Comments on: Why Do We Care?

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By: bknight47

bknight47 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:38:35 +0000

Great article…hit the nail on the head…

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Joe R — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:18:51 +0000

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By: CircleChange11

CircleChange11 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:53:01 +0000

The MVP doesn’t always mean best player on a winning team.

Matter of fact, in 1987, a slugger on a last place team beat out a defensive specialist (11 1st place votes to 9) on the NL pennant squad.

It applies here but I was actually going to bring it up elsewhere because it’s likely the closest a guy with zero HRs EVER came to beating out a guy with 40+ (Dawson had 47 or 49).

… and this was likely 20 years before sabermetrics started becoming more commonly seen.

To the topic of the OP … we care because we’re baseball freaks. Most people just watch the game and cheer a HR here and there, cheer on the home squad and/or favorite player, and leave it at that. We don’t. We love all aspects of the game, even (perhaps especially) the numbers.

Also, everyone loves to be a critic and voice their opinion. We see this in ALL aspects of life. Everyone knows what the president, quarterback, head coach, gm, ceo *should* do, and we/they voice it as often as possible to anyone willing to listen or at least be present. *grin*

Baseball, for my family, is something that we primarily “do” … and do together, but the discussions of who’s better, what our fav team should do to improve, etc are fun. I choose to talk about baseball rather than aspects of life such as religion, politics, and celebrities.

By: RKW84

RKW84 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:04:27 +0000

This article seems to fall under the “I get why the writers care, as it gives them a chance to have their opinion heard” category.

By: Logan

Logan — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:28:35 +0000

And it all works out! Twins make the playoffs (probably gonna be a short stay, but who knows?), Mauer can get his hardware, all is right with the world…

In all seriousness though, the BBWAA needs a sabermetric infusion, lest Felix (and his 19 wins) steal the Cy Young from my fantasy league championship team hero Greinke.

By: Pinball1973

Pinball1973 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:32:39 +0000

People – and I’ll include “sportswriters” as a group among them this time just to be sociable – can believe anything they want unless they insist I take their fantasy with seriousness I don’t think it deserves. That goes especially for stuff of no importance like baseball.

That said – many of these people aren’t content with having the right to vote for someone I think is a poor MVP selection, they insist on being total assholes about it. That I feel no need to shrug off unless I want to.