Dear Albert Pujols:

[yendi]

Kindly shut the fuck up.

The MVP is an award for regular-season performance. The Howard put up better numbers and led his team to a better record. The fact that the Phillies played in a division with two decent teams is the reason they went home early and your team became this decade's answer to the '87 Twins (only without the class).

I'd wish for you to encounter Andre Dawson's fan club in a dark alley, but instead how about Joe Torre, who won the MVP while failing to take The Cardinals to the playoffs?

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[techempage.livejournal.com]

Dear Albert Pujols:
Kindly shut the fuck up.

I don't have more than that little bit, but you started a filk brewing in my brane!

(The Real Slim Shady)
"Will Albert Pujols shut the fuck up
shut the fuck up
shut the fuck up"

~shrugs~

I know, it's no "Superman Jesus."

[lonesomenumber1]

But before you STFU, explain again how Tom Glavine "wasn't good at all" in Game 1 of the NLCS. Asshole.

[kradical.livejournal.com]

While I admit that Pujols is being an idiot (Jeter's response to not getting the MVP that he deserved was far classier), this year had two of the worst MVP votes I've seen since I started following baseball 30 years ago. Only a brain-dead moron would think Howard was a better player than Pujols, but sadly, the BBRAA* is well-stocked with brain-dead morons. (My favorite is Joe Cowley, who put Jeter sixth on his ballot, on the theory that the Yanks would've won the division without him, a theory that would hold more water if he hadn't put Jermaine Dye second on his ballot, and the White Sox finished third with him.)


* That isn't a typo. Joe Sheehan of Baseball Prospectus has taken to calling it the Baseball Reporters Association of America, since it only includes people who report on ballgames, and they shouldn't get to co-opt the term "baseball writer" when they're only a fraction of the people doing it.

[yendi]

I'm with you on the stupidity of the Cowley vote (although some of the fan responses -- which have included death threats -- have embarrassed me as a native New Yorker) and the silliness of the voting system itself. I wouldn't have picked Howard over Pujols myself, but I see where folks were coming from (my pick was still Reyes, who I see as more valuable than either Howard or Pujols; come to think of it, I also see Carbrera and Beltran as more valuable). There's a tendency towards powerlust in the voting, and Howard grabbed those voters (even the year before, when Pujols won, Andruw Jones came way closer than any .265 hitter should have, thanks to his power numbers).

[texmorgan.livejournal.com]

I'd love to put Barry Bonds and Albert Pujols in a room together and have them debate why the other didn't get the MVP. They would go at it so furiously they might not play next year and THAT would make me happy.