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Celebrate Kansas City Thanksgiving Losers: The 80th Annual TKC Turkey Awards!!!

Tony's Kansas City (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago

While so many people in this cowtown stuff their face, it's important to realize that there are a great many d-bags in Kansas City who are thankful despite desperate circumstances. As a very grateful, local basement dweller/blogger I want to celebrate ongoing failure in this town. To wit . . . TKC'S ANNUAL TURKEY AWARDS CELEBRATE KANSAS CITY'S BIGGEST LOSERS!!! Here goes: Nobody wants to listen to...

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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Not that I expect this to matter to anyone else, but I have a hard time identifying myself these days. Three months ago, I got my dream job as Senior Writer at Sports Illustrated. But, even now, those words don’t sound quite right to me. Whenever I introduce myself, I hear myself say: “Columnist at the Kansas City Star.” Sure, part of this is simply habit. I have worked...

Shanoff's WUC: Reasons Fans Can Give Thanks

The Sporting Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Today's Calls: Thanksgiving vs. Black Friday, Lions vs. Cowboys, Texas vs. Texas A&M, Kevin Durant vs. Brandon Jennings, Albert Pujols vs. Immortality, Joe Mauer vs. Miguel Cabrera, Mike Shanahan vs. Bill Cowher, Tim Tebow vs. Jimmy Johnson and More. The Opening Pitch: What do you give thanks for, as a sports fan? I know a few things that make my list: • That the Arizona Cardinals defied...

New-age stats shed light on old Cy Young votes

addyz8vac | 11/25/2009

For so many years, the formula for winning a Cy Young Award was pretty simple: Win a lot of games. Denny McLain was a unanimous pick in 1968 and deservedly so. He posted 31 victories — the combined total of this year's Cy Young starters, Tim Lincecum and Zack Greinke. A whopping win total, a good ERA and a bunch of strikeouts often brought home the hardware. But the perception of pitching has

Kershaw Closing In On Dubious, Meaningless Record

True Blue LA (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

by Mark J. Terrill - AP This is the only permitted outfield activity Clayton Kershaw is allowed to partake during pregame warmups. View full size photo » Clayton Kershaw has a bright future in this game. This we know. His present isn't so bad either, of course. He struck out more than a batter per inning, he allowed the lowest opponent batting average in baseball, and his adjusted ERA (ERA+)...

Joe Posnanski: Mauer is not only AL MVP, he's also baseball's most valuable player

SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

So, it looks like I spent another sports year feeling pre-agitated about things that did not come especially close to happening. Zack Greinke won the Cy Young Award ... he won it rather easily. There was no sudden and overpowering push to get Jack Morris into the Hall of Fame while Bert Blyleven writhes in baseball limbo. The Cleveland Browns did not hire Eric Mangini.

AL MVP Joe Mauer - A future Yankee?

Subway Squawkers (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

Even this Yankee fan can concede that Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer deserved the AL MVP award over Mark Teixeira and Derek Jeter. In fact, I wrote back in September the reasons why Mauer was worthy of the honor. So yes, Mauer earned that award. He didn't just have one of the greatest years by a catcher ever, but he got his team into the playoffs - the one thing critics held against him earlier...

The Writer's Take Note Again...AL MVP

More Hardball...... (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

After reading my post on why Zack Greinke should win the AL Cy Young Award, the baseball writers association responded by...voting Zack Greinke the 2009 AL Cy Young Award Winner. It is for this reason that I have to wholeheartedly believe that once again the writer's referred to my post on September 22 before they cast their votes for AL MVP. After reading, they promptly voted the Minnesota Twins catcher...

MVP Award Probabilities: Accounting for Sampling Variation

Baseball Analysts (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

This week wraps up the MLB awards . In the AL, Joe Mauer took home the MVP and Zack Greinke took home the Cy Young. In the NL, the hardware will likely go to Albert Pujols for MVP. Meanwhile, in one of the tightest three-way races in recent memory, Tim Lincecum squeaked out a victory for the Cy Young. Since these four players won the awards, they must be the top players of 2009, right? Surely, I jest....

MLB Trade Rumors: Josh Johnson to be Traded'?

Fake Teams (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

by Luis Alvarez - AP 2 months ago: Florida Marlins' Josh Johnson pitches against the Washington Nationals during the first inning of a baseball game, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009, in Washington. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez) View full size photo » This past weekend, MLB.com's Joe Frisaro reported that the Marlins and the agent for starting pitcher Josh Johnson have reached an impasse in their contract...

Greinke Gets Four MVP Votes

Nick Sloan's Official Web Site (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

Four voters placed Kansas City Royals Cy Young Award winning STUD Zack Greinke on their MVP ballots. However, like the Royals, he finished in a distant fashion from Joe Mauer, who easily won the award. Still, it was nice to see Greinke get some buzz. He won 25 percent of his team's games and pitched for one of baseball's worst teams. When a guy puts up a quarter of a team's victories in his own win...

Condolence Letters to Other AL MVP "Candidates" and Concerned Parties

Twinkie Town (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

More photos » by Jennifer Simonson - AP Just look at all those Mauers! There's more baseball talent in this picture than there's football talent in Cleveland. Browse more photos » Most of these are mine. One is not. Dear Derek Jeter , Thank you for your fantastic season, but we regret to inform you that you were not voted the winner of the American League MVP for the following reasons....

Miguel Cabrera Gets One MVP Vote

Bless You Boys (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

More photos » by Charlie Riedel - AP One voter thought Detroit's Miguel Cabrera was the American League's Most Valuable Player. Browse more photos » Joe Mauer winning the American League Most Valuable Player award wasn't much of a surprise, as he was the prevailing favorite through most of the season. It probably also isn't much of a surprise that Mauer didn't receive a unanimous vote....

• The Case Against Miguel Cabrera - TigerBlog

Greinke and fly balls

The Hardball Times (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

In God we trust. All others bring data. -W. Edwards Deming Along with Zack Greinke 's 2009 American League Cy Young Award came a widely-circulated article by Tyler Kepner in the New York Times. In the article, Brian Bannister is quoted, "So a lot of times, Zack would pitch for a fly ball at our park instead of a ground ball, just because the zone rating was better in our outfield and it was a...

Where's the outrage?

Amazin' Avenue (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

Where's the outrage? So many sportswriters got their panties in a bunch over Keith Law leaving Carpenter off his ballot, what about Ben Zobrist on the MVP ballot? I'm glad Joe Mauer won and would have voted for him, but Zobrist was clearly the second best position player in baseball this year, yet he was left off 17 ballots and his highest vote was 6th. The top three in AL MVP should have been Mauer,...

New-age stats shed light on old Cy Young votes

addyz8vac | 11/25/2009

For so many years, the formula for winning a Cy Young Award was pretty simple: Win a lot of games. Denny McLain was a unanimous pick in 1968 and deservedly so. He posted 31 victories — the combined total of this year's Cy Young starters, Tim Lincecum and Zack Greinke. A whopping win total, a good ERA and a bunch of strikeouts often brought home the hardware. But the perception of pitching has changed,...

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