Charlie Manuel tabs Tim Lincecum, snubs Dan Haren, for All-Star start

“9th in the majors in home runs” Howard?

All you ever do is say how undeserving our players are or how crappy our players are compared to others. I mean come on, who goes out there and votes for a player just because a team over campaigned for a deserving player.

Mark Reynolds: .888 OPS in 2009

How is Werth having a better year than Reynolds again?

And the last man on the roster (33rd, not 25th) is MUCH less important than the starting pitcher. Chances are, Victorino wouldn’t have even played — except that Beltran’s out, so Manuel “happens” to choose his guy, Victorino, to start in CF.

Why not give the nod to the reigning Cy Young winner? Because it’s entirely on reputation. It’s not the “2008 All Star Game, played in July 2009”, it’s the “2009 All Star Game” — as in, only this season should be relevant. And Haren’s had a better year than Lincecum in almost every way. That Lincecum should be chosen to start over Haren entirely because of an award he won for his performance LAST year is COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS.

It’s the All-Star 2009 game. Not the All-Star Last Half of 2008 Season Plus First Half of 2009 Season game.

We’ve all exhausted the discussion enough. Dan Haren is simply, flat-out, no questions asked, the better pitcher so far this season. To judge any decision based on last year’s statistics is silly. According to your little theory, Cliff Lee should be starting the All-Star game this year because, although his stats are inferior to Roy Halladay’s right now, he was the 2008 Cy Young winner and deserves the start instead.

To add to the Reynolds vs. Werth argument, you’re just shooting off random statements. To say that “Jayson Werth is having a better year than Reynolds” is like saying that two dollars is better than one dollar – is it really worth discussing? It’s interchangeable anyway as both players have posted pretty similar numbers.

Mark Reynolds 2009
Jayson Werth 2009

And for the “every year of his career” remark, there’s not much to talk about. Reynolds has only had one full season so I’m not sure why you would even compare career stats to begin with.

And his stupid video game ad.

I hate the DH.

will change your mind!!

Haren would be the 4th.

He actually started three ASGs. For Oakland in 1971 and ’75 – and with the Giants in ’78.

Yes.

Ben Sheets, for some reason, started last year…

As it’s not like they are really in the running for the playoffs right now.

is cold!

So I hear!

Marilyn Pittman mis-spells “Homophobic”, then accuses us of being “uneducated dullards.” Maybe that should be our new slogan AZ SnakePit – home of the “Homphobic [sic] uneducated dullards”.

I dunno, but I’d expect a self-professed “comedian” to have a sense of humor.

But strikes me you need to try a lot harder to get nicknamed “The Freak” in San Francisco than in Phoenix…

it’s not the kind of post I would accept from anyone, let alone for their first ever on SB Nation

I agree it’s pretty strong, but you’re failing to take any personal responsibility in this game. Pittmonster didnt appear out of the blue. Pittman spake, apparently, in direct response to your incendiary nonsense. And instead of considering the situation, and thinking, “Gee, maybe I kind of deserve at least some of this, maybe I went a little too far”, “I can see how someone else might be upset with this”, you retreat into your self-righteous shell, banning people, insulting people you’ve banned, threatening to ban other people. Even when AVS offers up a startlingly polite appeal, you’ll have none of it. It’s always someone else’s fault. Never Jim McLennan’s.

Layer upon layer of obfuscation, about women sleeping their way to the top, about strangers not having a sense of humor, about all this being Diamondhacks’ fault. Learning to occasionally say you’re sorry or “I made a mistake” would do you – and this blog – a world of good.

Want me to crank up the Wayback Machine and reprint the post that got you revoked?

This is what I mean. Make this about me, something that happened, what, a year ago, to deflect from your real time rudeness, today. Reprint it, I dont care. It says more about your fear of me than me, and I dont regret a word of it, or feel the slightest embarrassed by it. Of course, if history is any judge, what you’ll do is reprint it, ban me, then presume to speak for me, because that’s how you evidently roll.

I suggest you use it, and stay away from this "thuggish" community – to which, I recall, you came back, pleading for re-admittance after you yourself were banned.

You recall wrong. I never pleaded for re-admittance. I asked for a fair shake. There’s a difference. After you capriciously banned me for confirmimg shoe was “full of sh*t” ( something he subsequently and very graciously owned up to), I simply asked that posters not make spurious references to my positions or presume to speak on my behalf. I was perfectly fine if everyone left it at that. But, if you and others were going to publish sniggering references and false assumptions about what I said (which is exactly what happened) on the internet, I felt journalistic integrity behooved you to allow me to substantively defend myself in your forum. It’s your blog and you didnt have to agree to that, but you did, which I appreciate. That said, I would have considered you a first-rate asshat if you hadnt.

It’s sexist to even suggest a woman gains advantage through sexual favors, but homophobic to suggest a man got a role the same way. Got to love the double-standards of political correctness, which can expand from a specific comment about one person, and claim broadly-directed offense to everyone in the group. And I’m not quite sure what “trend” you mean. It’s not like this site is devoted to discussing the sexual tendencies of Tim Lincecum.