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- From: sgs@stein.u.washington.edu (Steven Smith)
- Subject: Re: NL MVP voting oddities
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.000110.12101@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- References: <1992Nov19.180112.26096@Princeton.EDU> <steph.722300266@perseus.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:01:10 GMT
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- In article <steph.722300266@perseus.cs.uiuc.edu> steph@perseus.cs.uiuc.edu (Dale Stephenson) writes:
- >You're just not looking at the positive side of things. From the AL MVP
- >contest, here's some evidence that mediots aren't as brain dead as they
- >seem:
- >
- >Frank Thomas (8th) finished ahead of Cecil Fielder (9th) 108-83.
- >
- >Egdar Martinez (12th) got more votes than Jack Morris (13th) 29-18.
- >
- >:-> for the humor impaired.
-
- I don't know if I'm humor-impaired or not, but I certainly can't see Fielder
- being in the top 10 and Martinez out of it as evidence that the voters'
- EEGs have started registering anything but flat lines. All in all, I'd say
- this year's AL vote was one of the worst of the last few. Puckett and
- Carter 2-3?? Come on!
-
- --Steve
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