How Did Ronel Blanco Get Snubbed From The All-Star Game?

Just recently, the league announced their pitchers and reserves for the 2024 MLB All-Star game approaching next Tuesday. The Astros have named three players for the game: Tucker, Altuve, and Alvarez. Many wonder as to how Ronel was snubbed regarding his phenomenal performance this season starting.  

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Back in action tomorrow at Minim Parkagainst the Marlins. All Star teams
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two five seven ninety the number tojoin. Chris, Are you in Florida
right now? I am not.I am actually at home in Arkansas,
just worried about all my people inHouston. I just want to give a
shout out to y'all for working duringthe hurricane. That's definitely an excuse to
not work. I hope y'all aresafe, but I just wanted to call

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and uh, because I I youknow, yesterday I was on the boat
and I saw the the All Starlineup and how Scott and Blanco did not
make it when they were not evensupposed to be on the roster. They
were on there because of injuries,and they have pitched better than anybody on
that team or in the league,I think, so it really it really

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rubbed me the wrong way that theyweren't on the All Star team. So
but I'm gonna hang up and listento y'all's reaction on that. Christy,
Chris, thank you for checking in. Very nice compliment, and you are
one spot on they were during springtraining. Would have had to fight to
make a roster spot where they were. Blanco, no doubt a better shot

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then, but there was no room. There's no room and not only do
make the roster. He's been theirmost consistent, best picture, no question
deserved it. And then Scott,like I said, he's been the He's
the picture of a journeyman in thedictionary. And sometimes you just never know
where it's going to click, andit is clicked here, and I can

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make an argument you could choose eitherone of those guys as your full season,
even though they don't play every day, and give them some kind of
an award, an MVP award,or whatever it is you do to both
those guys. They've been outstanding.Goodness that better than you did. My
man, you you are spot on. Snubs sometimes are overrated because we played

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the homework card. If you're sittingin Pittsburgh, or you're sitting in Arlington,
you're sitting in Seattle, you're sittingin Minnesota, Boston, you damn
well know that those two guys deserveto make the All Star team absolutely period.
A lot of times like oh youdid, Come on, man,
two guys are equal. You don'tgive a guy a less than five hundred

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record who wouldn't have just been theonly All Star representative a spot on a
team where the best pitcher on theteam that's two games out of first place
and has had all these injuries overin Nel Blanco period makes you it makes
you almost feel like it's personal,you know what I'm saying, Like this
is just a dig on the Astros. I hope it's not. But if

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two guys ever deserved it, andconsidering that they're where their careers have been
and where they've brought them to andwhat they've done, yeah, this is
I'm as pissed off about this asI am about the home run yesterday.
I am. I know it's aloss in the All Star Games and an
exhibition, but I can tell youright now, to Scott and to Renel

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Blanco, no matter what they tellyou deep down in places they may never
talk to you about, that hasto hurt deep because you never know how
many times you're gonna make an AllStar team, and that's telling you,
for that year you were one ofthe best players in baseball. And they
both deserve it. So while itmay not be the win matters more in
the big scheme of things, butsomewhere along the line, both these guys

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are gonna say man, and whoknows what kind of seasons they are gonna
have next year or the year after. I'm a big guy on rewarding guys
for what they did, not fortheir Lifetime Achievement award, and both these
guys this year should have been rewardedwith an All Star birth Yeah, I'm
gonna say it again. Cole Reagan'sselected by Major League Baseball for the ALE
All Star Team five and six witha three point two to eight e er

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Renel Blanco eight and three with atwo point five to three a e r
A. You can't tell me,and you can't sit here and say,
oh, Cole Reagan's is on abad team. The Kansas City Royals are
forty nine and forty three right theretrying to hunt down the Cleveland Guardians and
Minnesota Twins in that al central andBobby on it. So it's not like

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he would have been your only representative. Yeah, Kansas City Royals are a
game and a half back of thewild Card. They are forty nine and
forty three, the Astals of fortysix and forty four. I don't want
to hear it. It's criminal.It is absolutely criminal that Cole Reagan's was
selected over Anel Bloco. It's BS. I almost dropped it. I almost
set it ridiculous. Man. Idon't know what Major League Baseball needs to

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do to have their voting revamped,just like their Hall of Fame process,
but something's got to change. Andalso you saw it, did you see
by chance the uh, the rulesthat they kind of tweaked some rules for
the home run derby, so youget a maximum amount of cuts now during
the home run derby rather than justgoing back to the old school way.

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Nope, didn't see it. I'mabout home run derby. It out.
Once you tell me they have aluminumbatch with the home runner we all go
back to paying attention to it again. Gunner Henderson's gonna be in it.
You have Alec Bohm, Pete Alonzo. How many has he done? Pete
Alonzo loves that and that's like hisbaby. He frigging loves it. I

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mean he's done. Seems like he'sdone like five of them, right,
gotta be more than that. Oh, they made some It's aimed at reducing
frantic pace, so you'll have let'ssee, you get a maximum amount of
what forty cuts? I believe fortyehoh wait, that's that's the average.

