[Mean Spirited Conservative]

This is a great idea. Imagine what the FREEPER community could accomplish. We could help save two baseball franchises. And like Chicago DemocRats we're allowed to cast multiple votes!

[hole_n_one]

The *pingy* thingy

[BluesDuke]

Hearts are in the right place but beware the method doing more damage than good. Technically, it is called ballot-box stuffing...and it was done once before. For the 1956 game, Ohio fans - pushed incessantly by newspapers, radio, and team management - stuffed the ballot box for the Cincinnati Reds: eight Reds got voted onto the starting lineup for the game; then-Commissioner Ford Frick stepped in, invalidated the vote, but allowed two of the Reds to stay in the starting lineup without tossing the other eight off the team entirely. The irony: One of the two Reds allowed to stay in the starting lineup is the current Montreal Expos manager, Frank Robinson.

I bear no love or sympathy for Bug Selig, but I would not put it past him to decide it was in the best interest of the game that the fans should lose the All-Star voting once again, and on similar ballot-box stuffing grounds, should the idea (probably a long-enough shot) succeed.