Thoughts on Annual Awards

I could write a 1000 word essay on how bad the Gold Gloves are. On average, about 3 choices per league are correct or strongly, strongly defensible. But otherwise, the awards this year were pretty on the money, but it's not as if they were particularly contentious races either.

Alber Pujols and Joe Mauer each won MVP's by near unanimous margins. Rightfully so.

Zack Greinke won the AL Cy Young after being nearly unhittable. Perfect choice.

Tim Lincecum won the NL Cy Young and deserv....errrr....what? Poor Adam Wainwright got shafted. That makes two Cy Youngs Lincecum's won that he hasn't deserved. Lucky man, BBWAA seems to want to help make him real rich.

Still 3 out of the 4 major awards ain't bad, although admittedly they screwed up the only real difficult choice.

Thoughts on one blog for September!

Guess who's been a crappy blogger since he got to college? Time to do better. I think I'll do better once playoffs start.

So here's some quick thoughts on baseball's happenings of late.

First, with Bobby Valentine returning to the USA, I'm going to rehash one of my favorite opinions: Bobby Valentine should be the manager of the Mets. He's a white Ozzie Guillen. He fits perfectly for them. He gives a team without any character some character. He should have never been fired for Steve Phillips' mistakes. The Wilpons love him, his players loved him, and he was a winner. Fire Jerry Manuel if, and only if, Bobby Valentine returns.

Second, it's about time Eric Wedge got fired. Seriously, that team's underachieved for the last 5 years.

Third, the awards this year are easy. Pujols and Mauer should be MVP, Lincecum and Greinke are the Cy Youngs. Apologies to Felix Hernandez, Justin Verlander, and Prince Fielder.

Fourth, I'm not making playoff predictions right now. I want to see the matchups, I don't see clear-cut favorites that will beat whomever they play.