Stars help give baseball a pulse in inner cities Juan Pierre joins fellow African-American MLB players Orlando Hudson, Ken Griffey Jr., Garret Anderson, Prince Fielder, Brandon Phillips, and Gary Sheffield to promote baseball in inner-city neighborhoods. If all of the millions of kids that Pierre has worked with would vote just 5 times, Juan would have locked up the starting All-Star nod last decade. What a stud.
Manny is now trailing Mike freakin' Cameron in ASG balloting. I mean, Manny doesn't deserve to be there, but Mike Cameron? Brewers fans are delusional. Cameron is hitting .243. He was in a 3-for-38 slump a few weeks ago, yet he's somehow more worthy of the honor than Beast Mode?!!!
We all know the only reason Juan Pierre isn't running away with the voting is because he's not on the ballot, and its difficult to write "Juan Pierre" on 20,000 ballots, but let's be real here: Mike Cameron should not be anywhere near the All Star Game, and Brewers fans are making a bigger mockery of it than Manny is.
I'm guessing Corey Hart (.248) is in the top 10 also. Shame on you, Milwaukee.
Of course, we can each vote 25 times with each email address. You can use fake email addresses, so go ahead and vote as many times as you can. This voting will help alleviate the stupidity of the All-Star game which, at this point, will have Jason Kendall squatting behind the plate. (Jason Kendall is #1 in voting for catchers? Really???)
You can only vote for two other outfielders when you write in Juan Pierre, so make sure your write-in vote counts.
But, outside of voting, there is more that can be done. Call DodgerTalk after the games and talk about this. Prepare some facts about Pierre, like his BA, OPS, extra base hits, stolen bases, GAMER ATTITUDE, whatever. And just hit the ground running when they take your call. This will inform the uninformed about the cause.
Send an email to Ken Gurnick to tell him to put Pierre's all-star worthy performance on the front page. His email is ken.gurnick@mlb.com.
If anyone else can think of other things to do to aid this, post them here. The JP all-star bid will be one of this year's causes. Since the fan vote bobblehead has been abolished, we must take our efforts to a larger scale, the All-Star Game.
This is not a joke. If someone can make a Vote for Manny website, urging people to vote for a cheater, then this is the anti-Vote for Manny website.
Juan Pierre is one of the hardest working players in baseball. He kept his mouth shut when the Dodgers traded for Manny Roidmirez, and now that he got his starting job back, he has been lights out. Juan is deserving of being in the All-Star Game, not Manny.
This will not be easy. Juan isn't even listed on the ballot. You have to write his name in. But if Dodger fans can band together to put guys like Cesar Izturis in the All-Star Game, and rock the vote enough to give Joe Beimel a bobblehead, then anything is possible.
The purpose of this blog is to get Juan Pierre elected as a STARTER to the 2009 All Star Game in St. Louis?
WHY?
Because he deserves it. Juan Pierre is a very good baseball player who is working hard to earn that ridiculous paycheck that Ned Colletti gave him. We at VoteForPierre don't fault Juan for signing that $$$$$$$$ contract. We do applaud him for give 100% every time he is on the field.
Juan Pierre joins fellow African-American MLB players Orlando Hudson, Ken Griffey Jr., Garret Anderson, Prince Fielder, Brandon Phillips, and Gary Sheffield to promote baseball in inner-city neighborhoods. If all of the millions of kids that Pierre has worked with would vote just 5 times, Juan would have locked up the starting All-Star nod last decade. What a stud.
