Proof That Awards Are Meaningless
All you baseball fans out there, the next time you are having that classic argument over which baseball player is better and your opponent brings up MVP Awards, look no further than the 2006 AL MVP voting to support your case.
It was bad enough that yesterday Albert Pujols was passed over in favor of Ryan Howard. No doubt, Howard had an amazing season. But his team failed to make the playoffs. Albert Pujols led his team to a division title. He'd been shafted several times before in favor of another big home run guy (more on him later). Yet anyone who claims that Albert Pujols isn't the most valuable player in the National League is fooling themselves.
And that brings us to today's travesty.
Three of the top six MVP candidates were Twins. This is illogical. No Tiger made top six, despite making it to the playoffs. But three players on the Twins? Come on.
David Ortiz, who doesn't deserve it this year because the Red Sox dropped to third, makes a better case for himself because he truly did carry his team. Ortiz should have won it in 2005.
Derek Jeter is the true MVP of the American League. Players know it. Managers know it. In fact, everyone knows it but the writers.
Jeter got beat out in the voting by one of the three Twins, Justin Morneau. Morneau had a great season and, perhaps if he was a Tiger, might have deserved it. But he was a Twin, along with Joe Mauer and Johan Santana (the real Twin MVP).
These same writers will one day judge Derek Jeter's career and determine his Hall of Fame worthiness. Perhaps they will say things like, "he didn't hit home runs like Alex Rodriguez" or "he never won the MVP". Sad.
Barry Bonds won the MVP seven times. Of the seven, at least four were under the influence of illegal substances. He has never performed well in the clutch without the assistance of performance enhancers. All he has ever done was take away value from the game. Now, you tell me who you would rather have on your team, the cheating choker with all the MVP awards or the big-game player who never won the individual achievement.
Awards are meaningless.
Real fans know the truth.
It was bad enough that yesterday Albert Pujols was passed over in favor of Ryan Howard. No doubt, Howard had an amazing season. But his team failed to make the playoffs. Albert Pujols led his team to a division title. He'd been shafted several times before in favor of another big home run guy (more on him later). Yet anyone who claims that Albert Pujols isn't the most valuable player in the National League is fooling themselves.
And that brings us to today's travesty.
Three of the top six MVP candidates were Twins. This is illogical. No Tiger made top six, despite making it to the playoffs. But three players on the Twins? Come on.
David Ortiz, who doesn't deserve it this year because the Red Sox dropped to third, makes a better case for himself because he truly did carry his team. Ortiz should have won it in 2005.
Derek Jeter is the true MVP of the American League. Players know it. Managers know it. In fact, everyone knows it but the writers.
Jeter got beat out in the voting by one of the three Twins, Justin Morneau. Morneau had a great season and, perhaps if he was a Tiger, might have deserved it. But he was a Twin, along with Joe Mauer and Johan Santana (the real Twin MVP).
These same writers will one day judge Derek Jeter's career and determine his Hall of Fame worthiness. Perhaps they will say things like, "he didn't hit home runs like Alex Rodriguez" or "he never won the MVP". Sad.
Barry Bonds won the MVP seven times. Of the seven, at least four were under the influence of illegal substances. He has never performed well in the clutch without the assistance of performance enhancers. All he has ever done was take away value from the game. Now, you tell me who you would rather have on your team, the cheating choker with all the MVP awards or the big-game player who never won the individual achievement.
Awards are meaningless.
Real fans know the truth.
posted by E-Luv at 2:12 PM
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