And, the AL All-Stars Are ...

C Jason Varitek (with Ivan Rodriguez 52,000 behind)
1B Kevin Youkilis (with Justin Morneau 200,000 behind)
2B Dustin Pedroia (with Robinson Cano 160,000 behind)
3B Alex Rodriguez (with Mike Lowell 180,000 behind)
SS Derek Jeter (with Edgar Renteria 330,000 behind)
OF Manny Ramirez
OF Ichiro Suzuki
OF Vladimir Guerrero (with Magglio Ordoñez and Bobby Abreu 40,000 behind)
DH David Ortiz (with Hideki Matsui 300,000 behind)

It's not really an East Coast Bias, just more East Coast Domination. What did you expect? New York and Boston have a lot of people, dedication, and extreme passion, so of course, they'll vote with an entire month left. One thing I don't understand about All-Star voting is why do you drag it out for months. Just like the primaries for President, we need to do these in the matter of about a week or a day. Maybe a day would be too much for servers to handle, but voting early skews the votes. Those who vote early, vote for their favorite players, hence the above results. Not only do Boston and New York win almost all of these competitions, but the second-place players are the players on the other team who didn't win. Granted, Detroit, who sucks by the way, has a few people up there. Those who wait, vote for those who deserve to play in the game, so because all the New York and Boston fans have already used their 25 votes, then the rest of us can counteract their votes. Now, I have to admit some of these players actually deserve to be voted in. According to me, here should be the All-Star starters as of now:

C A.J. Pierzynski (most catchers suck right now, but Joe Mauer and Mike Napoli deserve some votes)
1B Justin Morneau (Youk is close but not quite)
2B Ian Kinsler (Pedroia is doing well, too, but Kinsler has 8 more RBI's and 9 more SB's)
3B Miguel Cabrera (Can he really get this? He has the best stats among 3B)
SS Derek Jeter (the rest aren't doing too well either)
OF Josh Hamilton (Any questions?)
OF Magglio Ordoñez (Quietly having another great year)
OF Milton Bradley (3 Texas Rangers? Manny deserves some votes as well. I need more BA before I vote Ichiro in)
DH David Ortiz (no other DH has his stats even after a slow start)