For not doing enough to help get you to the 2010 MLB All-Star Game in Anaheim next Tuesday.
If you want me to turn in my Red Sox Nation card, I will. I thought I did enough. I campaigned for you on Twitter and Facebook. I even made sure to make a few posts here on the site. Heck, I even got my mom in on the whole voting thing and she ended up as your Assistant Campaign Manager. I thought I did my best but it doesn’t look like my best was good enough this time.
Sure it might be a blessing in disguise so now that you can let your gimpy ankle have a few days off next week but I feel you deserve to be there with all the other great stars. If it weren’t for you, we (the Boston Red Sox) might not be where they are right now.
I feel as though Red Sox Nation as a whole let you down as we couldn’t help you beat Nick Swisher of the hated New York Yankees. I mean after all, we are the same groups of fans who helped vote in Johnny Damon in 2002 and Hideki Okajima in 2007.
But when the time came to get one of the best Red Sox this players this season, we just couldn’t get it done. Even with the partnership with the Cincinnati Reds to get Joey Votto there, which he won, it just wasn’t enough.
The one thing I don’t understand in all of this if Votto finished with over 13 million votes and Swisher won with 9.8 million votes, how come you didn’t get more votes than Swisher. Logic would dictate that you should have won. But then again when does anything logical ever happen.
So Youk, before you enjoy your four days off next week, let’s take care of business in Toronto over the weekend and shoot down the Blue Jays. And whether you think it or not, you’re an All-Star in my book.
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