Halladay out; Clement in as an All Star

[MaineDem]

From Red Sox email:
Just six days ago, Red Sox manager Terry Francona was "crushed" and Boston right-hander Matt Clement was "disappointed" because the latter fell short in his bid to make his first All-Star team. As it turns out, the story has a happy ending.

Clement will indeed join American League All-Star manager Francona, and teammates Johnny Damon, David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez and Jason Varitek, for the All-Star festivities in Detroit.

While nobody on the Red Sox wished an injury on Roy Halladay, the Toronto ace's left leg contusion (suffered Friday night) led to his All-Star spot being vacated.

Edited to add link. http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050709&content_id=1122831&vkey=allstar2005&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

[ed2004]

1. Damn

That is such bad luck. Doc was having a great year and deserved to start the All-Star game.

[Telly Savalas]

2. This is so fucked.

The Blue Jays are already having enough problems finding an adequate fifth starter in the rotation, now they gotta replace the best pitcher in the AL for a month or so.

The only bright side to this is the timing: one of the starts Halladay misses will be the meaningless All-Star game instead of a real game.

[JohnKleeb]

3. Its unfortunate that Hallady didnt make it

but I think Clement deserves it, hes probably the best offseason pitching aquasation in the league, Sox were wise to sign him.