Cervelli's All Star Bid
by YankeesRock on Apr 29, 2010 9:42 AM EDT
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The MLB.com All Star ballot is up, and Francisco Cervelli, aka God, needs your help! We all know that he's the best catcher in the American League, but the rest of the baseball world needs some convincing. Cervelli is hitting well over .400 and has an OPS greater than 1.000. Those look like All Star numbers to me. However, he faces stiff competition. Last year, Joe Mauer received over 4.3 million votes en route to becoming the starting catcher for the AL at the ASG. In order to beat him soundly, we need Cervelli to get about 5 million votes.
The All Star Game is on July 13th. I don't know when voting ends, but we'll assume that it's at least a week before that. That gives us 69 days to submit 5 million votes, or about 72,500 votes per day. 25 votes are allowed per email address, meaning we will need 200,000 email addresses.
Here's how voting works:
Go to MLB.com and click on the All Star Game banner at the top of the page. In order to vote, you'll need to enter a valid email address, your zip code, your birthdate, and the security code. You'll also probably want to uncheck the box which asks if they can send you promotional emails (checked by default) unless you're using a disposable email address (more on that later).
Now, proceed to fill out the voting form. Choose the circles next to your favorite players (or all the Yankees starters), but do not select any of the AL catchers. You can only pick one player at each position except outfield, where you can pick three. Now, at the bottom of the form, there is a write-in box. Write in "Francisco Cervelli" and select Yankees and Catcher from the team and position drop-down lists. Continue on to the NL form, where you can select whoever you want (preferably terrible players to give us a better chance of winning home field advantage in the World Series, or just the entire Pirates team for amusement). Submit your ballot, and it will display it with the option of voting again.
Voting again is extremely easy. The entire form will be already filled out for you except for the security code, so all you have to do is type it in and uncheck the promotions box if you wish and then click through it. It shouldn't take more than a couple minutes to use up all of your 25 votes.
Now, once you've used up your 25 votes, you will need to create a new email address. This shouldn't take very long, either. There are numerous websites which will generate a temporary, but valid email address. My personal favorite is www.fakenamegenerator.com simply because it will also generate a name, birth date, address, and other information. This will give you a whole new set of information to use. Head on over to MLB.com and repeat the entire process.
We need 2900 people vote 25 times every day until the All Star Game. Obviously, voting more than that would be great, as would recruiting additional people to the cause. It shouldn't take more than 10 minutes a day to get in your 25 votes. You can do it during commercial breaks if you're watching the game. It may seem unrealistic, but remember that a team of only about a dozen rigged TIME's annual online poll to determine the 100 most influential people in the world. And they arranged the entire top 21.
These votes will not just benefit Cervelli. Assuming that the majority of us vote for Yankees on the rest of the ballot, we will probably see Jeter, A-Rod, Cano, Tex, Granderson, and others with highly inflated vote totals as well. Which means, of course, that the AL All-Star team will basically be the Yankees with less suck (no Winn on the bench).
Here's to seeing Cervelli behind the plate for the first pitch of the bottom of the first inning in the 2010 All Star Game. May His will be done.
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UPDATE: Powervoting
This may be easier than we thought. There is a way to bypass the security codes. After voting once, instead of clicking the "Vote again" link, just refresh using F5. Since your form entries are entirely contained within the URL, it will submit the form again. Wait for the page to load before refreshing again to make sure it counts. Count to 25 (or 30 to be safe), then click the Vote again link, type in a new email address, zip code, and birth date, type in the security code, click through, and start refreshing. It's now possible to vote 25 times in about a minute if you have a decent internet connection.
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I’m putting this on my to-do list for future ball games.
"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."
I'm on it!
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by SteveBalboniHOF on Apr 29, 2010 12:11 AM EDT reply actions
Just voted 25 times from my first email address
took all of 5 minutes.
I’m going to try do 25 votes a day. Let’s go everybody, get on board, it’s really easy!
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Just upped it to 100 votes today for the almighty Cervelli
Used the generator that he linked to in the fanpost.
It’s excellent and very easy to use. Each vote takes less than 10 seconds if you’re reasonably good at punching in 5 digit codes.
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This is probably the best possible way to keep all the get- a-lifers off the street and out of serious trouble. Go for it.
by designatedquitter on Apr 29, 2010 10:13 AM EDT reply actions
def the best idea ive ever heard
ill get on it today hopefulyl i can get off a couple rounds of 25 votes
This is quite amusing, but if some morons actually do what
you suggest, all they’ll be doing is hurting Jorge’s chances of making the team. But maybe that’s what you really want.
Jorge will get the votes at the Stadium.
"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."
Exactly.
"It ain't like he brought it from home." -Derek Jeter
by WhatwouldJeterdo on Apr 29, 2010 12:15 PM EDT up reply actions
What's really sad is that someone promoted this nonsense post
to the front page.
