November 23, 201015 yr I was going to be so pissed if they gave the AL Cy Young to Sabathia over Hernandez.
November 23, 201015 yr I would like to know who the one guy was that didn't put Konerko in the top 10 and why he has a friggin' vote period.
November 23, 201015 yr QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Nov 23, 2010 -> 02:57 PM) I can see Hamilton winning, but FIFTH? C'mon! Hamilton Miguel Cabrera Robinson Cano Jose Bautista Paul Konerko Which of those guys should PK14 have beaten?
November 23, 201015 yr QUOTE (bschmaranz @ Nov 23, 2010 -> 01:14 PM) I would like to know who the one guy was that didn't put Konerko in the top 10 and why he has a friggin' vote period. Hopefully it was a Toronto sportswriter as a payback for Cowley's stupid crap.
November 23, 201015 yr QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 23, 2010 -> 01:59 PM) Hamilton Miguel Cabrera Robinson Cano Jose Bautista Paul Konerko Which of those guys should PK14 have beaten? I think he deserved it more then Bautista but not enough to get bent outta shape or anything.
November 23, 201015 yr QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 23, 2010 -> 03:17 PM) Hopefully it was a Toronto sportswriter as a payback for Cowley's stupid crap. Expound?
November 23, 201015 yr QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Nov 23, 2010 -> 02:51 PM) Expound? Sorry MD, I thought most knew about this already... http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/p...-blue-jays.aspx UPDATED: Chicago reporter calls for baseball to relocate Blue Jays Posted: April 16, 2010, 5:30 PM by Jeremy Sandler Baseball, MLB, Blue Jays, White Sox For starters Joe Cowley, the Chicago Sun-Times' White Sox beat writer, says he has no problem with Canada or Canadians. “I don’t have a problem with Canadians or anybody,” Cowley said early Friday evening in an interview from Cleveland where the White Sox were to play the Indians. “I didn’t write anything with an agenda against anyone.” He also stated his support for a cause that would make no less noteworthy a Canadian than Jim Balsillie, saying he believes Toronto should get a second NHL team. Nonetheless, there was again a fuss created over Cowley and his relationship with Canada arising from a column that appeared on the paper's website Friday in which he called for Major League Baseball to re-locate Canada’s remaining baseball team to Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, New Jersey or seemingly any place that does not feature beavers on its nickels or maple leaves on its flags. And Cowley’s protestations notwithstanding, his history does come with a large dose of anti-Canadian sentiment. In 2004 when working for the Daily Southtown newspaper in suburban Chicago, he described Toronto as "nothing but a city in a third-world country,” and refused to stand for O Canada as a kind of retribution for Montreal Canadiens fans booing the U.S. national anthem. He later described his “third-world” comment as in jest, though just yesterday Cowley posted on his Twitter account: “Arrived in Cleveland … USA, USA, USA … Four days in Toronto is like three weeks in the States.” (Cleveland is a fine place with a beautiful lakeside location, lovely people and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But it’s hard to imagine a global survey of desirable destinations ranking Toronto below the city that inspired the “We’re not Detroit” tagline in last year’s hilarious viral video spoof.) In 2003, Cowley omitted Blue Jays first baseman Carlos Delgado and outfielder Vernon Wells from his American League MVP ballot, earning a one-year suspension from awards voting by the Chicago chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America. Cowley’s colleagues said he did not take voting seriously and “embarrassed” the chapter for not ranking putting Delgado (who finished second to Alex Rodriguez after compiling a league-leading 145 RBIs) or Wells (who finished eighth with a .317 average, 33 home runs and 117 RBIs) among his top 10 choices. In Friday's article, Cowley correctly pointed out the record-low attendance levels at the Rogers Centre for two of this week’s four games between Toronto and the White Sox. But as Blue Jays beat writer Shi Davidi of The Canadian Press pointed out in a minor Twitter skirmish over the piece, Cowley failed to address worse attendance woes in U.S. markets Florida and Oakland and terrible early-season crowds in Baltimore and Cleveland. The article also relied on quotes from Alex Rios, a former Blue Jay who was booed lustily during this week's series, and White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen and pitcher Freddy Garcia, both Venezuelans. It did not offer a chance for anyone currently with the Blue Jays to respond, though a response of sorts did come immediately with several unflattering revisions to the writer's Wikipedia entry. Cowley was also taken to task by Blue Jays fans on Twitter, who created the hashtag #WhyJoeCowleyHatesToronto to track their collective efforts. (Originally published at 5:30 p.m. ET. Updated at 7 p.m. ET with comment from Cowley.) Read more: http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/p...x#ixzz168oKsF2N
November 23, 201015 yr QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 23, 2010 -> 03:55 PM) Sorry MD, I thought most knew about this already... http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/p...-blue-jays.aspx I can't recall that at all, which seems weird. The only part I agree with is not standing for their anthem if they're going to boo ours.
November 23, 201015 yr QUOTE (bschmaranz @ Nov 23, 2010 -> 02:34 PM) I think he deserved it more then Bautista but not enough to get bent outta shape or anything. Bautista hit 54 home runs and was better offensively and defensively. Konerko deserved to finish 5th.
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