With the baseball All-Star Game less than two weeks away, something peculiar is happening: Fans are, gasp, (mostly) getting it right.

Fans as a whole typically don't know what they are doing. They are dumb when it comes to voting for important things like All-Star Game participants and what jukebox song to play between innings.

Strangely, the fan voting has been better this year than it has in recent memory.

There are no egregious errors like that in 1989, when fans voted Mike Schmidt to start the game despite the fact he retired in May.

With the All-Star rosters expanded to a billion or so — or roughly the size of the Boston Red Sox disabled list — it should be easy to get every player who deserves a spot in the Mid-Summer (not-so) Classic a seat in the crowded dugout, right?

Well, maybe not.

There always will be snubs.

Here are some players who will be on the bubble come All-Star time:

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Kevin Youkilis, Red Sox. Provided he can stay out of the Boston M*A*S*H unit for the next 10 days, Youkilis could still be snubbed because of the numbers game.He's a first baseman in an American League loaded with them.•

Andrew McCutchen/Evan Meek, Pirates. Both probably deserve to be all-stars but bad teams — and the Pirates certainly qualify as a bad team — just don't get two all-stars.So, one of these dudes won't go. It'll probably be Meek.•

Shin-Soo Choo/Fausto Carmona, Indians. See above.•

David DeJesus, Royals. When Carl Crawford flies out, fans will be wondering "What would DeJesus have done?"•

Jose Bautista, Blue Jays. It's hard to believe the AL co-leader in home runs could miss the All-Star Game, but this isn't just possible, it's likely, thanks to a .234 average and no real position to call home.•

Paul Konerko, White Sox. Another AL co-leader in homers could miss the game for the same reason as Youkilis: the glut of AL all-star first basemen.•

Stephen Strasburg, Nationals. Are there 10 better pitchers in the NL right now? Probably not. But All-Star managers usually don't pick pitchers who have been in the majors for less time than their bullpen catcher.So, if you are dreaming of seeing Strasburg face Bautista with the game on the line, you're probably out of luck.I can hear the TVs clicking off already.Mike Kilroy is a staff writer for the Butler Eagle.