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If you go to MLB.com you can vote for the all-star game and it explicitly states that you can vote up to 25 times. Now if every Freeper took this opportunity we could field a team of Expos and a team of Twins for the mid-summer classic!

I know of the 25-vote allowance - but my position does not change (and not just because it seems now that the Twins are to be spared, poor Bug Selig!). Even with the 25-vote allowance it would still be deemed ballot-box stuffing, assuming it succeeded.
If I know nothing else about the governors of baseball, I know that in their cavalier hands the rules practically are that there ain't no rules, when they inconvenience said governors. (If there were, the reserve clause could not possibly have been willfully misconstrued and abused as it was for all those years until it was finally and mercifully thrown the hell out...and the umpires would not be able to construe the strike zone the way too damn many judges - and elected representatives, for that matter - construe the Constitution. Just to name two examples.)

And considering what a thoroughgoing horse's ass Bug Selig has proven to be, it would be entirely in character for him - on the extremely outside chance that the vote could produce starting All-Star lineups of Twins versus Expos strictly - to declare that, since obviously even a generous voting allowance did not prevent the vote's corruption, it is just as obvious that another means of selecting the All-Star Game's competition will just have to be found because now twice in baseball history has it been shown that it is too simple to corrupt the fans' vote.

But it wouldn't matter if every registered FREEPer availed themselves of 25 votes to stuff the ballot box. The All-Star voting is well enough underway that it would require every American citizen plus the voter rolls (dead and alive) of Chicago to overcome the tally even now and put Twins and Expos exclusively on the teams. (I hope I don't have to remind anyone that pulling a stunt like this, even with the 25-votes-allowed condition, just might reflect against our own integrity - hypocrisy charges, anyone? If we multi-vote for an All-Star Game not two years after we screamed bloody murder over Damnocrats multivoting for a certain extinguished Vice President in Florida and maybe elsewhere, we end up looking like the idiots. And I don't think FREEPers are idiots.

Baseball has enough problems without this kind of nonsense. I say again: Those who conceived this ballot box stuffing (sorry, but that is what it is, no matter the 25-vote allowance) idea as a contraction protest may have their hearts in the right places, but their brains have gone to bed.