First on my agenda is Albert Pujols winning the NL MVP, which I could not agree with any more than I do. Albert is the best all around hitter in the game today........PERIOD!!! But it is the up roar of Albert haters, more specifically, Ryan Howard supporters, that is driving me crazier than the Philly Phanatic. Let me just make this really REALLY simple, if you strike out 200 times in a single season you are not that valuable. Now, Im not saying the power numbers Howard put up are anything to look down upon, in fact, I would take them on my team any day, but the obsession around Howard being the MVP is something that I feel is wrong with baseball in general. That we as a baseball nation can call a guy who strikes out more times than me at the Playboy mansion as THE MOST valuable player in baseball.
I'm sorry....is there a gayer mascott???
The second "bone" I have to pick is the complete disregard for the performance K-Rod put forth this season, to not only break the single season save record, but shatter it. Trust me, I would be the first person to put forth the argument that a pitcher should not be the MVP because they don't play every day and a closer should not win the Cy Young cause they don't put in the innings. But the guy didn't even get a sniff at either one, which I saw as a snub to a position that has exceeded in popularity and importance in the last 20 years. A lights out closer is something that every team values almost as high as the ace of their rotation, and for a guy who exemplified that position to not even be in consideration for those awards is more disappointing than Plaxico Burress' street cred right now.
Even Cheddar Bob was disappointed and cmon
he's from DETROIT!!!!!!!!!
Finally, an award that kind of gets lost in the shuffle, but should have more prestige and that is Manager of the Year. More specifically, NL Manager of the Year, which was awarded to Lou Piniella, now again the Cubs were the best team in the NL and were light years better than the competition right up until Manny Ramirez took a tee shot off of home plate and put it through a bar window in Wrigleyville ruining the Shirley Temple cocktail happy hour that was going on. But while the Cubs were so dominant, they were supposed to. They had the talent, the payroll and of course future Hall of Famers Kerry "Meier" Wood and Kosuke Fukudome. Which is why I disagree with the award, it would be like giving Pete Carroll coach of the year in the NCAA, while the team was good they were supposed to be, when Freddy Gonzalez has a Marlins team, in the playoff hunt, who collectively made less money than Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer last year, don't you have to give the guy the recognition.
HAMMER TIME!!!!!!!!!!
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