Bruce and Votto on the Campaign Trail

by Slyde on May 15, 2009 2:00 PM EDT in Features

Jay Bruce and Joey Votto have been campaigning across the United States to be elected to the All Star Game.

All too often over the past several years the Reds have been relegated to the lone sympathy All Star that is mandated by the rules. This year though they actually have some viable candidates to potentially start the game for the National League.

Two of those candidates are the young offensive studs Joey Votto and Jay Bruce. Votto is second in the National League in batting average and on base percentage, sixth in OPS and ninth in OPS+.

Bruce's case is not as strong as his best qualification is that he is 5th in the NL in home runs, but he doesn't play the same position as Albert Pujols. While Votto deserves to go to the game more than anyone on the offense, Bruce might just be our best shot for sneaking a starter into the lineup.

Both of these guys will have a hard time cracking the starting line up, but the only way we can give them a real shot is if we start stuffing the ballot box. So click that link and get to voting. Let's get these young guys into the All Star lineup now so we can watch them play there for the next decade!

NOTE: please feel free to also vote for every other Red on the ballot. Brandon Phillips has a case, but 2B has a lot of contenders right now.

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this has to be a thing

i know the Sam LeCure bobblehead thing was kind of a stretch because there were bound to be divisions in the community, but this is something we all can really get behind. we need to create as many bogus email accounts as it takes to ensure our boys make it to St Louis. hey justin, didnt you do some research on some Cincy political boss who was good rigging elections?

go look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls

by Charlie Scrabbles on May 15, 2009 2:18 PM EDT reply actions

Looks like mlb.com is dumb enough that they count anything regardless of whether it's real or not

Because barackobama@whitehouse.gov just voted 25 times for Joey, Jay, and Brandon.

by chesirecat on May 15, 2009 2:54 PM EDT up reply actions

well

onuhistorain0116@yahoo.com, justin007000@yahoo.com, and justin008000@yahoo.com, and j-dickerson.1@onu.edu are all voting for these guys 25 times.

George Cox realized that alochol, money, and jobs gave him votes, so start giving away money, jobs and booze and we got his in the bag.

Bloop

by justin007000 on May 15, 2009 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions

and blacklist anyone who doesn't vote the Red ticket.

Bloop

by justin007000 on May 15, 2009 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions

onuhistorain...

you crack me up, justin.

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on May 15, 2009 4:05 PM EDT up reply actions

er onuhistorian

Bloop

by justin007000 on May 15, 2009 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions

what i'm saying is feel free to use these to help fill out votes

just unclik the box that sends me mlb shit.

Bloop

by justin007000 on May 15, 2009 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions

Dude...

if those are actual e-mail addresses, they’re going to get tons of spam now that you’ve posted them publicly on the Internet.

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on May 15, 2009 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions

i don't actually use any of them anymore

onu email will be dead in a few months and i created the yahoo accounts for fantasy baseball.

Bloop

by justin007000 on May 15, 2009 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions

so feel free to start using these

because i got bored with it.

Bloop

by justin007000 on May 15, 2009 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions

not that it really matters

because i don’t really use these anymore.

Bloop

by justin007000 on May 15, 2009 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions

Are there any Catchers playing well in the NL?

by jsl413 on May 15, 2009 2:55 PM EDT reply actions

Bengie Molina!

by Brendanukkah on May 15, 2009 3:07 PM EDT up reply actions

Ramon Hernandez has been doing alright

go look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls

by Charlie Scrabbles on May 15, 2009 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions

I thought that too

until I saw and OPS+ of 75.

Benji and Yadier are bothing having good years. Chris Ianetta too. Plus, Pudge has an OPS+ of 107.

