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The 2028 All-Star Game will be held as part of Monday's sim and we will (plan on) have a live broadcast of the game right here in this thread!! Game time is tentatively scheduled for 5pm PT/8pm ET. Come one, Come all - bring a beer, hot dog and those non-allergenic peanuts the scientists came up with back in 2022!

All-Star voting is still live, so get out and vote - note you can change your vote if you voted early and feel a need to re-evaluate ~~cough-cough~~Jose~cough-cough~Torres~~cough-cough~~ your vote!!

The cut-off time for the vote will be 8pm PT/11pm ET Sunday night (March 3), with the All-Star rosters possibly posted later that evening...

Awesome. thanks Mike.

I'm still lobbying for Steve Hott. He's dropped his ERA to 5.4 through the month of June and deserves recognition on behalf of the whole Bears' staff that all can't be All-Stars.

Starters
C Tony Parker – CL
1B Alex ‘Red Hook’ Bothwell – OKA
2B Harley Schneider – SS
3B Mike 'Big Whiskey' Britt – AUR
SS Brian Coleman – NT
LF Don ‘Jasper’ Mercer – DUL
CF Jerry Long – SS
RF Paul Carlisle – AUR
DH Rob Raines - FAR
SP Neil Maes – BAK

Subs
C German Hernandez – SS
1B Jose Torres – AUR
INF Gustavo ‘Bullets’ Lopez – FAR
INF Hai-Liang Choe – REN
INF Royce ‘Jester’ Raines – PS
INF Eric Jacobs – DUL
INF Yakamochi Kobayashi – KAL
OF Clarence Carpenter – OKA
OF Tomas Martinez – NT
OF Jerry Rutledge – OKA
OF Lorenzo ‘Stocky’ Castanieda – FAR*

SP John Turner – AUR
SP Yakamochi ‘Zoom Zoom’ Suitani – SS
SP Jim ‘Nitro’ MacCowan – CL
SP Edgardo Guerra – PS
SP George Lee – CAN
RP Hector Rivera – REN
RP Henry Carter – DUL
RP Shinobu Takeuchi - TOY
CL John Gray – AUR
CL Hector Gallo – PS
CL Jonathan Francis – YUM
CL Sadakuno Nakagawa – BAK**

*injury replace. for OF Pat Watson - FAR
**injury replace. for CL Lucio Rodriguez - FAR

Starters
C Marvin Hansen – ARL
1B Felix Zavala – NO
2B Carlos Garza – WV
3B Andy Sharp – FLA
SS Naomi 'Dr. Evil' Honma – SCO
LF Bartolo Mora – KTY
CF Roberto Garcia - NO
RF Claudio ‘Matchbox’ Hernandez – HAV
DH Pedro Rodriguez – KTY
SP Enrique ‘Old Nick’ Vazquez - HAV

Subs
C Jack Hudson – FLA
1B Ira Murdoch – HAV
INF Bill Jones – AMS
INF Dave Crocker – FLA*
INF Tony Cuevas – LON
INF Ricardo ‘Ogre’ Mateo – HAV
INF Alejandor Lujan – WV
INF Luis Cedeno – HAR
OF Danny ‘Hitman’ Burton – FLA
OF Rob Davidson – ARL
OF Alfredo Hinojosa - FLA

SP Hyuung-Jin ‘Cactus’ Kang – NO
SP Oniji ‘Nails’ Yokoyama – WV
SP Kenny Ashley - HAV
SP Motoyuki Hatsutori – ARL
SP Hou Hao – SJ
RP Jose Gomez – SJ
RP Wayne Pryor – HAR
RO Bob Burns - SA
CL Ricardo ‘Puddi’ Perez – HAV
CL Ken ‘Pappy’ Fisher - SCO
CL Alfredo ‘R’ Aranda – KTY
CL Matt Brown - HAR

*injury replace. for OF Jose Guillen

The 2028 PEBA All-Star Game is hosted by the New Orleans Trendsetters at beautiful New Frontier Park on the shores of the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana. This iconic setting, with is tall right-field wall, set against the river, could provide us with a high-scoring match-up between the stars of the Sovereign League and the Imperial League!

