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MLB All-Star Game 2010 Lineups: Ubaldo Jimenez Starts for NL, David Price for AL

The wait is over. American League manager Joe Girardi and National League manager Charlie Manuel announced the lineups and starting pitchers for the 81st Major League Baseball All-Star Game, which will be played Tuesday night at 8 p.m. ET at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif. The big news, obviously, is the starting...

Evan Meek an Unlikely, Deserving All-Star

Many people reacted with surprise on Sunday when Pirates setup man Evan Meek was named to the National League All-Star team. Almost none of that surprise came from Pittsburgh. That's because Meek has been excellent this year -- one of the most important pitchers on the Pirates' staff -- even if his team's struggles have...

Greenberg Still Ultimate All-Star Snub

Way back when the world was young, I covered my second All-Star Game in 1984 in San Francisco. The National League All-Star manager that year, Paul Owens of the Phillies, was inundated during the Monday press conference with questions about the players he left off the team. The American League honorary captain that year...

Picks for Final All-Star Spots Are Obvious

It amazes me that Major League Baseball continues the tradition of punishing the managers who were lucky enough to take their teams to the World Series the preceding season. Their reward for that accomplishment: they get to manage the All-Star Game. Lucky them. The reality is Phillies manager Charlie Manuel and...

Players Deserve Some Blame (and Credit) for All-Star Picks

It's always fun on All-Star selection day to be critical of the fans for voting in undeserving players or the managers for picking their own guys and leaving others out in the cold, but let's not forget that the players themselves have a part in this process. Since 2003, the players have been casting votes and they...