You should be careful
if you fall of your high horse you might break your wrist.
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by Lord Duggan on Apr 29, 2010 10:57 AM EDT up reply actions
I find the Cervelli love hilarious.
I think passion for this team and its players is important.
I promote fan posts that are especially interesting and entertaining.
When your write and articulate and entertaining post that garners multiple rec’s, I promise I will frontpage your work too.
"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."
I hope Cervelli allows you to remove the stick from that most uncomfortable place soon...
"It ain't like he brought it from home." -Derek Jeter
by WhatwouldJeterdo on Apr 29, 2010 12:15 PM EDT up reply actions
This is why
Fan voting for the All-Star Game gets ridiculous. We all love Cervelli, but you guys can’t be serious about trying to turn the thing into a joke like that.
I happen to agree that I’m not thrilled with us being out there advocating this nonsense.
I look at it as a double positive
1) Maybe Cervelli wins, but probably doesn’t but it’s funny cuz he got way more votes than he should.
2) Ballot stuffing (and how easy it is) might encourage MLB to get rid of fan voting (which sucks)
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by Lord Duggan on Apr 29, 2010 1:38 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Relax
The best this can do is get Cisco the Kid some recognition. It is all in good fun and team loyalty.
by HappyLuckyGoldenDragonNumber1! on Apr 29, 2010 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm with you
I understand all the complaints about All Star voting raised above, but it still should mean something. As much as I love Cervelli (I do take Sundays off in his honor, after all), he’s not one of the best catchers in the league, and shouldn’t be at the ASG.
by long time listener on Apr 29, 2010 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions
The ASG has always largely been a popularity and not the-most-talented contest. If that wasn’t the case, why must there be a Pirates player represented at the game every year? Because Selig had invoked this rule, I don’t take the ASG very seriously.
by Scooby Snacks on Apr 29, 2010 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions
It's like when Yao Ming is the starting center every year for the West in the NBA ASG
because he gets 32030402103 Asian votes. He’s not the best center, but it’s what the fans want.
The game should be for the fans. If this could be a small step in returning it to that (read: no WS home field advantage, just play for fun and the honor) that would be absolutely terrific.
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I like the WS home field advantage
Means it won’t be a phoned in dog and pony show
by HappyLuckyGoldenDragonNumber1! on Apr 29, 2010 5:55 PM EDT up reply actions
If that was the reason, there is no reason to promptly pull your starting pitcher after hurling two perfect innings against six of the best hitters in the opposing league.
by Scooby Snacks on Apr 29, 2010 5:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Well its a balance you want to get all the players playing time
But actually care about winning the game. No one likes watching games that have no meaning whatsoever. Even spring training games mean something as an evaluation tool for the fans and teams. I like that there is some WORTH to the game above the pomp and circumstance.
by HappyLuckyGoldenDragonNumber1! on Apr 29, 2010 6:08 PM EDT up reply actions
don't forget about Yi
they had to take that pile off the ballot cuz he got so many votes
by FreeBradshaw on Apr 29, 2010 6:16 PM EDT up reply actions
For the record
I voted once for Cervelli, once for Mauer, and once for Posada. That’s not “nonsense”, is it Ed? That’s socialism, spreading the wealth…
Acually, I'm pretty sure socialism IS nonsense
If you catch my drift.
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Well when I was a kid, community colleges
in NYC were free— socialism rules.
That having been said, I am in favor of cheating to get Cervelli in the All Star Game!
And the “serious, sober” responses are what convinced me, haha.
Cervelli to teh ASG!
150 votes per day minimum!
Atta boy
be sure to read the update he put at the bottom. Makes it so much easier. I just did 100 in like 5 minutes.
It’s funny because all of my ballots so far have also included all of the Pirates starters……
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Yeah I just saw that. I’ll be doing power-voting from here on out. Are we sure that this method works?
by Scooby Snacks on Apr 29, 2010 2:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Yes it works
I did the F5 reload 25 times, and then tried to vote again with the same email address just to see if it worked, and it said “You have already voted the maximum number of times” so that tells me it’s working.
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I've done 100-ish for Cervelli since last night.
It’s reading day here, might as well spend it voting.
"It ain't like he brought it from home." -Derek Jeter
by WhatwouldJeterdo on Apr 29, 2010 2:28 PM EDT reply actions
this could be fun to try
but I hope it doesn’t end with Jorge getting Naderized out of the All-Star Game
probably not, but
Jorge: .316/.400/.649
Mauer: 327/.408/.484
Mauer’s numbers are slightly better (though you have to like that SLG%), but they are comparable enough in the early going that if Posada continues to rake, it is conceivable he could mount a challenge. There would have to be some serious fan campaigning, though.
