Just to clarify, the Japanese vote I was talking about are the actual people in Japan that get on to the MLB website and vote for their players like Ichiro and Matsui. I don't see how anyone here can make a case for Matsui to start the game, especially with Vernon Wells out there. Personally I would be alot happier with the fans not being able to vote, or the fan vote counting for less. Everytime I think about fans voting at games I see ten year old little kids with a huge stack of all-star ballots punching names because they sound cool or puinching them because they are a hometown player, not voting for players that truly deserve to be there.