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Congratulations

You just did a couple of amazing things as Final Vote participants.

On Tuesday night, someone cast the 100 millionth vote in the history of the Monster All-Star Game Final Vote, now in only seventh year. When you consider that this usually coincides with the Fourth of July holiday, that’s pretty amazng.

At roughly the halfway point of this year’s Final Vote, on Tuesday, fans already had surpassed last year’s total of 23.2 million votes cast over four days. It is going to be incredible to see the final 2008 tally. That’s going to be hard to top next year, especially if the Fourth of July falls again during the voting period, but you all tend to break online balloting records year over year.

Congratulations to the fans.

Fans the story so far in Final Vote

At the halfway point of the Monster 2008 All-Star Game Final Vote announced at 3 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Milwaukee outfielder Corey Hart and Tampa Bay third baseman Evan Longoria were holding slim leads while baseball fans were on the brink of destroying last year’s four-day record of 23.2 million votes in exclusive balloting on MLB.com.

In the American League, the three leaders, Longoria, Jermaine Dye of the White Sox and Jason Giambi of the Yankees, all have more than two million votes each and are separated by just over 10 percent. They are followed by Brian Roberts of the Orioles and Jose Guillen of the Royals.

On the National League side, the top three candidates also each have registered more than two million votes and are apart by approximately 10 percent. Hart is followed closely by David Wright of the Mets, Pat Burrell of the Phillies, Aaron Rowand of the Giants and Carlos Lee of the Astros.

Fans already are toppling last year’s total — 23,153,777 votes — which were cast from a record 13,815,790 ballots. More >

Record voting as Longoria, Hart lead first update

More than 11 million votes were cast exclusively at MLB.com in the opening 24 hours of the Monster 2008 All-Star Game Final Vote, with rookie third baseman Evan Longoria of Tampa Bay and second-year outfielder Corey Hart of Milwaukee at the top of the early returns.

After one day, they are so tightly bunched that the most noteworthy development is not so much the order of positioning as it is the volume of overall balloting. This record-setting vote total for the first day of balloting represents an increase of 115 percent compared to the same period in 2007. Balloting will conclude at 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, and one nominee from each league will get to suit up for the 79th All-Star Game on July 15 at Yankee Stadium.

Longoria is followed in a tightly packed American League group by outfielder Jermaine Dye of the White Sox, first baseman Jason Giambi of the Yankees, second baseman Brian Roberts of the Orioles and outfielder Jose Guillen of the Royals.

In the National League, Hart has a narrow lead over third baseman David Wright of the Mets, who is closely followed by three outfielders: Pat Burrell of the Phillies, Aaron Rowand of the Giants and Carlos Lee of the Astros. More >

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The Final Vote is on.

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Here are your candidates:

AL nominees are outfielder Jermaine Dye of the White Sox, first baseman Jason Giambi of the Yankees, outfielder Jose Guillen of the Royals, Longoria of the Rays and second baseman Brian Roberts of the Orioles.

NL nominees are outfielder Pat Burrell of the Phillies, outfielder Corey Hart of the Brewers, outfielder Carlos Lee of the Astros, outfielder Aaron Rowand of the Giants and third baseman David Wright of the Mets.

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Keep an eye on this space during the campaign. The voting ends at 5 p.m. ET on Thursday, July 10.