For the non-color-blind among you, here is this morning’s update of how votes break down geographically for the final spot on the National League All-Star Team.
Yasiel Puig is in second place behind Atlanta’s Freddie Freeman with fewer than 24 hours of voting left. Canadians and Southern Californians love Puig!
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underdog
I get the feeling people are a little biased towards the players on their resident team–call me crazy but I’m picking up that vibe.
Also getting the feeling that Braves fans are particularly prickly about this. See poor Dustin Nosler (@Feelinkindablue on Twitter) and his experience after doing a clearly labeled opinion piece on his Yahoo blog (look at his twitter feed today for instance). People care too much.
That said, if fans think that it will be more exciting for viewers to have Freddie Freeman come off the bench than Yasiel Puig, more power to their delusional selves.
Jeffrey Thomas III
Outside of seeing Kershaw pitch a couple innings, the prospect of Puig coming off the bench is the only reason I’ll watch the game.
Anonymous
The twitter brings out the worst in people. Or the comments on any yahoo blog.
KT
Dodgers lineup:
Crawford LF
Puig RF
Gonzalez 1B
Ramirez SS
Ethier CF
Ellis C
Schumaker 2B
Hairston 3B
Nolasco P
thegmac99
*100% of total voting precincts in Fulton County reporting.
**Polls still open in Little Havana, Southern California and in all other places where people want to see excitement in a stale all-star game.
Anonymous
I probably won’t bother with the ASG, which hasn’t been worth watching since the farce of interleague play began.
Anonymous
That vote for Freeman shows that The Solid South still lives on. But the state of Texas is really all over the place. Puig is carrying Dallas-Fort Worth and El Paso and Pence is carrying Houston. I can’t eyeball San Antonio on that map though. Stupid Texas and its hundreds of counties.
Adrian Gonzalez must have not left a good impression in Boston because Puig is winning in Massachusetts. But Gonzalez is leading in the extreme northern part of Maine. Where hardly anybody lives except lumberjacks and potato farmers.
Jon Weisman
If you can click on that original link, you can scroll your cursor to get a county-by-county vote count.
Anonymous
Bexar County Texas leans slightly to Freeman. But the experts won’t call it. I will ask John King to look at the results further on his magic board.
Anonymous
Stupid Texas and its hundreds of counties.
Rule 5 violation?
Anonymous
It would interesting to see according to the distribution of wet and dry counties.
Anonymous
Stupid Minnesota and its hundreds of counties too!
foul tip
At risk of Rule 5, the Solid South is not known for electoral enlightenment, except in a few places. Also, many folks here would vote for the Braves’ mascot if he were on the ballot.
Anonymous
Do they still refer to the battle in the NL West as “the other race?”
Anonymous
I also like how California is divided between Puig and Pence almost exactly along the lines of where Giants and Dodgers fans live. Puig’s support stops along the coast with San Luis Obispo County and then goes up to Lake Tahoe along the Sierra Nevada.
However, Modoc County is voting for Freeman!
Anonymous
Are we to assume that Alaska is a hot bed of the Free Freddy movement?
Anonymous
What’s up with the AL final five? All middle relievers, including two I’ve never heard of.
Anonymous
They should really just cancel that one.
Anonymous
We need a prediction by Nate Silver.
KT
Eric Stephen @truebluela 4m
Brett Butler hit .515 (34-for-66) in a 19-game hitting streak for Dodgers in 1992. Hanley Ramirez is at .486 (36-for-74) in his 19-gamer
Anonymous
Where did this “Titan” nickname come from? Does Jaime Jarrin call him that on the Spanish-language broadcast (I hope), or did the marketing department cook this up (more likely)?
Anonymous
I can picture Gonzalez saying “Release the Puig!”
KT
He went to Eastlake High school around the corner from my house…Their nickname is the Titans…My daughter will be going there in 3 years…It’s also in his twitter handle
Anonymous
That’s the kind of insight I expect here! And the kind of backstory I like. Thanks KT!
KT
@AdrianTitan23
Bruce Brooks
Butler County OH: Puig-46.6% Freeman-26.1% Gonzalez-10.9%
Lot’s of Dodger faithful in the place Walter Alston called home.
