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Busting baseballAEs ballot box When it comes to casting All-Star Game votes, you can help your leagueAEs cause by voting for the best u and worst u candidates.

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Publication Date: 31-MAY-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Busting baseballAEs ballot box When it comes to casting All-Star Game votes, you can help your leagueAEs cause by voting for the best u and worst u candidates.(Sports)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Lindsey Willhite lwillhite@dailyherald.com

Some ideas are such a colossal waste of time u yet so much fun to contemplate and complete u they simply must be pursued to the bitter end no matter how futile the gesture might be.

And with that dramatic buildup, behold the idea:

LetAEs mess with Major League BaseballAEs decree, now in its seventh year, to award the homefield advantage in the World Series to the league that wins the All-Star Game.

First, letAEs acknowledge there already are some partners in this enjoyable crime, such as members of The Sons of Sam Horn, the signature blog for Red Sox Nation. They launched a campaign last month to get Washington outfielder Lastings Milledge voted to the National LeagueAEs starting lineup.

The joke? Milledge isnAEt even in the big leagues as heAEs struggling to...



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