ESPN MLB All-Star Game 2007

I never watch the All-Star Game. I don't really care that much who goes and who doesn't; the biggest real-world impact is that players who are selected nearly all get All-Star bonuses of $25,000 or more, which is a nice extra paycheck to a player making the minimum salary. The World Series home-field advantage bit is silly, and it hasn't made any difference in the past three Fall Classics, anyway. So all of this is a bit of overanalysis of two rosters that always are going to be constructed at least a little bit wrongly. With that in mind, here are the worst snubs and inclusions, as well as a look at the token players selected to fill the rule that each team must have at least one representative in the game.

There are so many things wrong here that I don't know where to begin.

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