Clueless fans ruin All-Star game again

You want the Major League All-Star game to count, Bud Selig?
You really want the players to take this glorified exhibition seriously? You want to add real stakes to the outcome, like home field advantage in the World Series to the winning league?
Please end the joke that is fan voting. Please get rid of the stupid idea that every team must be represented. Because those ideas are old, and they're tired, and they're offensive to every baseball fan who actually pays attention to the game. Just because Pink Hat Nation can stuff the ballot box and force seven Boston Red Sox into the game doesn't mean that they belong there.
And this is where I get conflicted, because I love the Red Sox and have followed them my whole life. But my favorite team has been hijacked by a bunch of bandwagon fans in recent years who put on their rose-colored glasses and respond to every email sent out by redsox.com to push Jason Varitek, Kevin Youkilis or Dustin Pedroia into the starting nine at Yankee Stadium.
Boston isn't alone in harboring these fools. The Chicago Cubs have plenty of dopes voting for their players, as evidenced by the fact that they managed to put seven players on the National League roster and have three starters coming to New York. Large-market teams with huge fan bases are able to dominate the voting thanks to up to 25 votes per fan, online or at the ballpark, leaving deserving players from small teams (Tampa, with only two representatives despite the best record in baseball, springs to mind) sitting at home on the couch.
Let's start in the AL. Ian Kinsler is being mentioned as a fringe MVP candidate -- Dustin Pedroia is not. Kinsler has better numbers than Pedroia in just about every offensive category (average, home runs, RBIs, runs scored, etc.). But Kinsler plays in front of friends and family every night in Texas. He had no chance to earn more votes than Pedroia.
The AL outfield brings more outrage. Josh Hamilton is more than legit (.307, 19, 83), but Manny Ramirez (.279, 16, 53) and Ichiro (.304, 3 ,21) aren't even close to Jermaine Dye (.308, 19, 52), Carlos Quentin (.273, 19, 61) or even J.D. Drew (.304, 16, 51). And readers of this blog know that I can't stand Drew, but he's had the best first half of any Red Sox player. He would be their most deserving starter. And let's not even begin a discussion of David Ortiz's inclusion, a man who hasn't played in weeks due to a wrist injury. It's disgraceful that Milton Bradley (.320, 17, 54) wasn't voted to the slot, even with his checkered past or run-ins with fans, players and coaches. He and Hamilton have both mashed the ball this season.
The NL infield features some of the best hitters in the game, but its starting outfield is every bit the joke that the AL's is. The NL has better hitters on the bench (Matt Holliday, Ryan Ludwick, Nate McLouth) than it does in the starting lineup (Kosuke Fukudome, Ryan Braun) and Alfonso Soriano has been hurt for most of the first half. Pat Burrell (.278, 21, 53), Corey Hart (.294, 14, 53), Carlos Lee (.293, 19, 66) and Aaron Rowand (.303, 8, 47) all have two things in common -- they all have better numbers than Fukudome and they are all fighting to just get on the roster, included in the final five players that the idiot fans will vote on to admit just one more player to the game. Any one of those seven players could justifiably start the game. No wonder why the NL can't win.