All Stars and Blue Jays

Currently the Phillies have 3 players set to start in the All-Star Game coming up in less than a month. Utley, Rollins, and Ibanez all lead the voting at their respective positions. If you voted, well done. I personally voted the maximum 25 times each with two different email addresses. If you haven't voted yet, there is still work to be done.
Howard doesn't really have a chance at 1st base. The game is in St. Louis and Howard is losing to Pujols by over a million votes. So vote for Howard, but don't worry about it too much.
Utley has 2nd base locked up, but he currently is the leading vote-getter for the entire NL by about 125,000 votes. Vote for him to keep it that way.
Pedro Feliz is having the best season of his career, and an All-Star selection would be a great way to celebrate that. He's currently in 4th for 3rd basemen. Although first place is a long shot, David Wright of the Mets is in first, so it's worth your votes if for no other reason than to disrespect Mets players
Rollins is leading the shortstop balloting but by just 88,000 votes. As much as he doesn't deserve to start in the All-Star game, it would be cool to have as many starters as we can get. So vote for Jimmy.
At catcher, Carlos Ruiz is 4th in the voting, but he's down by just over 200,000 votes and he deserves to be an All-Star this season. Anything is possible, so vote for Chooch.
Ibanez has an outfield spot all but locked up, but Shane Victorino is in 5th, 250,000 votes behind third place Carlos Beltran of the Mets. Once again, hate the Mets, vote for Shane.

Everyone should vote if you haven't already. Three starters is great, but now our goal should be to get at least 4. So go to this site and VOTE! http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/all_star/y2009/ballot_reg.html

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As for tonight's game.
We are facing a rookie left-handed pitcher, something that usually gives us some problems. Ricky Romero is 3-3 this season but has a 3.71 ERA. I think we'll either have him out of the game by the 5th inning, or else he'll pitch 7 or 8 and maybe give up 1 run. Let's hope for the former, but with Hamels pitching for us I wouldn't be surprised to lose this game 2-1 on solo home runs.

With all of this being said, the Blue Jays are tanking since they started out the season very hot. They have the worst record in the AL since May 19. They have played 6 interleague games this season, all against the NL East, and they haven't won a single one of them. I don't know if all of this really means anything for our series, but I think we should be able to keep these trends going. Besides, they're from Canada.