Re: [情報] AL All-star voting update
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原文恕刪.
這是 FOX Sports 一週前關於 ASG 的專欄. 當時 Altuve 還是明星先發二壘.
原文網址: http://goo.gl/g5oH77
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'No shenanigans,' but Royals fans are overlooking a few good All-Stars
Ken Rosenthal
FOX Sports
It's 1957 all over again, and the glorious stench of foul play is in the air.
Everything is up to date in Kansas City, all right. Maybe a little too up to
date, based on the fact that the Royals lead the American League All-Star
balloting at seven of nine positions.
This is not about stuffing the ballot box, the way Cincinnati fans did in
’57 to “elect” – heh-heh – seven Reds to the NL team.
No, this is about a potential hacking of the electronic ballot box in the
first year of exclusive online voting. And frankly, the threat to America
here is bigger than the Kardashians, bigger than even the FIFA scandal.
(Attention, Royals fans: By now, most of you probably can tell that I am
writing this tongue-in-cheek. For those of you spoiling for a fight, and I
don’t mean Yordano Ventura, imagine if it were seven Yankees or seven
Red Sox leading the balloting. You’d be screaming for a government
investigation of both MLB and my humble employers at FOX, not to mention
the confiscation of every laptop in the eastern time zone.
(Oh, and another thing: Worthy All-Stars in both leagues could get shafted
if the entire state of Missouri continues its clicking crusade;
Cardinals lead the NL voting at four positions due to the efforts of
St. Louis’ self-proclaimed Best Fans in Baseball. I’ll get to
the potential snubs in a moment. But for now,
back to saving the ASG from Omar Infante.)
Good citizen and fair-minded journalist that I am, I demanded an
investigation Wednesday in a conversation with a top MLB official, knowing
that three updates remain before the actual winners are announced.
Yes, the Royals are the defending AL champions, the first-place team in the
AL Central, etc., etc. But I suspect that the spawn of one of those manic
number-crunching Royals fans – I’m looking at you, Rany Jazayerli! –
is responsible for the craziness on the AL ballot.
Alas, that MLB official – Bob Bowman, president for business and media –
assured me there were no irregularities, no improprieties, no impish
teenagers in the KC metropolitan area creating phony e-mail addresses and
voting up to 35 times for every Royal but Amos Otis.
“No,” Bowman said sternly. “We check on it. We look for programs. We look
at IP addresses. We do all that. I would say over the last 12 to 15 years
we’ve seen isolated instances (of tampering), more in the Final Man vote
than in the All-Star vote. But if we see efforts like that,
we always disallow it.”
So, no matter how these elections turn out, commissioner Rob Manfred is not
about to turn into Ford Frick, appoint non-Royals as starters and take away
the fan vote.
Frick, according to Wikipedia, discovered that half the ballots in ’57 came
from Cincinnati and that the Cincinnati Enquirer had printed pre-marked
ballots and distributed them inside their Sunday editions.
Oh, for the days when newspapers had such power!
Frick appointed Willie Mays and Hank Aaron to replace the Reds’ Gus Bell and
Wally Post; Stan Musial had been the only non-Reds starter. The fans,
meanwhile, did not regain the vote until 1970.
The issues are just slightly different now, in the first year of all-digital
balloting.
“The vote totals are twice as high as last year,” Bowman said. “We have 50
percent more people voting 50 percent more often, so it’s almost 100 percent
in terms of vote totals. That, more than Kansas City or even St. Louis, is
what has caught our eye. We’ve been scrubbing it every day and haven’t seen
anything irregular.”
Bowman was referring to the voting procedures, not the actual votes
themselves.
No less an authority than Tigers left-hander David Price tweeted on
Wednesday: “MLB please do something about the Allstate voting (Yes,
auto-correct nailed even Price). Not that it’s funny but it’s kind of a
joke. #VOTEMIGGY.”
Price added in another tweet, “An All-Star Game IS NOT a popularity contest
. . . It’s for home-field advantage for whatever reason) for the World
Series!! Best players play.”
