4 Oh, I think Webb was far and away the best pitcher in the NL this year. But the BBWAA has this cute way of getting these awards horribly wrong (see Colon over Santana last year). So I'm shocked they got it right for a change.
Smoltzie should have been higher. But they got the right guy for once, even though it wasn't painfully obvious to the average sports-page meathead who it was.
Tomorrow there will be a bunch of columns bleeding at us about how Hoffman should have won.
If there was ever a closer to pitch fewer high leverage innings than Hoffman this year, I'd be interested in knowing who it was.
He never pitched more than an inning. It looks like about 33 of his innings were used in a situation where he only needed to not give up more than one run.
Granted, he didn't even give up that one run very often, but geez.
One time, my Japanese friend and I were sitting at a sushi bar, musing about the numerical naming tradition in Japan. We thought that a particular caucasian friend of ours would be named, "Shiro," or "fourth son"(a homophone for "white") and another friend who is black would be "Kuro," or "nineth son" (a homophone for "black").
Tomorrow there will be a bunch of columns bleeding at us about how Hoffman should have won.
He never pitched more than an inning. It looks like about 33 of his innings were used in a situation where he only needed to not give up more than one run.
Granted, he didn't even give up that one run very often, but geez.
Granted, also, that all of you already know this.
Unless the A.L. winner is a BIG surprise...
How are your brothers Ichiro and Giro?
One time, my Japanese friend and I were sitting at a sushi bar, musing about the numerical naming tradition in Japan. We thought that a particular caucasian friend of ours would be named, "Shiro," or "fourth son"(a homophone for "white") and another friend who is black would be "Kuro," or "nineth son" (a homophone for "black").
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