Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Holliday loses NL MVP to Rollins?! Is there any hope for baseball now?

So Jimmy Rollins won MVP, Holliday was second; how the hell do you vote Rollins ahead of Holliday? Supposedly mostly because Holliday had half as many away homers as he did at home.
Ridiculous? You bet.
Here's what I don't get: "Rollins was listed first on 16, second on seven, third on four, fourth on four and fifth on one for a total of 353 points. Holliday's breakdown was 11 first-place votes, 18 seconds, one third, one fourth and one sixth for 336 points. "

Now how in the hell do you vote Holliday as far back as fourth or SIXTH?! For those who don't get it, 1 sportswriter thought that there were 3 better candidates in front of Holliday and one thought there were 5 better candidates. HA! Right. That's disgusting.

So lets do a tally of everything again:
-Bob Melvin, the man who left Valverde in long enough to choke over and over against the Rockies therefore costing his team the NLCS, is the best NL manager.
-Ryan Braun, the man who led the majors in errors, is the Rookie of the Year.
-Jimmy Rollins, the man who had 80 more AB then Holliday yet 4 fewer hits than Holliday, is the NL MVP.
-Todd Helton, with a .999 fielding % and 60 more innings at first base and 5 fewer errors than Derrek Lee, is not a Gold Glove winner, just like Tulo isn't even though his fielding % was .987 compared to Rollins' .985.

Denver, Colorado is now officially pissed off today.

Mendoza's 5280 (excuses the idiots in the media use to downplay the Rockies' greatness)

2 comments:

Howard said...

All is desolation...

Howard said...

It's now official -- sports writers are the stupidest group of people on the planet. And I should know since I used to be one. But I got better.