KT
Blake Williams @BlakeW38 8m
@Dodgers #votePuig! pic.twitter.com/9TAhoiHNUO
Anonymous
This is a fantastic visual aid. But I still worry that if Puig goes to the AS game, he will get hurt trying to run straight up, or through, a wall or something.
Anonymous
I believe it was a Fox game where they said that Toronto and Atlanta were teaming up in their efforts to elect their players.
Anonymous
Just my two cents….
…..
If Yassy doesn’t make it to the All Star Game, Kasten, et. al. should get some “computer hackers” to hijack the jumbo-tron in New York … They should show a montage of his highlights over and over…
…..
You know, ‘ala – Cal Tech’ at the Rose Bowl. :-)
Anonymous
Yassy?
Anonymous
Yasiel = “Yassy” (kinda like Rafael = “Raffy”)
If I was in the Dodger clubhouse, that’s what I’d call him.
Well, except ‘Sir’… that is. :-)
Anonymous
One more idea….
….
How about getting whoever scouted Puig to go out and recruit one of local well-built blondes to wear a Puig t-shirt and rush the mound during the All Star Game ???
….
You know, just like that lady, Morganna, used to do….
….
I can see her now, with “PUIG” ** stretched** across the front of her shirt. :-)
We can have her go out and kiss Sergio Romo…
Anonymous
I say this about the guy who scouted Puig as it’s obvious that this guy knows ‘talent’ when he sees it. :-)
Anonymous
If it were Morganna, you would only be able to read the U and the I.
Anonymous
In any case, the letters would now be in the strike zone.
Anonymous
The color that is the same as the great lakes is for counties where there is are no votes at all
It looks like Freeman is getting over 95% of all votes in GA
jim hitchcock
Canuck Dodger has obviously voted tens of thousands of times.
Linkmeister
My fellow Hawai’i residents are voting strangely. Kauai and the Big Island are Freeman territory; I wonder why. Oahu, Maui, Lanai and Molokai are all for Puig.
Anonymous
Kalua Puig, of course.
Linkmeister
Oh, man. Awful, simply awful.
And there is a Kailua-Kona on the Big Island.
Anonymous
Kailua Puig has too many eyes. But maybe the eye is the most delicious part?
Linkmeister
Once again I’m reliant on you folks and Gameday, as Prime Ticket is not showing tonight’s game. Grumble, mutter, snarl.
KT
Yea I’m stuck with the AZ feed tonight along with Charlie and Rick
foul tip
John from Aus no doubt will approve of this, from dodgers.com. Good info.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130709&content_id=53205710&vkey=news_la&c_id=la
KT
Let’s go CC
KT
PUIG!
Jon Weisman
Carl Crawford apparently shows you can take Luis Cruz from the Dodgers, but you can’t take Luis Cruz out of the Dodgers.
KT
AZ feed was showing Puig’s 4 strike at bat and then he lined the single to LF
KT
Hanley…way to get on
KT
Let’s go Dre
Jon Weisman
I don’t know nothin’ from nothin’, but I don’t think Kennedy was trying to hit Hanley. But we’ll see what happens next.
KT
I agree but it was high so who knows
KT
Mike Petriello @mike_petriello 2m
I bet Ricky Nolasco is going to be the best hitting Dodger to wear #47 this year
KT
Good inning Ricky!!
KT
Bill Plunkett @billplunkettocr 3m
Going into tonight, #Dodgers lead MLB in avg (.320), slugging (.530) and OPS (.891) for July. 3rd in runs scored (45) but in 1 fewer game
KT
Nice AJ
KT
Shoe!
Linkmeister
Pitcher’s best friend. Rats.
KT
RICKY!!!
Linkmeister
Since when do we have two or three pitchers who can actually hit? Wow!
Anonymous
Or four!
Jon Weisman
Lefty Tyler Skaggs scheduled to start Wednesday. We might see Scott Van Slyke in LF.
Jon Weisman
Twenty singles in 11 innings for Dodgers in Arizona.
Jon Weisman
Crawford had a 1.000 OBP in June and has a .053 OBP in July. Baseball is funny!
KT
Another Nice inning Ricky
Jeffrey Thomas III
Those breaking balls are looking filthy.
