MLB All-Star Voting

Evidence of how ridiculous fans voting for the baseball All-Star teams can become, this article reports that Derek Jeter has overtaken Boston's Nomar Garciaparra in voting for the starting AL shortstop in next month's All-Star game.

Jeter, who slumped for much of the first two months of the season, has 488,815 votes to 479,814 for Garciaparra in totals released Tuesday by the commissioner's office.

Garciaparra, who has been on the disabled list since the start of the season, is on a rehabilitation assignment at Triple-A Pawtucket and could be activated soon.

Got that? Jeter, who is hitting all of .233 leads Garciaparra by a few thousand votes. And Garciaparra hasn't played in a single game yet this year! They must be stuffing those ballot boxes in New York and Boston.