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The announcement of the AL MVP will be at 2 pm ET, 11 am PT and Bronx Banter will have the news/celebration/recriminations.
But George King of the New York Post thinks that it will be a tie between Derek Jeter and Justin Morneau.
There was one tie before in 1979 in the NL between Keith Hernandez and Willie Stargell.
A tie should be relatively hard to pull off because of the balloting method. Each voter is required to rank 10 candidates. Points are awarded in this manner: 14-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. And with the possibility of three or four players receiving first places votes, everything would have to break just right to get a tie.
Personally, I believe any ties should be decided in the House of Representatives, or, alternatively, by the use of odds and evens.
The closest AL MVP race was in 1947 when Joe DiMaggio beat out Ted Williams by one point, but a different ranking system was used then. Under current voting rules, the closest race was in 1996 when Juan Gonzalez edged Alex Rodriguez by three points.
http://www.worldrps.com/
Nonagons are the way to go.
MLB's post-season awards rank somewhere between the Grammys and the Blue Moon, Missouri Register's annual Player of the Year Awards, voted on every year by the students of Mrs Huber's fourth-grade social studies class at Harry Truman Elementary, which had gone to Mark McGwire every year since 1998 until last year, when Albert Pujols emerged the victor. I try to find them amusing.
And Plaschke wasn't even born yet!
Take that, Celzic!
Mauer
Jeter
Santana
Ortiz
Hafner
Dye
Ramirez
Thome
Thomas
Sizemore
Not to mention
Guillen
Tejada
Guerrero
-BBWAA
I wouldn't have had Morneau in my top 10. He's not even one of the six best players in his own division.
I have to remind myself that I don't care.
almost as big a blunder as Morneau winning it.
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