From the Windup is Matt Snyder's extended look at some aspect of America's pastime each Thursday.
This coming weekend, Major League Baseball will reveal its 2009 All-Star teams. So what better opportunity than this to run through a list of this season's "Anti-All-Stars." Anti-All-Stars is far too bland a name, though, so we decided to name the team in honor of Andruw Jones. After all, he was the poster child for guys not earning the lucrative contracts bestowed on them last season. We'll sort through each position and find the player who is least helping his team in comparison to expectations -- whether monetary or from management.
In light of last year's All-Star Game, when pitchers who weren't supposed to pitch ended up working because the game went to 15 innings, Major League Baseball on Wednesday expanded the rosters for this year's game, adding a 13th pitcher for each team.
Michael Jackson believes 
On July 14, Major League Baseball will hold its annual All-Star Game in St. Louis. Before the actual game begins, though, President 
Ratings for Saturday's national baseball broadcasts on FOX are down 9 percent against last season at this time, the continuation of a trend that's troubling to the network. Last year's World Series was the lowest rated in history, regular season games are down 23 percent since 2000 and, since they're paying $255 million a year to show baseball games, they'd like that to change. 
Even before their first game in 1998, the Arizona Diamondbacks had tried to land an All-Star Game in Phoenix. They had a nice new park to offer, and Major League Baseball seemed to be awarding All-Star Games to cities with new stadiums.
While the 2008 All Star Game may be a thing of the past, people have still been talking about things they saw at Yankee Stadium those three days, and most of them have to do with 
You think that there couldn't be any more 