KT
Dylan Hernandez @dylanohernandez 31s
Matt Kemp underwent a MRI exam and received a PRP injection; still expected back on July 21. http://lat.ms/12gpKHf
KT
my 3 year old son is showing me how to play games on my wife’s smart phone…I wonder if she knows he has it?
KT
losing vinny now…damn hate KCAL nights
Jeffrey Thomas III
Bummer.
KT
Dre!
Jeffrey Thomas III
Nice hustle Dre.
KT
Shoe!!
KT
RICKY!!
Jon Weisman
He really roped that ball.
KT
YES CC!
Jon Weisman
Puig’s sixth walk of the season loads the bases.
Anonymous
Break it open!
KT
GONZO!!
Anonymous
Agon again!!!!!
KT
Stienered
Jon Weisman
It looked like a homer off the bat to me.
Jon Weisman
If there had been a banana peel on the warning track, the Dodgers couldn’t have asked for a luckier break from Eaton.
Jon Weisman
The third baseman could have tagged out Gonzalez if he had just looked. Instead, Ethier is safe.
Jon Weisman
Sounds like Ted Lilly has basically given up on being a starting pitcher.
Gurnick: “Lilly hasn’t made a relief appearance since 2003, but he’s now 37 and concedes that he can’t manage a chronic neck problem with a starter’s workload.”
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130709&content_id=53221706¬ebook_id=53237852&vkey=notebook_la&c_id=la
KT
DP time
Jeffrey Thomas III
Looks like I missed some good stuff while getting dinner.
KT
all kinds of exciting terrible defense and running
Jeffrey Thomas III
Sounds like a Dodger game.
Anonymous
Except the terrible defense WASN’T the Dodgers!
KT
There’s my DP
Jon Weisman
When things are going well, things are going well …
Anonymous
We’ve sure know the opposite is true as “well.”
KT
Shoe!
KT
hitting is contagious…spread it around
Jeffrey Thomas III
Just watched that epic error from Eaton followed by the Puig/Montero collision. Can’t control the wild horse it seems.
KT
Did the bunt wake up CC?
Jon Weisman
Long foul from Crawford.
KT
Nice eye CC
Jeffrey Thomas III
You see that Yasiel death stare after the pitch up and in??
Jon Weisman
Yeah.
Jeffrey Thomas III
Yasiel no le gusta.
Jon Weisman
Two-Walk Chuck.
KT
Good eye Yasiel
KT
GONZO!!…hitting is contagious!!
Jon Weisman
Most amazing part of that play was Puig stopping at second base.
KT
that’s the most emotion I’ve ever seen from gonzo
Jeffrey Thomas III
That was almost an amazing catch.
KT
he was pissed he didn’t make it
KT
Kubel LOL standing at the altar
KT
Standing O Ricky!!
Jeffrey Thomas III
Great start, we’ll take more of that.
KT
Kevin Kennedy @KevinKennedyMLB 3m
Dbacks playing pretty poor baseball right now Dodgers taking advantage and playing like a first place team they soon will be!
Anonymous
Someone doesn’t have a something, yet. One more chance.
KT
Almost JP
Jeffrey Thomas III
Well there goes the streak… oh well. Let’s just wrap up the W.
Anonymous
Start another!
KT
bases loaded 1 out for mets up 5-4
Jeffrey Thomas III
Padres beating Rox too.
KT
Chad Moriyama @ChadMoriyama 15s
[GIF] Yasiel Puig’s almost catch and reaction: http://i.minus.com/ibzdzHnFFlCpO9.gif …
Anonymous
Beli angry he hit him.
KT
Ball Game!!!!
1 game below .500
2.5 games back
Sweep tomorrow!!!
Jeffrey Thomas III
This has been fun, let’s keep it going tomorrow!
Anonymous
Good game!
Anonymous
Mets and Giants, tied again.
Jeffrey Thomas III
Let ’em go 15 again. As long as the giants lose.
KT
Dodgers 14-3 since Puig signed my jersey!!
Jeffrey Thomas III
In that Padres/Rox game old friend Eric Stults pitched a complete game, giving up just one run in the ninth.
