Cabrera: All-Star snub. And?
“In the beginning, I really couldn’t understand it. I’m really disappointed. Like anybody else, I’d like to be there. I think deserved to be on the team. It didn’t happen,” Cabrera said before Wednesday’s game against the Texas Rangers.
Translation: “I am incensed. It incenses me that there is an obvious East Coast, Midwest and anti-steroid bias going on here. What? Just because I don’t play for New York (How are you going to possibly be voted in before that guy? 50K+ every game in the Bronx voting for him plus the fact that he is on every television commercial for some athletic product?) or Detroit? Thanks for supporting me Angel fans. Seriously… Julio Lugo was ahead of me.”
“Oh yeah, and thank you steroid scandal for making Leyland choose Michael Young to represent the Texas Rangers instead of some other guy.”
“But it’s not his fault. He had nothing to do with it,” Cabrera said. “He told me he couldn’t believe that I wasn’t picked.”
Cabrera actually said that last statement. It means he understands perfectly why he didn’t get chosen, and so should you, Angel fans.
To draw a bit of a parable from this situation, fans (and by fans, I am assuming we are all fans of Democracy) who do not vote should not bitch about the outcome of a popularity contest. You have to vote people! Or Michael Young is going to be ther next President of the United States! And then the War Machine shall continue to march on!
And… scene.
I voted for OC once this season. I know I went to more games than that, but still… I feel I did my part.
