The New York Times is in trouble. Apparently, it may consider selling it's 17% share in the Boston Red Sox. Perhaps its 17% share is actually embedded in its ownership of the Boston Globe. Either way, New York's main newspaper should have nothing to do with the Boston Red Sox.
The New York Times does not have any writers that vote on player awards, but would there be a conflict of interest if a voter works for a paper that owns a team that would owe a player a bonus in the event that he wins an award? If so, then the New York Post obviously didn't own the Yankees in 1999 when George King inexplicably voted Derek Jeter for MVP and left Pedro off the ballot after Pedro had the best season any player has had in our lifetimes (I speak of the writers of this blog, none of whom exceed 24 in age), other than perhaps his 2000 season.
Um, yeah, I'm not bitter about that vote at all....
Schadenfreude 359 (A Continuing Series)
3 weeks ago
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Even if you expand it beyond our lifetimes, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find many (if any) better seasons than the two-year stretch Pedro had.
In related media-corruption news, Gov. Blagojevich was going to try to block the sale of the Cubs if the Tribune Company didn't fire writers critical of his administration. Can Mark Sanford please be my governor again?
P.S. I heard Marky Mark on NPR today and I'm becoming more and more convinced that he'd be the perfect post-bailout candidate. Articulate (if not incredibly charismatic), intelligent, curious... many of the words used to describe Obama except the part where his ideology is consistent with that troublesome document on which our government is based.
funny, since Obama is supposedly a constitutional law professor.
marky mark sent a letter out to supporters opposing the bailout today. i replied begging him to run for president.
it's a shame that pedro invoked the curse of the bambino early in the 2001 season or that stretch could've gone even longer. after pitching the first couple of months in 2001 as well as the previous two seasons, he said, "Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." he quickly proceeded to the DL, where he has been on and off for the remainder of his career. Bill Simmons sums it up nicely:
http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?id=1230709
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