This is an emergency call for all you fans of Yankees and/or Jorge Posada, primero pitcher, clubhouse leader, wonderful father, and all-around great guy: get yourself over to the All-Star Game page and cast up to 25 votes so Posada might beat out Jason Varitek of the (holding nose) Red Sox and Joe Mauer of the Minnesota Twins. Okay, it’s a long shot, but hey, it could happen.
I’ve written a few posts about Jorge; you can probably get to all of them from the one in 2007, when I was lobbying for him to be in that year’s All-Star game. Then there’s the one about his son, linked below:
Jorge and son, JP Jr., who has craniosynostis.
While you’re on the All-Star page, cast a vote to keep Mark Texeira in the lead for first base–he’s currently less than 4000 votes ahead of Kevin Youkilis of the Red (this time gagging) Sox. Youkilis is of a size and physical appearance that makes him look like he belongs in football or ice hockey rather than in baseball, and he holds his bat like a rifle. I pronounce his name “YOU-KILL-US”, and I have to admit, a lot of the time he does. Texeira’s a great player, though, and a much nicer person, so…
Make a Yankee fan happy. Do the right thing.