KT
Great Game night all….remember sweep tomorrow
KT
http://imgur.com/OwQD6ry
Anonymous
Paco makes this 25-man NL ASG roster (along with Clayton, Hanley, Puig and Jansen)!
http://mlb.si.com/2013/07/09/25-man-all-star-game-roster-national-league/?sct=uk_t11_a4
Anonymous
Nice to see this in the standings
Cubs 40-48
Giants 40-49
Anonymous
Even better to see Dodgers 44-45.
I don’t want to count chickens before they’re running around, but after April and May, I thought we’d never see .500 from this bunch.
Anonymous
Its almost a different bunch.
Anonymous
Braun going the Lance Armstrong route : http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ryan-braun%E2%80%99s-hiding-from-the-truth-will-come-back-to-bite-him-030754399.html
Anonymous
That is a hit piece since it never mentions Braun’s statement that his only connection with Biogenesis is that his lawyers got expert advice from Tony Bosch, Biogenesis’ owner, about the treatment of Braun’s specimen during 2011-a statement that I happened to read so many days ago that I cannot begin to tell you when it was.
Anonymous
Another day, another game I’m looking forward to watching. What a turnaround from a month ago! There we were, and here we are, through thin and thick. Go Ryu!
Anonymous
Totally agree.
This is more than just the Manny Effect. It was getting Puig, then Hanley coming back, on fire . . . it was Agon being fairly consistent all year (and an All Star in my mind) but suddenly surrounded by consistency.
Anonymous
And it was you changing your screen name, RBI!
Anonymous
Ha! Love me my magical thinking!
foul tip
If accurate, this is far from good.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/-daily-jolt/news/20130710/daily-jolt-yusiel-puig-aaron-hernandez/?sct=hp_t2_a3&eref=sihp
If true, best spin I can put on it is that Puig’s young, first time through the league, and caught up in the Dodgers v ‘Backs bad blood from last time. But still….
Anonymous
As you say, I could understand him to be shy of fraternizing with the opposition in an unfamiliar environment.
Anonymous
Maybe Ethier and/or Kemp told Puig that Gonzalez and Pierre took playing time away from them when they were young
Anonymous
Good for McGwire putting Puig in his place – Puig better listen up to the likes of Lopes, McGwire, Mattingly, etc. and start showing more respect for past greats of the game.
West Coast Ram
The idea that anyone would want to see Hunter Pence in the all-star game just baffles me and is a strong argument to take the fan’s vote away.
john galt
There’s something about him that turns me off, way off, and that goes all the way back to his appearance in Houston. I don’t know why, he just repels me.
Jeffrey Thomas III
Giants already trail 3-0 after one, Matt Cain pulled after getting just two outs.
underdog
They could end up losing to the top prospect they traded away as their Week They Hit Bottom continues unabated.
{plays world’s smallest violin}
KT
now 5-0 after another HR by Bryd
underdog
Candace Parker @CandacePParker11m
Puig is 22 and tried to escape Cuba 7x b4 succeeding. This guy is going to have a different attitude than other peeps. #DealWithIt #Puig
^^^^ amen candace!
Anonymous
It’s fine to have a different attitude than others but I’d love to see Puig tone down the arrogance – if he’s not careful he’s going to turn off a lot more than just Gnats fans.
Anonymous
I hope he causes nightmares for fans of 29 MLB teams.
Anonymous
I hope he doesn’t turn into Barry freaking Bonds.
Anonymous
I think you are over-reacting in the extreme
underdog
there;s been some arrogance and he needs to learn better media skills but I think some of it is misinterpreted–he’s very emotional, very engaged in the game, very much wants to win. And he’s young and he’s learning.
Als0 think this article that came out today should be a must-read for all fans:
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?c_id=mlb&content_id=53317846&partnerId=as_mlb_20130710_9668194&vkey=news_mlb&ymd=20130710
KT
Los Angeles Dodgers @Dodgers 26m
Yasiel Puig is offering home-field advantage. Freddie Freeman is offering hugs. Text N5 to 89269 or online: http://atmlb.com/188LDjR
Anonymous
Just keeps getting better and better : 7-0 Mets
Anonymous
Puig and Hanley first teammates batting over 400 with both at least 100 AB since 1931.
http://www.esb.com/puig-ramirez-rescue-dodgers-with-400-batting-averages/
Jon Weisman
NPUT