Award tour
CNNSI.com wins the 2005 Calendar Award contest with its poll question of the day: Which June event are you most looking forward to?
MLB All-Star Game
NBA Finals
U.S. Open (golf)
Wimbledon
The All-Star Game actually had 14 percent of the vote, despite the fact that it takes place in July.
Kansas City Star columnist Jason Whitlock wins the Headline of the Day contest, regarding the Royals’ hiring of Buddy Bell as their new manager: “Surprise! This choice is stupid“
Bell won his debut last night, a 5-3 victory over the Yankees and Kevin Brown in which Zack Greinke finally posted a win despite a number of strong starts thus far this season.
Dave Perkins of the Toronto Star wins the Delusion of the Day contest, urging the Blue Jays to get into the Roger Clemens sweepstakes.
“Maybe he wouldn’t want to try it here again. Maybe he’d prefer the Rangers, who are tight with the Angels in the AL West,” he writes. “But maybe he’d return for a couple of months if he thought the Jays had a shot and were serious.”
There is not a chance in Hades Clemens will return north of the border, a place he surely regrets ever going in the first place. The Rangers though are becoming more and more of an intriguing possibility by the day.
Devil Rays general manager Chuck LaMar wins the Whine of the Day contest, by blasting the MLB draft system that has the Red Sox getting five compensation picks before the Rays can use their second pick in next week’s draft.
“For the world champion Boston Red Sox to have five or six picks between our eighth pick and 58th, something is not right,” LaMar said Tuesday in St. Petersburg at a draft preview media session. “And that’s not blaming the Boston Red Sox, it has nothing to do with them. It has to do with the system that I think has needed to be changed for years.”
See, it’s not crappy management and decisions after all.
Jonathan Comey wins the You Don’t Say Award by telling us the Patriots are good.
USA Today’s Jon Saraceno wins the Hot Topic of 1993 Award by telling us that Native American nicknames should not be used in sports.
And Major League Baseball finally wins the Three Games to Glory Award with its DVD release of all of last year’s ALCS and World Series games, featuring 11 discs in all, for around $100.
