Let me get this straight...Barry Bonds gets booed in every visiting ballpark yet gets voted into the All Star game by the same fans that are booing him. That is perplexing to me.
According to this article on espn.com
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/allstar07/news/story?id=2922709
Bonds, ". . .overcame a 119,000-vote deficit in the final days of balloting and finished 123,000 ahead of the Chicago Cubs' Alfonso Soriano on Sunday to claim the third and final starting outfield spot for the National League."
Bonds's numbers are all-star worthy, .304/.516/.603 and one could make the case that he even should be a starter. If one is to believe that he should be a starter than one would commend the fans for objectively voting in a player that deserves to start. (More times than not the fans do a suitable job in voting in the starters.)
Nevertheless it is hard for me to see why fans voted him in when we are led to believe that people in general are worn out by Bonds. I get the impression that most people are sick of Bonds...sick of ESPN's continual coverage of Bonds...and just plain tired of Bonds being "the" story in baseball. I would argue that fans just want him to go away. But obviously baseball fans are still intrigued with Bonds and maybe don't dislike him as much as we are led to believe.
I can already see that Fox's and ESPN's coverage of the game is going to be Bonds-centric. For better or worse, Bonds again is going to be "the" story come all-star weekend.
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I believe one of the biggest reasons that Bonds is starting is because the All-Star game is being played in San Francisco. Maybe Giants fans gave the initial push to put him in as a starter. I agree that we will all be pounded with Bonds stories until the game is over.
There is merit to that thought. It is just surprising that he passed Soriano who should have been getting massive support from the Wrigley faithful.
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