I just wanted to pop in and say Yay for Jim Tracy.

Truthfully, its been kind of a lousy couple of weeks.

I’m still job searching and getting rid of stuff from my apt, in case I have to up and move quickly. Had to get my car repaired (which is still not but whatever), family stuff. I wasn’t getting any feedback on any of the jobs I applied for and decided in the last few days I better rewrite my whole resume for the 5th time and its just so annoying!

I do miss the Row, but pesky life got in the way:(

One can always protest any line of conversation, but I thought the “Get over it”, comment was rather harsh.

and it seemed to carry a “shut up about it already” tone..which seemed intended to squelch the conversation.

My point (and, as RMN pointed out above, it may have been an erroneous straw man argument), was not that the Rockies get no love or anything of the kind. I’ve begun to care less and less about whether my favorite players win awards as long as they are valuable to the team and help them win. No, my problem is with people who vote for awards without doing the necessary research. In a lot of cases, there are benefits to receiving awards (both tangible – as a contract bonus; getting larger future contracts – and intangible – better consideration for the Hall of Fame and such like that), and it really matters to the players that they get awards. If writers (and managers in the case of Gold Gloves and Silver Sluggers) won’t do the necessary research in their votes and simply vote for the guy they see a lot or the guy that “everyone knows” is the best, then there can be miscarriages of justice. In this particular case, the right guy won. But, as evidenced by several votes, the crusade for correctness is not over.

Now, this may all be moot, I may be a braying jackass, and the three voters who didn’t vote for Tracy might have had really good, well thought out reasons for their votes, but if it was indeed hometown writers being lazy, then that’s a systemic problem and it bothers me a bit.

I realize that I started this, but really I was just venting. I didn’t necessarily desire or expect responses.

And as for Hizilla being overly harsh, I didn’t really mind that much. I have thick skin.

Done.

and I do think there is the “same as it ever was” and “let’s not monkey with the status quo” in the voting.

I think one can complain about a bad process and still be happy about the result:)

I would never vote a MoY whose team was 12 games under 500, but he deserves recognition for making that hapless team formidable down the stretch

Spending a year as a backup for the Dodgers isn’t exactly the same thing either. I imagine the focus is significantly different. My point was that neither guy stepped in directly from playing, they each had a year or more to “learn the ropes” in a lower pressure situation.

Wally Backman-style screw-up, a future is still possible. Look at Wally Backman. Just named as manager of the the Brooklyn Cyclones, that could be a message to Manuel. Oh, wait, there goes those NY rags running with a non-story story.

that Ausmus may be a fine Manager some day. But would you honestly rather just hand it over to him right now? Seems like an awful big leap to make. Teekalong really hit it on the head. After what the team did under Tracy – there was no way they were not going to extend him.

Last regular season win, though.

Comprehensible, comprehensible, not a bit reprehensible, it’s so defensible.

use hyphens and you can strike your whole argument out