Cubs score big for the All-star game
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Your favorite Cub is in all likelihood going to represent the National League in the all-star game on July 15. Alfonso Soriano, Kosuke Fukudome, and Geovany Soto were all voted in by the fans as starters for the game. Ryan Dempster, Kerry Wood, and Aramis Ramirez were all selected by their fellow players, and Carlos Zambrano was tabbed by Rockies manager Clint Hurdle.
That's seven Cubs who will take part in the All-Star game. (I do think it's curious that Carlos Zambrano was not voted in by his fellow players. Perhaps they feel like his mound antics are too much.) Seven Cubs... that's nearly a third of the active roster. Pretty spectacular. The only Cubs that might have received consideration, but didn't make it were Derrek Lee and Carlos Marmol.
In other news, ticket sales are apparently doing quite well for the Ryne Sandberg Peoria Cubs game to be played at Wrigley Field on July 29th. I had reported earlier that the Cubs were only selling tickets for the bottom deck at Wrigley, but this week they announced that they were beginning to sell tickets in the upper deck. Consequently, you can now get in the gates of Wrigley Field for only $5.
Posted by Byron at July 6, 2008 4:24 PM
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