Kansas City Royals: Stop Getting Mad About All-Star Voting

The Kansas City Royals have been in the thick of conversations lately, but before the whole incident on Tuesday, a lot of it revolved around the All-Star voting and how the Royals once again are dominating the results.

Think back to this time last summer and it’s not difficult to remember the outrage the rest of Major League Baseball had over the Kansas City Royals fan base actually voting for their players to make it to the big game.

The biggest joke of all of that was that Omar Infante led the American League at second base for a large portion of the voting period. Eventually, Jose Altuve passed him (and rightfully so), but it was an event that for some reason brought a negative light on Royals fans.

While I’m obviously a tad biased seeing how the Royals are my team, I don’t understand why other MLB fan bases are giving the Royals fans so much crap.

For one, they have the capability of getting online and voting for their favorite players just as much as Royals fans do. This isn’t selective to just people who root for the KC Royals, you know.

The funniest part of all of this is that the Chicago Cubs fans are literally doing the exact same thing and haven’t merited the same type of heat that the Royals did last year and this year.

Second, other fans shouldn’t be getting mad at Royals fans, they should be mad at the All-Star Game voting system.

As long as MLB allows the fans to vote, then the All-Star Game is going to continue to be a popularity contest and not necessarily who deserves to go the most. That’s evidenced once again by Infante currently placing in second for second basemen in the AL.

Now is that not to say that no Royals deserve to go? Absolutely not. Lorenzo Cain, Eric Hosmer, and Salvador Perez definitely deserve a trip to San Diego this year (and they’d currently be starters if the voting ended today).

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Neil Greenberg of The Washington Post chimed in on this matter, even titling his post “Lots of Royals could be all-star starters, but only two deserve to be there”.

First of all, why’s a guy from The Washington Post so fixated on the Kansas City Royals? Second, Greenberg spends a good chunk of the article slamming Perez and calling him an ineffective offensive piece. Okay then.

The funniest part of all of this is that the Chicago Cubs fans are literally doing the exact same thing and haven’t merited the same type of heat that the Royals did last year and this year.

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Now granted, the Cubs are the best team in baseball right now and guys like Ben Zobrist and Kris Bryant are straight up crushing at the plate, but Cain, Hosmer, and Perez are all doing well too, and none seem to be getting their props from outside of Kansas City.

So I ask… Can we please stop slandering the fanbases for doing what MLB is allowing them to do? If you have an issue with the way the All-Star Game voting is going down, then blame it on the system, not on the fans or on the teams.

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