What a Tragedy

Pat Neshek fell short in the American League Final Vote for the all star game. He fell to Red Soxs reliever Hideki Okajima. Now I personally have a bone to pick with the voting public, the All Star game voting is a hoax and it really is time to do something about it. I am not being judgemental because of favoritism, Pat Neshek deserved to be in the All Star game and was clearly the best player on that five player ballot. You look at Okajimas stats and they are not nearly as good or impressive as Pat Nesheks 1.74 era and 51 strikeouts. Sure Okajima has a era under 1 but you have to consider the fact that Neshek has been put into situations where the game is on the line or very close. Okajima has the Boston Red Sox power hitters to back it up, I mean when your up 15-2 in the 8th inning its not that hard to mantain an era under 1. This is really disappointing and I wish the public would look more into the stats of the player rather then the name.