# All Star Game voting preferences

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-star-game-voting-preferences/986611>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Tags:** baseball-mlb\
**Created:** [July 5, 2023, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-star-game-voting-preferences/986611 "2023-07-05T00:51:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-star-game-voting-preferences/986611/1 "2023-07-05T00:51:49Z")

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People seem to have different values of who they want to have in the All Star Game. Do you want to see the biggest stars of the game? The players having the best year so far? Do you put a larger consideration for players from your preferred team? Here’s a hypothetical (these guys all play the same position in the same league:

_Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-star-game-voting-preferences/986611/1))_

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**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-star-game-voting-preferences/986611/2 "2023-07-05T01:10:41Z")

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I took the Colonel. Getting one last look at a legend is worth a slot in the ASG. See Willie Mays.

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-star-game-voting-preferences/986611/3 "2023-07-05T01:37:02Z")

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The Colonel should really be a commissioner’s pick, like Albert Pujols was last year. But I’d probably vote for him over Fernando Terrifico.

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-star-game-voting-preferences/986611/4 "2023-07-05T01:54:02Z")

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There’s too many teams and players to have a single All Star game that has significance.

Select the best active players from each league to go down in the record book as an All Star, then allow each team to name players to play the actual game as a traditional exhibition.

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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-star-game-voting-preferences/986611/5 "2023-07-05T08:21:10Z")

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I don’t have strong feelings about one type of player over another because I don’t really take the All Star game especially seriously, but I do want to say that I _adore_ the player monikers you came up with.