As if the problems with the American Democratic System weren't bad enough (they never even checked my id yesterday!), the voters entrusted with handing out the hardware this baseball postseason have gotten it all wrong.
First off, how does Yankees 2b Robinson Cano not win the Rookie of the Year award! If it wasn't for him the Yankees wouldn't have made the playoffs! What did Huston Street do for the A's? With or without him they still don't make the playoffs! And I thought that relievers couldn't win major awards!!!!
Isn't that why Mariano Rivera, also of the Yankees, got passed over by a guy with a 3.50 era for the Cy Young Award! Sure, Bartolo Colon won 20 games and lead the Angels to the West division crown. But he's the most overrated pitcher since Hideki Irabu. He didn't deserve the award. If anything just give the damn thing to White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper if you're so opposed to giving it to a reliever.
But that's not going to happen since the "rules" say that it has to go to a starting pitcher and not a relief pitcher or even a pitching coach! Those same "rules" say that a Japanese imported player can't win the Rookie of the Year award because he's not a true rookie.
At least that's the case when said rookie plays for the Yankees. But am I missing something? Didn't Ichiro Suzuki, he of the Seattle Mariners, win the ROY? How is it that Suzuki can win the award coming from Japan but Matsui can't? That Mariano Rivera can't win the Cy Young award as a reliever but Eric Gagne can?
Dare I ask: is there a Yankee bias out there in the mind of voters? Or are they just confused about whose eligible for the awards and whose not? Either way they don't elicit a lot of confidence in my mind. If this is what's going to happen when people vote I'd prefer apathy any day of the week.
Yay for democracy!
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