While his reasoning was not sound, he was debating Mike and Chris, so he sounded, you know, brilliant.

Not a single voter put Mauer second. That alone should tell you what's wrong here - the whole lot of them don't get it. And of the three voters who put Mauer third, one put Frank Thomas ahead of him. All, of course, had Morneau #1.

"• The guy who put Jeter sixth.
• The guy who put Mauer 10th ... and the five guys who left him off their ballots entirely.
• The three guys who put Frank Thomas second.
• The guy who put A.J. Pierzynski 10th."

http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?name=law_keith

Joe Crowley
Allan Ryan
Sheldon Ocker
Sussan Slusser
Danny Knobler
Joe Roderick
John Hickey
Jason Williams

The following are on notice, along with their respective publications:

Thom Lovello
Mel Antonen
Ed Price
Sean McAdam
Larry Millson
Mark Gonzales
Joe Christensen
Matt Hurst
Doug Padilla
Larry Stone

But if it's anything, MLB is slow to change. AND that's a slow death for a great but sadly slow game. Sad, because they won't ever see it much less do it.

What compounds that is, I knew a young writer who had the Mets beat for a Pennsylvania paper. He was resistant to even discussing new ideas for baseball. Enough said. . ..

Maybe you sez I don't get out enough, and maybe you iz right. But still.

The LA Newspaper Group refers to a large group of suburban papers, of which the Daily News (Woodland Hills) is the largest.

OK, I'll bite. Why? Are Otis Chandler and Happy Chandler related or something?

But I won't be reading these guys' stories online either, which I suppose hurts portals like Yahoo! too.

Some newspapers believe that their reporters should not influence the events they are covering. E.g., if college football teams can go to a big bowl game because they are ranked higher, some find it wrong to have the reporters decide who it is and then vote on it.

Then again I'm related to an elector for the US Soccer Hall of Fame.