Here is this week’s news and discussion relating to the 2016 MLB All-Star Game.
Weekend (5/21-5/22):
- MLB All-Star Game: Do Phillies Have Any Representatives? (That Ball’s Outta Here)
- My National League All-Star Ballot (Sport’s Blog)
- Rangers, City of Arlington Announce Plans for New Retractable-Roof Stadium (Red Fever)
- Rougned Odor’s popularity among peers soars after punch (Star-Telegram)
- 4 Cleveland Indians Deserving Of Your MLB All-Star Vote (Factory of Sadness)
- 5 Miami Marlins Players Who Have Played Like All-Stars So Far In 2016 (Rant Sports)
5/23/16:
- MLB’s Socks Are About To Get A Lot More Fun (The Post Game)
- New Stance Fusion Socks To Debut At 2016 MLB All-Star Game (CBS Philly)
- Royals place Alex Gordon on DL with fractured right wrist (KSHB 41)
- Twenty-Three Former All-Stars Highlight 2016 MLB Draft Club Representatives (KKTV 11 News)
5/24/16:
- David Ortiz, Trevor Story Among Players Named on My MLB All-Star Game Ballot (Sports Blog)
- The five most disappointing MLB teams this season (Yard Barker)
- MLB All-Star Set to Make Rehab Start for the Biscuits (Alabama News)
- Stance Socks Is Now The Official On-Field Sock Of MLB (Kicks on Fire)
5/25/16:
- Cleveland Indians: Could Josh Tomlin Start The ASG? (Factory of Sadness)
- Five things we learned Tuesday: Gregory Polanco, emerging star (ESPN)
- Make-A-Wish Sending Local Boy to MLB All-Star Game in San Diego (Time Warner Cable News)
- Media Circus: Vin Scully declines Fox’s All-Star Game invitation (Sports Illustrated)
- Vin Scully turns down Fox’s All-Star Game invitation (Sporting News)
5/26/16:
- The Five Hottest Live Events Of Summer 2016 (Forbes)
- MasterCard Extends, Expands Long-running Relationship with Major League Baseball (AMA)
- Most deserving first-time All-Star candidates (The Mercury News)
- Royals’ Mike Moustakas has torn ACL, out for season (The Kansas City Star)
- Vin Scully politely declines calling the MLB All-Star Game: Sigh…. (Sports Blog)
5/27/16:
- MLB All-Star Game: 10 players who could get screwed out of a spot (Fansided)
- MLB Bullets Welcomes The Newest Phenom (Bleed Cubbie Blue)
- Some slow-starting MLB stars are on track for seriously bad seasons (Washington Post)
- Stephen Strasburg’s Big Payday (The Sport’s Quotient)