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All eligible Brewers among All-Star vote leaders
Braun and Hardy leading at respective positions

MILWAUKEE -- Ryan Braun and J.J. Hardy rank as the leading vote-getters at their respective positions as all Brewers on the ballot are faring extraordinarily well in early voting results for the 2009 All-Star Team. The first round of voting results was announced today by Major League Baseball.

Braun, who is batting .325 with eight home runs and 31 RBI, ranks third overall in National League voting results with 663,164 votes, trailing only St. Louis first baseman Albert Pujols (842,058) and Philadelphia second baseman Chase Utley (675,596). J.J. Hardy leads all shortstops with 403,269 votes.

Meanwhile, Prince Fielder, Bill Hall, Jason Kendall and Rickie Weeks all rank second at their positions. Outfielders Mike Cameron and Corey Hart rank fifth and seventh, respectively, among N.L. outfielders

Milwaukee’s vendetta against All-Star game leaves Ibanez sixth in outfield voting
Bud Selig, baseball’s commissioner and former owner of the Brewers, signed his own declaration of war against the Midsummer Classic by enacting the “homefield advantage” rule in 2003.

Brewers fans have now picked up where Selig left off by voting for several of their undeserving players in this year’s contest. Bill Hall is currently hitting .223 with four homers and 11 RBIs and sits in second place, well ahead of Chipper Jones, Ryan Zimmerman and Aramis Ramirez at third base.

J.J. Hardy is hitting .247 with five homers and 23 RBIs and leads all NL shortstops in voting, ahead of Hanley Ramirez, Jimmy Rollins and Jose Reyes.

Best of all, Jason Kendall’s .206 average and zero homers were sufficient enough to earn him second place among NL catchers, ahead of Russell Martin, Ivan Rodriguez and Brian McCann.

Raul Ibanez, easily the most productive hitter in all of baseball, trails five other men in NL outfield voting, including suspended male-impersonator Manny Ramirez and Brewers outfielder Mike Cameron.

Willie wrote:The AL will win the all-star game again anyway.

TwinTownBisonFan wrote:how is this any different than every fvcking yankee and sawx player getting every year? how is it any different than fans in Japan stuffing the boxes for every Japanese player regardless of ability

TwinTownBisonFan wrote:how is this any different than every fvcking yankee and sawx player getting every year? how is it any different than fans in Japan stuffing the boxes for every Japanese player regardless of ability

JMU DJ wrote:

TwinTownBisonFan wrote:how is this any different than every fvcking yankee and sawx player getting every year? how is it any different than fans in Japan stuffing the boxes for every Japanese player regardless of ability

This is the NL homie... don't care what those D-bags do on their side. Plus both those teams have nation wide fake fan bases, the Japanese watch the MLB and specifically teams with Japanese players.... this is the Brewers... they haven't won a pennant since 1982! I wouldn't be surprised if Paul Molitor or Robin Yount got write in nods the way this is going. Seriously, how many Brewer fans are their? Has to be 10-20 times less than the Yankees, Sawk, or Japanese nations.