Vote for Bay

On Friday, the suddenly non-genteel Rowdy crapped all over my Vote Bay post with this shockingly brutal polemic:

"No Pirate deserves to go to the All-Star game... Whether or not Jason Bay is an All-Star is a bunch of horseshit. It's a worthless consolation prize, and it's disgraceful how the club must find such ways to market itself in the absence of winning."

As usual, I don't think Rowdy was necessarily serious. And I wholeheartedly agree with his main point, that the front office is disgraceful. Especially after reading about the Pirates' pro-Bay PR blitz. I don't give a rat's ass about the All-Star game. I won't be there, won't watch it, and haven't watched one since Dave Parker threw out Jim Rice at third and Brian Downing at home. Since every team is required to have at least one All-Star, it's a given that Bay will be there. Bay has less than half the votes of likely starters Andruw, Beltran, and Junior, so it's also almost a given that he won't start. All that being said, I'm still pro-Bay and still pro-Vote-for-Bay. Bay's 1.065 OPS is 2nd in the NL to Pujols. Being pro-Bay should not equate with being pro-DL or pro-McNuttings. Bay deserves respect as the best OF in the NL and more All-Star votes. If not that, Bay at least deserves the undying support and man-love of Pirates fans everywhere. To vote for Bay (25 times) look in the upper right here.