On Monday, Major League Baseball released its sixth voting update for this year’s All-Star Game and thankfully, it looks as though The Great Kansas City Ponzi Scheme of 2015 is beginning to come unraveled at the seams. Somewhat.
Amidst aggressive Royals fans trying to stuff the ballot boxes like Franklin Delano Roosevelt trying to pack the Supreme Court, Kansas City boasted an absurd EIGHT players leading the voting for their respective positions when the fourth update was released on June 15. In fact, reigning AL MVP Mike Trout was the only non-Royal to lead the voting for his position at the time, resulting in cries of voter fraud, pitchforks being raised, and ultimately MLB cancelling over 60 million votes due to concerns of illegal voting practices.
After the fifth update on June 22 that saw Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera surge ahead of the Royals’ Eric Hosmer at the first base position, Monday’s most recent update saw two more Royals lose their footing atop the voting leaderboard, providing yet another blow to Kansas City’s delusions of All-Star Game hegemony.
Here is the latest AL voting update for the #ASG: pic.twitter.com/RohHCkw1Qy
— MLB Communications (@MLB_PR) June 29, 2015
As you can see above, not only has Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson overtaken Kansas City’s Mike Moustakas, but he has also opened up a sizable lead of 1,365,338 votes. Additionally, Royals designated hitter Kendrys Morales has been surpassed by Nelson Cruz of the Seattle Mariners, while Cabrera’s lead over Hosmer at first has grown even further to 2,443,610 votes. Not to mention, Jose Altuve is quickly gaining ground on Omar “Mr .237/.243/.320 Season Slash Line” Infante at the second base position as the Astros put on the full-court press.
In the words of Batman, “Justice always prevails.” Though I’m not entirely sure if Batman actually said that and I’m not entirely sure if having “only” five Royals starting this year’s All-Star Game actually qualifies as justice. Oh well. Just keep voting, everyone!!!
