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Monday, November 23, 2009

Mauer Power


Pop quiz, hot shot: There's a catcher who wins the Gold Glove, the batting title and leads the league in on base and slugging percentage. What do you call him?

MVP.

That is, unless you're the (presumably) Detroit-area voter who put Miguel Cabrera in front of Mauer in first place, costing him the unanimous MVP.

Same dude who voted Verlander over Greinke for the Cy Young award? If so, is it time to investigate whether this city-by-city system is the best way to go?

UPDATE: Ken Davidoff Tweets that it was Keizo Konishi of Kyodo News, based in Seattle, who voted Miguel Cabrera first. I can think of no worldly justification for voting Cabrera ahead of either Mauer or Jeter for that matter, so I eagerly await Mr. Konishi's explanation.
Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 2:24pm (27) Comments

My Morning in Exile


Had my last Monday morning staff meeting this morning. Next Monday: it's me, my cat, my Ipod, my pajamas, a pot of coffee and a big bowl of Count Chocula. Until then:

  • Omar Vizquel is Snake Eyes to Ozzie Guillen's Storm Shadow.


  • Comment of the day comes from Len over at NBC: "Hey, Frenchie might hit a double!"


  • A-Rod's cousin's house is being foreclosed upon. There's a good chance that it's a walkaway as opposed to a hardship case, and the piece itself quotes someone saying that A-Rod is still taking care of the guy financially, but don't let that stop the Daily News from portraying this as a situation in which A-Rod threw his family under the bus and then abandoned him. That's just how they do.


  • If they throw in another $6 million I'll take Mike Lowell off the Red Sox' hands. I could use some veteran presence around the house.


  • Not having enough scouts is the new inefficiency.


  • The biggest difference between blogging full time and blogging part time is that when you blog full time, you pretty much have to opine on things like the backup catcher market. I'm cool with that. In fact, going forward, I'm going to view making innocuous stories like that interesting as a creative challenge.


    • As I mentioned the other day, the job change is tempting me to take a stab at reviving my long dead personal blog. I make no promises that it will keep going -- two blogs tends to be a challenge -- but I've got a new post up today. It won't be anything like my baseball writing in terms of volume -- if I get one or two new things up a week over there I'll be happy. And if it dies again, hell, it dies.
    Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 11:38am (12) Comments