First half THT Awards
by Adam J. Morris on Jul 24, 2008 10:28 AM CDT
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PrintI meant to post this earlier, then forgot...but John Barten has the First Half THT Awards up...
And he includes a lengthy quote from me regarding one of his first half award winners, Vicente Padilla...
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Focus
Why am I bothered by the suggestion that losing focus is Padilla’s problem? Perhaps it is because the idea that some players can focus harder, and thus produce better results, in clutch situations has been so derided. Is there a distinction that makes those two ideas (players can lose focus, but they can’t focus harder) consistent?
by Back Door Yakker on Jul 24, 2008 12:50 PM CDT reply actions
so he gives Kinsler the AL MVP nod
but says that Brian Roberts should have started at 2B in the ASG..? That doesn’t make much sense…
Grieve: The Yanks have struggled so far. - Lewin: Yeah, cry me a bag of money.
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that's not how I read it
He [Pedroia] also got the starting nod in this week’s All-Star game thanks to the generosity of the Red Sox Nation. Brian Roberts should have been there instead,
The ‘there’ in that sentence points back to the ‘starting nod’.
Grieve: The Yanks have struggled so far. - Lewin: Yeah, cry me a bag of money.
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An attempt at clarification
I meant to say that he should have been there, not that he should have started.
But I think it would have been defensible to start him ahead of Kinsler because I don’t see the AS game as being a reward for a good first half, but rather I vote based on AS game to AS game. With the first half MVP award, 2007 is irrelevant.
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain
Chris Davis could hit 30 hr's this year
Has any player ever hit 20 home runs in the minors and 30 in the majors in the same year?
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