Sunday, October 29, 2006
RBI Watch: Year-End Spectacularationism Edition
Carlos Zambrano is the man.
Even though he hit .300 last year as a pitcher, dude had 4 career homeruns; 6 bombs this year netted him 11 Pitcher RBIs, which was good enough to distance himself from Jake Peavy, former Jay Dave Bush, and probable NL Cy Young winner Brandon Webb, each of whom drove in 9 for their respective run-thirsty teams...and the excitement doesn’t end there!
Oh, wait...yes it does.
On a different note, Johan Santana should be cruising towards his third consecutive Cy Young award this year, and it would be a travesty that Bartolo Colon won last year but for the fact that the award is meaningless; much like the MVP or Gold Glove Awards (and I would include Silver Sluggers as well if anyone gave a rat’s ass about them), anything decided by a bunch of media-types/Red Sox/Yankees fans cannot be judged as to have been delivered sans bias...soon to be evidenced by Derek Jeter winning the AL MVP. Yes, it was the best season of the incredibly over-hyped Yankee Captain’s career, but it was Aaron Hill’s best season too, so that shouldn’t be a determining factor, goddamnit.
2006 saw a pretty nice regular season stained by the Worst World Series EVER; Detroit and St. Louis misplayed more balls than an hooker with carpal tunnel syndrome, and Kenny Rogers is just a fucking moron. Any Series that ends with David Eckstein winning the MVP Award should take a good, long look in the mirror and figure out whether it’s better to unveil a nice "story" or an enjoyable Fall Classic.
God, that sucked.
¶ 11:16 AM
Even though he hit .300 last year as a pitcher, dude had 4 career homeruns; 6 bombs this year netted him 11 Pitcher RBIs, which was good enough to distance himself from Jake Peavy, former Jay Dave Bush, and probable NL Cy Young winner Brandon Webb, each of whom drove in 9 for their respective run-thirsty teams...and the excitement doesn’t end there!
Oh, wait...yes it does.
On a different note, Johan Santana should be cruising towards his third consecutive Cy Young award this year, and it would be a travesty that Bartolo Colon won last year but for the fact that the award is meaningless; much like the MVP or Gold Glove Awards (and I would include Silver Sluggers as well if anyone gave a rat’s ass about them), anything decided by a bunch of media-types/Red Sox/Yankees fans cannot be judged as to have been delivered sans bias...soon to be evidenced by Derek Jeter winning the AL MVP. Yes, it was the best season of the incredibly over-hyped Yankee Captain’s career, but it was Aaron Hill’s best season too, so that shouldn’t be a determining factor, goddamnit.
2006 saw a pretty nice regular season stained by the Worst World Series EVER; Detroit and St. Louis misplayed more balls than an hooker with carpal tunnel syndrome, and Kenny Rogers is just a fucking moron. Any Series that ends with David Eckstein winning the MVP Award should take a good, long look in the mirror and figure out whether it’s better to unveil a nice "story" or an enjoyable Fall Classic.
God, that sucked.
¶ 11:16 AM
