1. Those Who Were Hosed, and Those Who Should Be Rewarded
All of those descriptions were hurled in recent weeks, and that was just at poor Omar Infante.
As for the rest of the All-Star voting, while Kansas City fans voted early, often and, God bless 'em, with their Royal blue hearts, you've gotta admit, it mostly went fairly well. Today's fans, armed with far more information than I ever dreamed of as a young fan in the 1970s in Michigan listening to Ernie Harwell and gazing out in wonder at the Great Lakes (usually Erie), are smarter than ever.