It really doesn't matter whether one of baseball's tiniest markets has decided to totally rock the Internet-based All-Star vote or some brilliant miscreants have simply hacked it to monopolize the American League lineup with Kansas City Royals.
What matters is that Major League Baseball has left the integrity of the World Series to dangle in the middle of this latest ballot controversy.
Of course, fans and teams have gone to great lengths to skew the All-Star selection process in their favor for decades. And the resulting vote "scandals" have largely been dismissed as a predictable outcome of the sport's desire to build as much interest as possible in what essentially is a midseason exhibition game.