Gas companies, Chuck Woolery, and all-star fan voting

I woke up and turned on the television and there was a commercial about PGW (Philadelphia Gas Works). The purpose of the commercial was to remind people to pay their gas bills or their gas will be shut off, which is an understandable, almost commendable use of commercial time. But then it goes on to say how it is going to be so much harder to turn the gas back on and how much more expensive it will be. Well good job PGW guess who that rule most effects....wait for it....right the fucking poor who do not have enough to worry about without the gas company threatening to make it extremely difficult to have heat and hot water if something happens and they cannot pay the gas bill. Good job I hope your proud of yourself PGW.

I was watching Game Show Network and Chuck Woolery has hosted at least 63 shows. I was watching Lingo which is too stupid of a game to explain and these two girls were like (with huge attitude) "I graduated from Princeton" and then went on to say one was a model and one was a make up artist. Seriously if you graduate from Princeton don't be so proud that you have one job that requires a 5 week course at a cosmotology school and another that require not education at all. And then they lost! So the moral of the story is Princeton Sucks.

Lastly (thanks to Greg McKeever) I was made aware of the all-star voting for the baseball All star game and I was extremely angered at the NL voting (http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050606&content_id=1078138&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb) but especially
the Al voting (http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050605&content_id=1077695&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb#results). I mean it is getting to the point where the really popular players who got injured or have not performed as well that season are not the only problem (we call this The Vince Carter problem). But now people are exclusively voting for players on their favorite teams, and two particular teams are taking over the all-star game with their mediocre players.

First I'll go over the NL because there are not nearly as many crazy problems with the voting. The only real glaring problems are at shortstop. Most of the other positions you can argue someone else, but no one is extremely out of place like Nomar is at shortstop. His statistics: 14 games, 0 home runs, 4 rbis, .157 batting average. He must be an all-star. I would also complain about griffey, but he is a future hall-of-famer so I am not allowed.

The AL all-star team, like every fucking media outlet, is overrun by red sox and yankess. Tino Martinez who is batting .237 is ahead of Kevin Millar who is batting .254 and neither has more than 30 rbis. The best player at the position is in 4th place named Teixeira for all the idiot people voting, and he plays for the Rangers who play in the state of Texas. Every position is like this, but what is even worse is in every position there is at least one yankee and one red sock in the top 4 vote getters. Now seriously how about the asshole red sox and yankee fans realize the fucking baseball world does not revolve around them. At almost every position there is at least one person better than the one the red sox and yankees fans voted for. But they should get most of the all-stars because they are the best teams in baseball right......oh yeah the RED SOX ARE 4 GAMES OUT AND THE YANKEES ARE SEVEN GAMES OUT. Seriously this is insulting as a fan of baseball, and someone who is a fan of a team south of new york. I cannot wait until september when people have to talk about the cardinals, the white sox, and other teams than the Yankees and Red Sox. The again we have to deal with months of "what can they do now" stories during the offseason. Fans should really have to take a test before voting, because it seems more and more the minority of real fans are being alienated by people who just know the names in the sport go online without knowing how they performed and voting. Real fans don't care about voting because they know their vote does not count because it is over powered by idiot people who do not really follow the game closely. I mean just look how many times Vince Carter has been voted into the NBA all-star game without deserving it. I understand that the point of all-star voting is to get fans involved in the sport, get them to watch the all-star game since they are supposed to want to watch the player they voted for, and try to make them into real fans. But the real fans are the only people who watch the game, theyve tried to add meaning to it, but how can you hang homefield advantage on one game that shouldnt count. The all-star game is entertainment and now real fans do not want to watch it because the best players are not in it. Baseball is the second worse sport at marketing itself to fans, and are in for a NHL like awakening if it does not do a better job. It is mostly Bud Selig's fault because he is a shitty commissioner, and has been lucky that baseball has brought itself back without any real NFL or NBA style marketing. The MLB does not exploit their fan base, and thats the reason it is the third most popular sport instead of second.

Overall I think fans should not be allowed to vote for all-stars. The best players should always make it, and the coaches and writers know that better than idiot fake fans. Also I think baseball needs the Yankees and Red Sox to be bad so fans will realize there are 28 other teams in the league. When they were talking about the Phillies on ESPNEWS they said the Phillies bullpen was good before picking up Urbina (which isnt true we may have been average at best) and called Ryan Madson, Ryan Madison. Calling someone by their wrong name is a mortal sin in reporting and it is a joke just because he isnt a yankee or red sox people cannot pronounce his name right. Also why is there 30 teams in the MLB, 6 divisions and 6 teams in the NL central and 4 in the AL west.