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Today's the Day

Posted on November 17, 2008 at 8:22 AM
Filed Under: Albert Pujols | Cardinal Nation | St. Louis Cardinals
It's NL MVP day!  Which means Cardinal nation is keeping a close eye out for the results.  You can see comments at VEB and 4thebirds....., to name a couple of places.

My personal feeling is that Pujols winds up winning the award tonight.  Besides the fact that it's fairly obvious from everything but the "team made the playoffs" angle that he deserves it, there seem to have been numerous columnists--not just St. Louis ones, but national ones, that have written that he should get the award over Ryan Howard.  Granted, there have been some for Howard as well, but you can see how well those have gone over.

Besides, it would be very symetrical.  Pujols was denied an MVP in 2006 by Howard, even though his team went to the playoffs (and won the World Series, though obviously that was after the voting) while Howard and the Phillies stayed home.  Same situation this year in reverse.  Even Phillies fans understand that.

Heck, Pujols was even the people's choice!  (I guess Rasmussen threw that question in while canvassing for political opinion!)  And he was the computer's choice!  Talk about bringing opposite sides together.

You look at the list of awards that the man has won this offseason and you just have to figure that the MVP is due to be added in.  I'm confident that he'll take home the award today.

If he doesn't, VEB's right--we can just stop paying the little attention we do to awards because they aren't worth much.




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[November 17, 2008 5:23 PM]  |  link  |  Reply
Deaner said

The voters certainly got this one right - Pujols is NL MVP for the 2008 season!

[November 17, 2008 5:49 PM]  |  link  |  Reply
Cardinal70 said

No doubt. It might have touched off a civil war between stats and non-stats if he hadn't! :)

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