What's Making Me Talk: It's All-Star Time

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So begins the time of the baseball season when I really get excited.

The reason for this is simple.

The All-Star period is my favorite time of the baseball season behind the postseason.

You see, I love seeing players who deserve to get rewarded with the publicity of being on the All-Star team.

I also hate with a passion how some players get snubbed by the way the MLB decides who plays in the midsummer classic.

And when I hate something, I need to yap on about it until I'm tired talking about it.

So I'm scrapping the usual top stories and going with extra random scribbles, all about the All-Star teams. This doesn't include my All-Star ballot, which will be out later this week.

You can say what you want, but...

You can say what you want about Adam Dunn, but he's on a good pace to be one of the elite home run hitters of...all time?

I think this is the second time I've done this about Dunn, but did anyone else notice he hit his 300th home run of his career? He's just 29 and the fifth player to reach that number in less than 4,200 career at-bats.

He joins 500-home-run hitters Mark McGwire, Harmon Killebrew, and Babe Ruth. Ralph Kiner was the only one to not reach 500 as he only hit 69 more home runs after reaching 300, but his career was cut short due to an injury.

So in the post-steroid era, Dunn has a legit shot to reach 500 home runs. His average bites, but he gets on base plenty and you can't deny his raw power. Is 500 home runs still a guarantee for the Hall of Fame?

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