bunch of chowdhead Bostonian retards. It’s another for a coach to overlook a MASSIVE statistical differential to give props to his own division.

… is the equivalent of pity sex. Except that the Angel’s fans [and Weaver] were the ones who got screwed.

There were a number of weird selections. Ted Lilly? WTF!

How dare you Joe Maddon…I thought we were friends.

   WHY IS MADDEN SUCKING UP TO THE F-ING SUX!!!!?
Only 2 Starters, so they picked 4 more, the most from any team
    All together now, to the folks that made the choice: FUCK YOU!!!! I HATE THE FUCKING RED SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Jeez, you’d think Madden would a given a little love to the team that enabled him to become a manager. Especially when as has been described, regardless of his last few craptastic starts, Weaver is still top 10. But even if Weaver didn’t make the team, why so much sucking up Joe

   P.S, My Cat Tiger Lilly, says T. Lilly was a great choice. I agree.

I’m not sure how he could have made it over Aardsma? Weaver deserved it much more than Fuentes did as well. Seems like Maddon went to MLB.com, stats, and sorted by saves leaders, and chose the top 4. Pretty damn bogus the Sox have 6 there also.

IMO his weirdest pick is Ben Zobrist as the super-utility guy. OK Zobrist is having a good year, taking over 2B from Aki Iwamura, but not All-Star quality. And the guy is a .241 career hitter.

Our Desmond, on the other hand, does it year after year and Maddon above all should know that. At least Maddon threw Figgy a bone by including him in the Final Vote 5 but there will be stiff competition there from all those stupid Texans who have nothing better to do but click Ian Kinsler’s name a million times.

And I really can’t understand Verlander or Beckett over Weaver. But … it’s just a Suxahibition game.

I was extremely stunned that those 3 pitchers were picked over several good pitchers including weaver. I know they have the name and all but this is about performance. You don’t have to be flashy or on a east coast team to be a good quality pitcher. Hell just imagine how us Ranger fans feel cause Millwood has been not only a good pitcher this year and deserved to go but also a mentor to our staff. The whole all star thing pisses me off to no end. Hell as much as I love the way Hamilton plays and I am a big texas fan, he should have not accepted to go. I know he would hav gotten backlash from MLB and fans cause they voted him in but hell he hasnt performed this year due to injury. It robs us of seeing the people performing and yes their names may not stand out but they are good players. Ok im done bitching lol.

I don’t know that it’s all Maddon here. Don’t the players decide the majority of the pitchers and reserves, and then Maddon fills in a few leftover spots?

like Welch said, Wakefield can pitch 10 innings of an all-star game. Good idea, if you can’t have a tie ballgame, for a manager to have a guy like Wakefield on his side to win.

I think it’s gotta hurt for Millwood a little more, I mean when you think Angels you think good pitching but when have you ever considered a Ranger for All Star status?

is reading dickhead Sox fans try to justify the pick with crap about how he’s “an ambassador” and “a great guy.”

Yeah, well…if fuckin’ Gandhi threw up a 5.70ERA, it doesn’t make him a great pitcher. Too bad. GTFO my all-star team, old man mediocre.

This year, more than recent years, I do think the Angels need to be careful to protect our players. Fuentes is a better pick than Weaver for us in that, being a closer who is used to pitching 1 inning, multiple games in a row, his routine won’t get thrown off by throwing in the all-star game. Who knows what might happen with WTY, and if we lose him, I’m not sure we can pull it off this season.

Hunter, on the other hand, has proven that he can pretty much take a bullet to the spine, and still be in the game the next day. Fingers crossed, he should be fine as long as he doesn’t run through any walls or get beaned.

But its happened to our guys so often for so many years, I’m not even surprised anymore

Red Sox vs. the NL. I would really like to see Figgy go though …. vote like the wind, maybe our informal vote-swapping deal with the AZ Snakepit will help out!

or one of the players’ picks?

No matter how revisionist all this “we love Tim” crap is, my indelible memory was at game 7, 2003 ALCS when I watched Wakefield throw one of his goofy knuckleballs to Aaron F’ing Boone to end Red Sox hopes for that season. I was immensely happy (and I’m not usually happy when Yankees win).