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Yeah, maximum of forty pitches I'msorry, So what does that mean?
So you get forty pitches, there'sno time clock on them now, No,
So within each player's timed around,the hitter is gonna see a maximum
of forty pitches, similar to howthere is a maximum number of basketball shots
in the NBA three point Contest.But so there is still a time round,
correct, Yeah, but is theremore time in it? No,
there's the same time okay, Sothen how is that maximizing their I'm trying

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to figure what are you putting morepressure on the picture? What suggest What
does that help? The hitters havethree minutes in each of the first two
rounds and two minutes in the championshipround. I guess it's gonna it's to
make them not be as frantic withthe accelerated pace. So you're trying to

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the same time zone, yeah,same time okay, So what if you
only get twenty eight swings in becauseyou're taking your time? That's on I
guess the way they look at it, that's on you. I don't like
the timed round. I did itfirst, I'm over it now. I
miss watching Mark McGuire hit four underand fifty foot bombs in where we can
actually admire it and just look andhave Chris Berman go back back back back,
back, back back. Gone.I miss that the majestic bombs.

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I don't miss the back back,back, back back. I've heard that
enough. I mean, has astray Chris Burn. No, it's not
on Burman, Okay, it's justit's on the home run. It's great,
but it's great the first few times. I don't need it for every
home run call. That's my pointwhere it's like seventy five times, I
I I would little much for me. I would rather hear that than what

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you hear now. I love CarlRavach as a studio guy, but as
a play by play guy. Thisthis may sound crazy, but he sucked.
He's annoying as hell, and thefact that he continues to get so
many big games for baseball pisses meoff. I want to ramp it up,
just paying College World Series. Whyam I listening to Carl ravage the
CORL World's College World Series. PutGus Johnson on the home run, would

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you imagine? Yeah? You mightas well put Joel Klatt over there too.
It'd be a classic man watching himdo it. But there why I
love and I do. I lovehim, but back back, back,
back back. I get why youwant it more now, but after a
while, it's like every home rundoesn't have to be back backpack. There
can be you know what I'm saying. I think it got to the players
like him, I mean EDWARDO Perez, like on the come on, man,

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little fatigue when it's like it's fatiguewith all of it, right,
I just I know we got togo to break, but man, I
something else got to spice them.So I'm still trying to figure out what
you're telling me. Aren't you stillfrantic with forty I meant maximum forty swings?
Yeah, so you because if youtake more time in between swings,
you're not going to get to yourmaximum forty. You want to beat the
other guy anyway, right, Sowhat if you're four down with a minute

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to go and you're at twenty fiveswings? You're going to be frantic?
Are you not? So I don'tunderstand the And now you're putting what more
pressure on the pitcher to throw earlystrikes. I guess you mean, Oh,
you mean the guy who's not aplayer? That guy? Okay,
I got you. Yeah, letme ramp it. Up aluminum bats.
Okay, going on, Listen,a ball coming off the bat at one

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hundred and eighteen hits you in theforehead, or a ball coming off at
one forty eight hit you in thefour They're both gonna hurt. Well,
you know what I mean. Ifyou want to add, we'll get those
dipstick kids off the damn field anyways, right how mey dorks are out there
running around and then they get smackedin the face. Anyways. Yeah,
and if you're in the outfield andyou decide you want to be out there
for a line that's on, youenter at your own risk. If you

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want to see five hundred foot homeruns, you'll see them. Yeah,
you'll see them. That's more aboutdistance than than number out Yeah, you
know what distance. Let them Letthem swing the old B E, S
R bats and not this bs BBcore dude, even aluminum period. He's
gonna go where I want to.But you let him swing the old school
I'm saying, a serious college bats. I'm saying the old B S R

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S dude, six hundred footers,Yeah, just get the but I'm all
for it. Just get the goofykids. And I want a cameraman and
a guy out and beyond the left, both walls where you can see in
the lands in the parking lot.Yeah, how many windshields? It chatters.
Yeah, that's what I want tosay. Put buster on these dork
ass out there. See if you'vegot a lot of a lot of strays
from you on some dorks. Yeah, there are a lot of dorks out

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there, you know what I mean? One of them? Whoa it is?
Though? Dude? Is dork agood thing? No? Some girl,
some ladies, some of the zoidslike dorks, do they? Yeah,
that's what I did. Word onthe street Triple E can't confirm.
Okay, well, I guess that'show we got to get to break.
That was the steakout. I mean, damn, I don't know what's going
on. Let's get to break andlet's look at the updated Major League standings next