Board of the PEBA wrote:The 2028 PEBA All-Star Game is hosted by the New Orleans Trendsetters at beautiful New Frontier Park on the shores of the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana. This iconic setting, with is tall right-field wall, set against the river, could provide us with a high-scoring match-up between the stars of the Sovereign League and the Imperial League!

NFP.png

Lovely ballpark, but wait. That's not New Orleans! There's no mountains visible from New Orleans. No hills either. And look at the Mississippi, it's BELOW the ballpark. But in downtown New Orleans, the river is ABOVE the land, held back (usually) by dikes. No dikes here.

I don't think anyone in Louisiana would recognize this park. Send a photographer down south to get some local photos.

Sovereign League Manager, Paul Woods of the Shin Seiki Evas has announced his line-up for tonights game:

CF Jerry Long, Shin Seiki Evas
LF Don ‘Jasper’ Mercer, Duluth Warriors
RF Paul Carlisle, Aurora Borealis
1B Alex ‘Red Hook’ Bothwell, Okinawa Shisa
3B Mike 'Big Whiskey' Britt, Aurora Borealis
2B Harley Schneider, Shin Seiki Evas
DH Rob Raines, Fargo Dinosaurs
C Tony Parker, Crystal Lake Sandgnats
SS Brian Coleman, Neo-Tokyo Akira

Tonights Starting pitcher will be Neil Maes of the Bakersfield Bears

This will be Jerry Long's 4th All-Star Appearance, also appearing in '27, '25 and '24. Long was the 2025 Royal Raker recipient. Harley Schneider will also be making his second All-Star appearance in a row.
Mike 'Big Whiskey' Britt will be making his 5th All-Star game - his first going all the way back to 2018, with stops in 2020, '22 and '23 - the year he won the Royal Raker. Paul Carlisle is now a 3-time All-Star ('25 and '23) and has already racked up 3-PoW and a PoM award this season.
Don 'Jasper' Mercer is one of the most decorated players in tonights game - now an 8-time All-Star, 2018 Wunderkind Award winner and 2021 Royal Raker Award winner (both while with West Virgina), this will be his second straight All-Star appearance for Duluth.
Alex 'Red Hook' Bothwell will be appearing in his 5th consecutive All-Star game and he was the 2026 Royal Raker. Tony Parker will be making his 3rd straight All-Star appearance. Tonights game will be Brian Coleman's first All-Star appearance. Neil Maes, off to the best season of his career, is making his 4th appearance.
Last, but certainly not least, the most decorated player in tonights game, is Fargo DH Rob Raines, making his 11th All-Star Game. He is a 3-time Royal Raker winner - way, way back in 2013, '14 and '15 while with Arlington.

Also of note, Aurora SP John Turner, after 7-seasons with the Trendsetters, will be making his first All-Star appearance, at his old home. We are told that Turner is slated to take the mound after Maes.

Very excited to have 5 featherheads make the team -- especially crocker who was signed on a bargain bin 1 year contract the day the regular season began. Granted he got in due to an injury but still... we'll take it.

The steve hott snub is going to cause some serious discontent among the steve hott superfans: the hott heads.

Imperial League Manager, Paul Conner of the Kentucky Thoroughbreds, managing the IL for the second consecutive year, has announced his line-up for tonights game:

3B Andy Sharp, Florida Featherheads
2B Carlos Garza, West Virginia Alleghenies
RF Claudio ‘Matchbox’ Hernandez, Havana Leones
LF Bartolo Mora, Kentucky Thoroughbreds
1B Felix Zavala, New Orleans Trendsetters
C Marvin Hansen, Arlington Bureaucrats
DH Pedro Rodriguez, Kentucky Thoroughbreds
CF Roberto Garcia, New Orleans Trendsetters
SS Naomi 'Dr. Evil' Honma, Scottish Claymores

Tonights Starting pitcher will be SP Enrique ‘Old Nick’ Vazquez of the Havana Leones.

