All Star Ballot - Write In Campaign: Jed Lowrie

by AlohaSox on Apr 26, 2011 5:34 PM EDT

So, this morning I wandered over to the Red Sox MLB website, and saw the premature posting of the All Star Ballot and our Red Sox players on it. While my first shudder may have been seeing our candidate for Catcher pictured beautifully in the lower left corner, and I can see the perennial All-Stars the Red Sox are likely to end up with in this summer's classic: Dustin Pedroia at 2B, Adrian Gonzalez at 1B, Carl Crawford in LF... perhaps Kevin Youkilis at 3B? Maybe even Ellsbury in CF or Drew in RF?

However, the true test of our Red Sox fan base will be the successful election of our starting SS. No, not that Marco Scutaro guy that's pictured and on the official ballot. (Yes, I know all he's done for the team, and do think he's a hell of a player.) For my money, though, we're going to have to vote early, and vote often for our All-Star starting SS: Jed Lowrie.

So... let's get the campaign underway. I realize it's going to be a tough one: write in campaigns are rarely successful (except for that fun one up in Alaska last November)... but we owe it to the man who turned our season around. (Okay, a little overstated... but still...)

Write in Jed Lowrie!!

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Is the surely common mistake of writing him in as 'Jed Williams' going to be the hanging chad of the 2011 MLB All-Star campaign?

I believe so.

"We are not normal, We are Legends. People will tell their kids about us." - Deon Butler before Ohio State Game 2008.

by Rogue Nine on Apr 26, 2011 5:56 PM EDT reply actions

Ha ha ha!

I like this so much, I almost want to campaign for him as Jed Williams, and watch what MLB does when Jed Williams wins the spot at SS.

by AlohaSox on Apr 26, 2011 6:14 PM EDT reply actions

I'm in

I’m pretty sure Derek Jeter could have an OPS of .300 and 40 errors and still be named the starter, but if Tito figures out who the starting shortstop ought to be and Lowrie gets enough votes, he might get enough attention to be named a sub.

by RSNexile on Apr 26, 2011 7:46 PM EDT reply actions

Jeter, you say?

I think I’ve heard of him, but it something intangible.

by AlohaSox on Apr 26, 2011 8:09 PM EDT up reply actions

"it's something intangible."

Typing fail.

by AlohaSox on Apr 26, 2011 8:09 PM EDT up reply actions

Intangible or unintelligible?

by RSNexile on Apr 26, 2011 8:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Just to be clear, the unintelligible bit isn’t a reflection of your typing fail, but rather the idea that Jeter is a good shortstop.

by RSNexile on Apr 26, 2011 8:24 PM EDT up reply actions

Whereas I was trying to make a play on Jeter's intangibles.

by AlohaSox on Apr 26, 2011 9:43 PM EDT up reply actions

I certainly got that

I just didn’t want anyone to mistake my comment to mean that your comment on Jeter’s so-called “intangibles” was unintelligible — it’s the idea of Jeter’s intangibles that is unintelligible.

by RSNexile on Apr 26, 2011 10:34 PM EDT up reply actions

Much like Jeter's intangibles attempting to make a play on a ball in the hole at short...

… is unintelligible.

by AlohaSox on Apr 26, 2011 11:23 PM EDT up reply actions

voted 25 times for him

I guess we could all just make 50 emails each, and vote 25 times for him from each one… That’d help his cause

Theo, if you are reading this, please release Dice-K. Your joke on the Boston people isn't funny.

by outofleftfield on Apr 27, 2011 3:37 AM EDT reply actions

I have two email addresses already, and have historically cast 50 ballots.

Therefore… I don’t see any reason why I cannot cast 50 write in votes for Jed this year.

by AlohaSox on Apr 28, 2011 4:52 PM EDT up reply actions

This

http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=ss&stats=bat&lg=al&qual=n&type=8&season=2011&month=0&season1=2011&ind=0

Winning the wRC+ battle by 38 over the next guy

by BobZupcic on Apr 27, 2011 11:17 AM EDT reply actions

I filled out a ballot surely so that

I could give Jed my 25 votes.

by wolf9309 on Apr 27, 2011 12:50 PM EDT reply actions

Does anyone know if you get an error for putting in a player who doesn't exist?

I want to use my write-in votes on the NL side for He Who Is Death, the Dark God Aberran.

He plays for the Phillies.

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by TheLoneDavid on Apr 28, 2011 4:40 PM EDT reply actions

No idea.

Like I said above… almost tempted to enter Jed Williams and see if we could get a big enough campaign to get him the win, and then watch MLB try to figure out what to do with that selection.

I mean, as discussed in yesterday’s game thread… if fans can vote Peyton Hillis for the cover of Madden 2012, is there any doubt we could organize a campaign to vote for Jed Williams?

by AlohaSox on Apr 28, 2011 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions