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The Fall Of The Republic: NL Cy Young Voting Shows BBWAA's Incompetence

by Lewie Pollis

From Plato to Voltaire, the Republic has been the government of choice for intellectuals for millennia. Dismissive of people’s ability to rule themselves, yet similarly wary of totalitarianism, ...

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Griffin Cooper commented on The Fall Of The Republic: NL Cy Young Voting Shows BBWAA's Incompetence

The voters got both Cy Young awards right this year, finally. Lincecum and Greinke were both the best pitchers in their respective leagues. And I'm not...

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Griffin Cooper commented on The Fall Of The Republic: NL Cy Young Voting Shows BBWAA's Incompetence

The voters got both Cy Young awards right this year, finally. Lincecum and Greinke were both the best pitchers in their respective leagues. And I'm not...

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Matt Foote commented on The Fall Of The Republic: NL Cy Young Voting Shows BBWAA's Incompetence

Tim Lincecum got the award. but the real winner is Wanwright. That is my official statement. Like I have said since Kyle McClellan was denied any...

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Matt Foote commented on The Fall Of The Republic: NL Cy Young Voting Shows BBWAA's Incompetence

Tim Lincecum got the award. but the real winner is Wanwright. That is my official statement. Like I have said since Kyle McClellan was denied any...

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kyle mclaughlin commented on The Fall Of The Republic: NL Cy Young Voting Shows BBWAA's Incompetence

although I disagree with your opinion of who should have won it's easy to understand why you thought carpenter should have because he had a great...

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Hotnuke commented on The Fall Of The Republic: NL Cy Young Voting Shows BBWAA's Incompetence

Awesome. Simply awesome. Every single one of those voters who gave Wainwright a first-place vote should never vote again...lol

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  Unfortunately, intelligence is not a prerequisite for voting. Thanks for reading!

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David Martin commented on The Fall Of The Republic: NL Cy Young Voting Shows BBWAA's Incompetence

While I agree with you that the BBWAA are generally wrong, I have to say that they got this one right. Lincecum is so dominant its...

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  David, Like I said, while I disagree with the top choice (see http://bleacherreport.com/articles/287980-heres-your-cy-why-chris-carpenter-is-the-nl-cy-young if you're interested...
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  Thanks for reading, Ash! I understand that casual fans look at the W's and L's first....
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I love being right.

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Absolutely Not commented on Here's Your Cy: Why Chris Carpenter Is the NL Cy Young

If you wamt to know why Lincecum won (when I said Carpenter won, I was referring to the IBWAA Cy Young), sort this by WAR: http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=nl&qual=y&type=6&season=2009&month=0...

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He deserves it more then Lincecum...

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