Mauer beats Tesheria for the Babe Ruth Award

post from The Ghost of Babe Ruth on 23 November 2009 04:22:00 PM. © The Ghost of Babe Ruth

I'm not upset that Tesheria and Jeter lost out on the MVP award to Joe Mauer. Did you see the numbers Mauer posted last year? And he's a catcher? I'd've voted for him too.

Awards, schmawards, is what I always say. (Ask Sheehy.) In '27 I hit 60 jacks* and they gave the MVP award to Lou because they had a pointless rule that nobody could win it twice. I would've won about 8 MVPs if they hadn't had that rule. You know how they named the pitching award after Cy Young and the Rookie of the Year Award after Jackie Robinson? If it weren't for that damned rule, they would've named the MVP award after me, so Joe Mauer today would've won the Babe Ruth Award. Instead, the Babe Ruth Award is allegedly the MVP of the World Series as named by the Sporting News, but nobody calls it that and the award was discontinued in 2003. What a travesty.

*Is "jacks" the word the kids use these days instead of home run? I haven't been watching much SportsCenter lately. Back in my day we called hitting a home run "beating the Dutch" and a home run was a "Dutch-beater."**

**I could be mistaken.

Starting today, I want to start a grassroots movement to rename the MVP Award as the Babe Ruth Award. Who's with me?

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