Andy Sharp will be making his 4th All-Star appearance and his second in a row. Carlos Garza, a 4-time Minor League All-Star will be making his first PEBA All-Star Game. Havana rookie outfielder Claudio 'Matchbox' Hernandez will be making his first ASG.
Bartolo Mora, the 2026 IL Wunderkind Award winner will be performing in his second straight ASG, while his teammate Pedro Rodriguez, the 2025 Royal Raker Award winner will also be partaking in his second All-Star Game (2025).
Felix Zavala, currently the top hitter in all of the PEBA, will be making his second All-Star game (2025) and his teammate Roberto Garcia makes the All-Star Team for the first time. Also making his first All-Star appearance is Scottish SS Naomi 'Dr. Evil' Honma. Marvin Hansen is also a first-time All-Star.
IL SP Enrique Vazquez, the 2027 Golden Arm, will be making his second All-Star appearance.

Bulldozers wrote:

Board of the PEBA wrote:The 2028 PEBA All-Star Game is hosted by the New Orleans Trendsetters at beautiful New Frontier Park on the shores of the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana. This iconic setting, with is tall right-field wall, set against the river, could provide us with a high-scoring match-up between the stars of the Sovereign League and the Imperial League!

NFP.png

Lovely ballpark, but wait. That's not New Orleans! There's no mountains visible from New Orleans. No hills either. And look at the Mississippi, it's BELOW the ballpark. But in downtown New Orleans, the river is ABOVE the land, held back (usually) by dikes. No dikes here.

I don't think anyone in Louisiana would recognize this park. Send a photographer down south to get some local photos.

Don't you remember Bob, way back in 2024 they used all the state's landfill rubbish to build up the land at the edge of the Mississippi so they wouldn't need dykes and plonked New Frontier Park on top of it. The Mountains are not really mountains, just more landfill rubbish tips as America's packaging waste spirals out of control in the 2020's

Harpoon wrote:

Bulldozers wrote:

Board of the PEBA wrote:The 2028 PEBA All-Star Game is hosted by the New Orleans Trendsetters at beautiful New Frontier Park on the shores of the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana. This iconic setting, with is tall right-field wall, set against the river, could provide us with a high-scoring match-up between the stars of the Sovereign League and the Imperial League!

NFP.png

Lovely ballpark, but wait. That's not New Orleans! There's no mountains visible from New Orleans. No hills either. And look at the Mississippi, it's BELOW the ballpark. But in downtown New Orleans, the river is ABOVE the land, held back (usually) by dikes. No dikes here.

I don't think anyone in Louisiana would recognize this park. Send a photographer down south to get some local photos.

Don't you remember Bob, way back in 2024 they used all the state's landfill rubbish to build up the land at the edge of the Mississippi so they wouldn't need dykes and plonked New Frontier Park on top of it. The Mountains are not really mountains, just more landfill rubbish tips as America's packaging waste spirals out of control in the 2020's

How'd I forget that? Oh, 2024, you say? Must have been during my electroshock therapy sessions. Massive memory erasure. That explains it, thanks.

But the landfill disguised as tree-covered hills? That's disgusting! More electroshock, please!

Featherheads wrote:The steve hott snub is going to cause some serious discontent among the steve hott superfans: the hott heads.

While you await game time, sit back, have a few Hurricanes and when you can no longer stand, go grab some beignets at Cafe du Monde!! Just know that on Bourbon Street, the liquor portions in that recipe are doubled...

If there is a slice of heaven on earth, Cafe du Monde absolutely qualifies. Beignets and chicory coffee ...