No, not true, David. The ASG is a classic hodgepodge of mixed messages. The
fan vote is, in essence, a popularity contest. And if the game truly was for
the best players, baseball would change the rule requiring that every team be
represented.
But let’s go over some of the most glaring atrocities, starting with the one
rankling Price most:
* AL first base. The Royals’ Eric Hosmer leads Miguel Cabrera by more than
500,000 votes. Hosmer is a fine player. But Cabrera ranks first in the AL in
OPS, Hosmer 13th.
* AL second base. The Astros’ Jose Altuve is the leader despite his .540 OPS
since May 10. Infante, who has the second-lowest OPS in the entire AL, is 1.5
million votes ahead of the Indians’ Jason Kipnis, who is the major-league
leader at second base in that statistic. To top it all off, Infante actually
is gaining on Altuve!
* AL third base. The Royals’ Mike Moustakas is a very good player enjoying a
terrific season. The Blue Jays’ Josh Donaldson is an even better player
enjoying an even better season. Moustakas leads Donaldson by 1.7 million
votes.
* AL designated hitter. The Mariners’ Nelson Cruz leads the AL with 18
homers – and trails the Royals’ Kendrys Morales by 141,513 votes.
* AL catcher. Can’t quibble too much; Salvador Perez arguably is the
Royals’ most important player. Still, the Athletics’ Stephen Vogt has
superior offensive numbers to Perez yet only half the votes.
* AL outfield. The Royals’ Lorenzo Cain is the top vote-getter, more than
500,000 ahead of the Angels’ Mike Trout. No big deal – Trout still would be
a starter – but can someone please explain how KC’s Alex Rios is fourth,
more than 300,000 votes ahead of the Orioles’ Adam Jones, when he has
appeared in only 15 games all season?
* NL second base. The Marlins’ Dee Gordon leads the majors with 88 hits,
ranks second with 20 stolen bases and fifth with 10 defensive runs saved.
Yet, Gordon is only 113,058 votes ahead of the Cardinals’ Kolten Wong.
* NL outfield. The Nationals’ Bryce Harper, Cardinals’ Matt Holliday and
Marlins’ Giancarlo Stanton are the three leading vote-getters, which is at
it should be. But I don’t want to live in a world in which the Giants’ Nori
Aoki – a former Royal, of course – is only 46,902 votes behind Stanton.
“I would say this about Kansas City,” Bowman said. “If you watch a game or
go out there, they have been pushing it hard from Day 1. During their TV
broadcasts, during their radio broadcasts, they’ve got everyone in their
infrastructure pushing Kansas City players.”
The Royals’ local TV ratings on FOX Sports Kansas City are the highest in
baseball, though the size of the market means the actual number of viewers
ranks lower.
“It’s early,” Bowman said. “Nobody’s assuming this is the way it’s
going to end. But it’s kind of exciting. You can make an argument for a lot
of those players, maybe you can make an argument for somebody else who
deserves to be there. But a lot of those players obviously deserve to be
where they are.
“That’s what it’s supposed to be. It’s supposed to be about fans getting
involved, getting behind it. There are no shenanigans going on, just the
involvement and energy of the Kansas City fans. Not just in Kansas City, but
nationwide. They kind of charmed the nation last year. They didn’t win, but
they kind of got the A-plus in the charm and modeling category.”
Bowman’s analogy is appropriate, seeing as how the All-Star balloting is one
big beauty pageant.
Keep it up, KC. You look absolutely lovely. Just never complain about
big-market influence again!
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所以呢?
Bowman 表示, 沒有不合規則的灌票, 沒有系統被駭的問題;
AL 先發名單就是 KC 迷很努力投票的成果啊.
而且皇家隊似乎贏得了全美的好感, 看起來大家都來幫忙投哩.
那麼還是老話一句:
想這麼投的可以這麼投, 沒人禁止;
而既然別人無法否決你們投出來的先發名單, 讓人討論一下都不行嗎?
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