Congrats to Joe Maddon of the Rays. It would have been unanimous if whoever the delusional Minnesotan who voted for Gardenhire was sober. What do you expect? They apparently want Al Franken to be their U.S. Senator, so this slides down a little bit on the egregious scale from Minnesotans.
The Twins reporter must be drinking buddies with the Milwaukee reporter who cast a protest vote for Dale Sveum who only managed twelve games. That is just dumb. But what do you expect when you reporters the ballot?
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FROM THE Associated Press:
Maddon And Piniella Named Managers Of The Year
NEW YORK -- Joe Maddon easily won the American League Manager of the Year award Wednesday after guiding the Tampa Bay Rays from baseball's basement to the World Series. Lou Piniella of the Chicago Cubs took the NL honor.
He received all but one of the 28 first-place votes -- the other went to the Minnesota Twins' Ron Gardenhire.
There has never been a unanimous winner for manager of the year.
Piniella led the NL Central champion Cubs to the league's best record and beat out Charlie Manuel of the World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies to earn his third manager of the year award and first in the NL.
Manager of Year voting
The Rays' Joe Maddon was named the 2008 AL Manager of the Year, while the Cubs' Lou Piniella was voted as the NL's top skipper in '08.
AL voting Manager 1st 2nd 3rd Total
Maddon, Rays 27 1 -- 138
Ron Gardenhire, Twins 1 15 8 58
Mike Scioscia, Angels -- 12 9 45
Others receiving votes: Terry Francona, Red Sox, 6; Ozzie Guillen, White Sox, 3; Cito Gaston, Blue Jays, 2.
NL voting Manager 1st 2nd 3rd Total
Piniella, Cubs 15 8 4 103
Charlie Manuel, Phillies 8 6 9 67
Fredi Gonzalez, Marlins 5 6 5 48
Others receiving votes: Joe Torre, Dodgers, 45; Tony La Russa, Cardinals, 11; Jerry Manuel, Mets, 10; Cecil Cooper, Astros, 3; Dale Sveum, Brewers, 1.
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UPDATE:
My apologies to Minnesota sportswriters, it was a CLEVELAND sportswriter who voted for Gardenhire. Sorry Minnesota, but you're still on the hook for Al Franken, which may be an even greater crime.
FROM THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
November 13, 2008
Pluto defends voting Maddon No. 2 for AL Manager of Year
Terry Pluto, a veteran columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, has gone through pretty much everything in his 30-plus years in journalism, from winning awards to writing more than a dozen books.
"But this," Pluto told the Times this morning, "Is a new one."
Pluto was the voter who kept Rays manager Joe Maddon from being the first unanimous Manager of the Year Award recipient in baseball history. Maddon received 27 of 28 first place votes, with Twins Ron Gardenhire getting the other, and Angels' Mike Scioscia getting third.
Pluto voted Gardenhire No. 1 and Maddon No. 2, and joked he now has "many fans in Tampa" after getting more than 20 emails from puzzled Rays fans.
But here's Pluto's explanation:
Gardenhire's Twins didn't make the playoffs (they lost in one-game playoff with the White Sox for the AL Central title), but voting was done in the final week of the regular season. Pluto said he has absolutely nothing against Maddon, whom he has a lot of respect for. It was just a tough decision at the time.
"The voting is done in the final week of the season, so I did not have the playoffs to consider," Pluto said. "If they did the voting after, certainly Joe would have got it. I had great respect for both men, and gave the edge to Gardenhire for keeping his team in contention after losing Santana, etc. I had no idea how anyone else was voting. I certainly didn't set out to stiff Joe by being the lone voice not to have him No. 1."
- JOE SMITH
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UPDATE II: Writer explains his moronic decision to Rays blogger who seems to be equally clueless.
http://www.bugsandcranks.com/tampa-bay-devil-rays/david-chalk/al-moy-voter-pluto-i-may-be-a-moron/
David Chalk from Bugs & Cranks (a site listed as a favorite) chastises the Cleveland writer who denied Maddon his unanimous MOY award. But in doing so, he continues to refer to the Rays as the Devil Rays!!!!
He even goes so far as to suggest the writer may have had secret religious motives for not voting for a "devil" Ray. PLEASE.
David, did you not get the memo??? They've been the RAYS all year!!!
Even for a blogger, a little bit sloppy, irresponsible and below the belt writing.
Don't you think you should be better than that? A mea culpa may be in order here. At the very least.
To David Chalk and the normally good folks at B&C:
Trust me, on this one, they are laughing at you, not with you..
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