"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty

by Slyde on May 15, 2009 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions

Ramon's turning things around, but he was pretty awful for that first month

If he continues to play well over the next couple weeks, then maybe I can begin to endorse him for the All-Star team in good conscience.

by Brendanukkah on May 15, 2009 3:21 PM EDT up reply actions

whatevs

he’s the Reds catcher, so he gets my vote! im sick your lack of conviction, Brendan.

go look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls

by Charlie Scrabbles on May 15, 2009 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions

Sea Bass appreciates your vote too

If the game is going to be in BirDLand, then you know somehow Gonzalez will be on it.

by Brendanukkah on May 15, 2009 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions

well

i voted Hanley Ramirez. i figured Gonzo would rather spend the All-Star break with his family. i think about people like that.

go look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls

by Charlie Scrabbles on May 15, 2009 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions

You can just write in "Molina" and let the league figure it out

by ken on May 15, 2009 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

Heh.

And Adam Dunn's spirit, ranging for revenge / With Ate by his side come hot from hell, / Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice / Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war...

by Paul Householder on May 15, 2009 6:54 PM EDT up reply actions

Also, what a joke Christian Guzman is.

Avg: .390. OBP: .390

How do you not walk at all? When his average falls off, he’s screwed.

by jsl413 on May 15, 2009 2:57 PM EDT reply actions

I have been making Bruce my lone OF pick

This prevents other out fielders not gain more votes. Unless you are going to vote for Dickerson and Taveras also. But I figure why not give Bruce the best shot we can.

Obviously Votto deserves the votes. And I still can’t give up voting for Griffey. Say what you will, I’ll probably write him in the first year he’s retired.

by RedConn on May 15, 2009 3:02 PM EDT reply actions

BTW

I think that is the worst Photoshop job I’ve ever done. I didn’t give myself enough time to find pictures that really worked.

"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty

by Slyde on May 15, 2009 3:16 PM EDT reply actions

Not bad at all.

by ol Pete on May 15, 2009 5:47 PM EDT up reply actions

Unrelatedly...

I saw a column on yahoo sports about how DHEA, a steroid but nowhere near as strong as its stronger cousins, is legal for sale in the US…and the MLBPA has, on that basis, seen to it that baseball is the only major sport in which it’s not banned.

Anyway, the author mentioned that apparently what happened with Manny was that he took a steroid, or steroids, which upped his testosterone levels. MLB testing caught that, but his defense was going to be that he actually took DHEA, and since that’s legal, he was fine. MLB claims their testing can tell the difference, but luckily they found evidence of the fertility drug (to offset the steroid) and caught him on that before for the hearing. He didn’t contest at that point.

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on May 15, 2009 3:36 PM EDT reply actions

just voted

Votto, of course, at 1B, Bruce, Dunner in the OF

"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other." - Jack Handey

by JJ on May 15, 2009 4:08 PM EDT reply actions

oh, and Phillips

while I was at it. Reds could be very well represented this year.

"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other." - Jack Handey

by JJ on May 15, 2009 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions

Especially when they start naming pitchers

by Brendanukkah on May 15, 2009 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions

The Reds have good pitchers?

I’ve never heard of them in the media.

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on May 15, 2009 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions

Aaron and Brandon mean nothing to you?

Ali Boombaye

by Cy Schourek on May 15, 2009 5:27 PM EDT up reply actions

You mean Adam and Brandon, right?

Let me write out a formal proof for you.

by Gray on May 15, 2009 5:33 PM EDT up reply actions

McCarver actually calls Volquez "Aaron"

quick recovery’d

Ali Boombaye

by Cy Schourek on May 15, 2009 8:44 PM EDT up reply actions

Jannish?

by ol Pete on May 15, 2009 5:48 PM EDT up reply actions

Things are about to get ungly here, the sky just got REAL dark

What should be RR contigency plan be when all hell breaks loose here in about 15 minutes?

Also……screw golf. Screw it in its ugly face.

I miss the old days of the internet when men were men, hot girls were middle aged men, and hot underage girls were FBI agents.....

by jch24 on May 15, 2009 7:58 PM EDT reply actions

are you still alive JCH?

"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other." - Jack Handey

by JJ on May 15, 2009 8:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Yep

Apparently it blew over. Local TV says there’s a tornado watch blahblahblah, but the radar looked like hell when I looked. Still dark but not a drop of rain yet. Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. :)

I miss the old days of the internet when men were men, hot girls were middle aged men, and hot underage girls were FBI agents.....

by jch24 on May 15, 2009 8:29 PM EDT up reply actions