Albert Pujols has won his third MVP.

He is #4 on the all-time list for MVP votes behind Bonds, Musial, and Williams. This year was a unanimous selection, the first time in the NL since Bonds' 2002 win.

Mauer handily catches AL MVP Award | MLB.com: News

All that chanting finally paid off. :-)

Congrats to a guy who seems like a class act and an absolutely amazing baseball player.

Current Mood: happy

A photographer put together a time-lapse of images taken at the last game of the World Series. Lens effects, though in color, add an old-timey feel and the music makes it feel like it's from the nostalgic old days of baseball.

Lincecum repeats! I'm stunned - I was sure Wainwright or Carpenter would get it. I was leaning slightly towards Carpenter myself but ultimately felt that I would be more than happy with him or Lincecum winning it. Congrats on the feat, Tim!

Mike Scioscia and Jim Tracy are this year's Managers of the Year. Has there been any other mid-season managerial replacement to have won the award before?

Gardenhire (my and I believe a few other's choice for MOY) was second and Joe Girardi was third in the AL; Tony La Russa and Joe Torre round out the top three in the NL.

Congratulations are in order for Zack Greinke! I have to say, I think that the voters got this one completely right for all of the pitchers who got votes.

As for Greinke, I think this is the perfect conclusion to what has been a turbulent early part of his career. I hope that it is also the beginning of a new chapter where he can build on this success. Royals fans should be psyched to have him!

For your entertainment this morning, the greatest story in the history of baseball in illustrated form.

Enjoy!

I doodled.
A lot.

Drawn while watching the NLCS and WS:


It was made mostly in response to troyinwestvirginia's amusing "Matt Holliday Appreciation song", which treated this minor episode perfectly adequately.

But I was stung by the implication that Dodger fans cannot carry a tune.

So anyway. The episode turned out to be irrelevant, since the Dodgers discovered you can't get to the WS without a starting rotation. But hopefully good for a laugh or two.

Hi, although this is a bad year for it, I created a community devoted to Winter Baseball, winterbaseball. I initially created it to mind-dump what was a growing obsession with me, to found a continental winter league that the Hall of Fame might one day regard as being at a major league level. I was thinking it could maybe achieve the same status as the Federal League.

Anyway, winter leagues based in Hawaii, Texas, and Florida all canceled this year, so there hasn't been much of anything exciting in the present to write about. There has been Stephen Strasburg in the Arizona Fall League, and a World Series that ran into November. I don't yet know much about the Mexican Pacific League, Venezuelan, or Caribbean winter leagues.

My older posts, where I muse about a continental winter league, can be verbose and rambling, but I think I've mostly worked that through my system, and if not, I'll use a cut tag and headline with a warning. The warning is crucial. Folks expecting usual sports talk under the cut might find rambling about tiny details of sports law, sports business, sports economics, and crazy schemes to gain television exposure.

I can obsess about Canada. How many baseball-friendly domes are in Canada? Why did so many teams at the minor league level leave Canada around the turn of the century? Is there still a market for the Montreal Expos? Is Olympic Stadium really as crappy as most opinions hold it to be? The country is just so ripe for the conquest of a new league, you know? I see the population statistics for their metropolitan areas, and there are no teams!

If anyone joins and gets tired of my antics, we can talk about community moderation. *Shrugs*

Current Mood: hyper

Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman wins a gold glove award.

Does this make the Nationals a little less of a laughingstock? No? Well, I don't care, it still feels awesome. Congratulations Z-man!

Poll #1484057 Great Infield
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 42

The Yankee Infield is being called one of the greatest ever. I chose a number of all time infield. Probably omitted too many old ones. Who do you think is the best?

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4642952

So, Sammy Sosa says that the use of a skin cream caused the super lightening of his skin.

I find it hard to believe anything he says, considering he lied about steroid use for years (or so I believe) 

(With player, gold gloves won and team)

P-Mark Buehrle, 1, White Sox
C-Joe Mauer, 2, Twins
1B-Mark Teixeira, 3, Yankees
2B-Placido Polanco, 2, Tigers
3B-Evan Longoria, 1, Rays
SS-Derek Jeter, 4, Yankees
OF-Adam Jones, 1, Orioles
OF-Ichiro Suzuki, 9, Mariners
OF-Torii Hunter, 9, Angels

Congrats to Longoria, Jones, and Buehrle earning their first.

Obviously I'm excited for Jeter (especially given that this is his best defensive season in years and he's worked hard to improve his range and become one of the best defensive SSs in the league). And Tex is a defensive beast and while I was upset with is offensive production throughout this postseason, I'd want no one else covering first. Couldn't be happier with those two awards. :)

So, the World Series is over and it's likely that your team didn't win it.

Anyway, did you hear that A-Rod had not one, but two oil portaits commissioned in which he is depicted as a centaur?

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What's everyone's favorite moments of this season (for your team and/or teams in general)? I got a few moments that I've found myself going back to look at, numerous times.

In no particular order

1. Luis Castillo's dropped pop-up. As a Yankee fan, how could I not love this one? At first I was angry at us for losing, but then suddenly we won the game.

(Video here)

2. Eric Bruntlett's game-ending unassisted Triple-Play. Just amazing. I wish I could experience something like that live just to look at the puzzled fans who needed a few extra moments to process what just happened in front of them.

(Video here)


3. Dewayne Wise's catch and Mark Buerle's eventual perfect game. As the President said during a call to Buerle... treat Wise to a dinner. This catch still amazes me.

(Video here)

4. Nick Swisher's strikeout, scoreless inning and 0.00 ERA. This was especially hilarious because it was the best pitching the Yankees offered in an embarrassing early season game in which the Rays offense dominated us. This outing was almost worth team's pitchers being charged with 15 earned runs.

(Video here)

5. Philly Dad. I'm assuming you all saw this. Hilarity. This family got a nice fifteen minutes of fame from this, as well as a new baseball from the Phillies organization. Good for them.

(Video here)

6. Mariano Rivera's first RBI. Just seeing this guy hold a bat is full of LOLz. And even though I'm no Mets-hater, a good K-Rod collapse never hurt anyone.

(Video here)

OK, now that the season's over and everything in this community has quieted down, I thought it was time I posted this scene from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." This just cracks me up.

(I hope it's OK to embed a video here.)

THE NEW YORK YANKEES


http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=7120029&c_id=nyy&topic_id=7224214

What a night by matsui!

And so...the offseason has begun! Comments? Opinions?

So, now that Chase Utley has tied Reggie Jackson for the most HR's in one World Series, can Utley be called the new Mr. October? Will he need to break the record? Will Jackson always be Mr. October no matter what?

WORLD SERIES 2009

Yankees Vs. Phillies

Thoughts? Predictions? Or anyone just wanna sound off?