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Old 11-12-2008, 12:44 PM
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an excerpt from an article summarizing the NL ROY voting...

"Making the voting even more bizarre, Cincinnati pitcher Edinson Volquez finished fourth with three second-place votes, despite being ineligible for the award because he was not officially a rookie."


And these same people help decide our college football champion
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Old 11-12-2008, 12:46 PM
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Probably the same writers who refuse to vote for Japanese rookies
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And I don't think he received any votes for the CYA.
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Old 11-12-2008, 12:59 PM
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Do you think he should have?
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No, not when you only get 3 votes. Volquez wouldn't crack my top 3. It's just funny that he received votes for an award he wasn't eligible for, then got none for one which he was (and you could easily argue that he was as deserving of votes as Sabathia or certainly Dempster.)
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I'm guessing the two writers from Cincinnati did that. Called "greasing the wheels" for future interviews and information.
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Parody thread work in progress: "Underwriters are morans".
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No, not when you only get 3 votes. Volquez wouldn't crack my top 3. It's just funny that he received votes for an award he wasn't eligible for, then got none for one which he was (and you could easily argue that he was as deserving of votes as Sabathia or certainly Dempster.)
Dempster was more worthy of votes than Volquez. Dempster was top 5, Volquez was top 10, but they were close.

Sabathia, yeah, that argument's been had.
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