No we really need to spread this news to other blog sites.
RAB and LoHud have large audiences, that could potentially make or break it.
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FYI
I did the “power voting” with my personal email address last night. After 25 it said my votes were maxed out.
This morning, I followed the link back to the ballot and successfully cast another vote.
I suspect that your “power votes” are (rightly) being flagged and discarded by the computer system or an operator.
"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."
Or maybe they are only limiting 25 votes per email address per set time frame. Just now, I’ve unsuccessfully tried to use a real email (by “manual” voting) and fake one (power voting) from yesterday and they’re both still maxed out.
by Scooby Snacks on Apr 30, 2010 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions
Not until MLB publishes its listings.
by Scooby Snacks on Apr 30, 2010 10:58 AM EDT up reply actions
Cervelli
First off I have voted around 1500 times for Cervelli with the power voting and fake name generator. Secondly, for those who are worried about Posada being snubbed wouldn’t you rather at this stage in Posada’s career that he get the weekend off to rest rather than flying out to Anaheim and participating in this more or less meaningless game? Let Posada focus on winning rings and not winning popularity contests.
true
and if he continues the way he’s been playing, Joe’s going to pick him anyway. All-Star selections are good for the HOF, though. In any case, this whole endeavor is harmless, because no one would be “power-voting” for Jorge if they weren’t doing it for Frankie. If it’s close between him and Mauer as the time nears though, we should shift our efforts
Count me in: 75 votes for Mr. Cervelli
I used 3 different emails to do my deed. I slightly misspelled his name as Cervilli for 25 of the times; hope those votes are not disqualified.
by alansaltnpepper on Apr 30, 2010 11:57 PM EDT reply actions
I just added 125 votes
using 5 different email addresses.
If someone really wanted to, they could vote an ulimited number of times for him. Just keep making new emails on Gmail and Yahoo, and then using them to vote. It would take a while, but someone alone could add 1000-2000 votes for him.
it is conceivable
that the e-mail addresses aren’t the only factor that the voting process might look at for validating votes. They could use an ip address to disqualify any votes cast beyond 25 per day, since they probably know that people might do what the fan post author (and some of the other fans) are doing.
I wouldn’t put it past MLB to have a back-up validation system in place beyond the e-mail address qualifier.
You guys have fun trying, though! :) I wish you the best of luck achieving your goal. I don’t vote for the AS game anymore because I don’t agree with the whole selection process and the fact that the winning league gets home field advantage in the WS regardless of their season record. My personal choice, though.
Bad news
The “power voting” method will not work.
I got the scoop today from a MLB.com senior quality assurance manager that you must have a generated unique URL ID (by entering the captcha code prior to each ballot cast) in order to have each ballot casted to be counted/valid in MLB’s system.
I probably blew up the idea first...
with my Indians voting.
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by SteveBalboniHOF on May 4, 2010 12:23 AM EDT up reply actions
Damn
That really ruins the best idea of using the Firefox addon ‘ReloadEvery’ to continuously reload the page every five seconds while the page is up and the computer is running.
"Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."
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ALL STAR
Tonight’s game proves why Cervelli should be a All Star: he made an amazing play, had a stand up triple, beat out a bunt, and the games only in the 6th inning!
The Cervelli Game
That’s what they’re going to be calling it when they edit that game for Yankees Classics some time around September.
He started off being one of the foci of the broadcast just because Posada was out with a calf, as they say, and immediately hit that triple, his career first, which gave Kay and Leiter something to talk about besides each other. The trend for the rest of the broadcast was them mentioning his name, followed by him doing something impressive. Leiter mentions how A.J.‘s BA with Cervelli catching was .083, C makes a big stop that prevents a run scoring from 3rd and follows that up with a diving catch over the home dugout fence; they talk about the energy he and the other young guys add, and how he’s always planning with the coaches, he beats out a bunt single.
Even when he was just waiting for an opportunity to score at 3rd base, ARod manages to almost drill him with two foul balls. He moved Gardner over on his sac bunt, allowing him to score on a weak sac fly… last night was Cervelli’s game.
This will be epic
"Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps."- Tiger Woods
by RolliePollieKovy on May 8, 2010 10:47 AM EDT reply actions
here's another feather
for the All-Star campaign. Add this game to the Cervelli “Yankee Classics” DVD.
Think of how surprised he would be. haha
Scientific research has proven that you lose exactly 5.37 billion brain cells every time you listen to Todd McShay.
by TheRealSlimShady on May 8, 2010 11:31 PM EDT reply actions
He'd have to come here and thank us all himself.
But Free is right, he’s doing a lot to make a case for himself on his own. I’ve been impressed.
"It ain't like he brought it from home." -Derek Jeter
by WhatwouldJeterdo on May 10, 2010 1:49 AM EDT up reply actions
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