"Why Would We Honor This Man? Have We Run Out Of Human Beings?"

I’m very torn about this. As a fan, I was very, very pleased to see Jeter not win. The scholar in me sees this as idiocy even by the standards of AL MVP voters, in a league with Gonzalzes over Rodriguez or Bell over Trammell. I wish they had at least voted for Mauer, so it would be colorable, but Morneau is the third-best player on his own team. Ah well, Pasta Diving somehow has two Gold Gloves–live by irrational voters, die by another set of irrational voters.

This also makes clear that, while there has been a clear New York bias in Hall of Fame voting, there is if anything a New York anti-bias in MVP voting. The strange thing is that for most of his career Jeter has been staggeringly overrated–and yet he’s now probably been screwed out of two MVP awards.