Number of teams with more All-Stars than the Detroit Tigers: 8
Number of teams with more wins than the Detroit Tigers: 0

This is just ridiculous. You can't tell me that more BLUE JAYS have been better than the best Tigers. Verlander should have gotten in for sure. He has 10 wins before the All-Star break, the most for a rookie since 2002. That problem, at least, can be corrected if the fans wise up and vote him in as the final player. Do your part over at MLB.com.

But it goes beyond that. The only thing keeping Magglio Ordonez off the team is his feud with Ozzie Guillen, manager of the AL squad. There's no way Michael Young deserves a shortstop reserve spot more than Carlos Guillen. Heck, I think the case could even be made for Placido Palanco to join the team over Seattle's Jose Lopez.

And don't get me started on the piching. Sure Mariano Rivera and Jonathan Papelbon are having stellar years, but Joel Zumaya and Fernando Rodney both deserve the nod over Chicago's Bobby Jenks. (Gee, you think Guillen is stuffing the team with his own players? Never!) Nate Robertson's 3.35 ERA and Jeremy Bondermans 107 strikeouts probably belong at the game, but I'm at least willing to be reasonable.

The bottom line is this: The best team in baseball should have more All-Stars than just about anybody.

At the end of the day, however, I'm OK with this. Sure, I'll root my head off when Kenny Rogers comes in to strikeout the side with Pudge Rodriguez doing the catching. But don't think Detroit it going to forget this. Not when the powers that be of baseball decide that the "cute" Tigers don't deserve any recognition for their brilliant first half.

At the end of the day, All-Star games are nice. But this is just going to be motivation t continue the march to the games that count - the ones in October.