Every year the baseball world goes nuts arguing about who was “snubbed” by the All-Star selection process and every year within 24 hours of the All-Star game ending no one cares or remembers.
This year Andrew McCutchen, Paul Konerko, and CC Sabathia seem to be the highest-profile cause de celebre, with tons of real and virtual ink spilled over their absence from the All-Star rosters--which already include 34 players instead of the usual 25--but the teeth gnashing hardly ends there.
Here’s just a small sampling of mainstream articles noting/touting a player who was snubbed (seriously, I couldn’t take it any more, so I stopped looking after a few minutes):