Biggest award mistake?

I think the exchange rate on the ballots affected the final totals.

 

The No. 1 pick on this list is still talked about up here. It escapes me now, but I'm sure you guys can name the writer from the DMN who left Pedro off his ballot.

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/MVPcontroversy.html

 

It wasn't even that great of a year. How do you justify Morneau winning an MVP with those numbers? If you think Morneau deserved MVP in 2006 then you must believe Eric Karros should have a mantle full of MVP since he had a bunch of years that were just as good.

 

The situations were never right for Bryant. He only deserved the one MVP he won. That's not to say the right person always won it over him.

But O'Neal should have won at least one more, the one Allen Iverson won. Any thoughts on that, 'Sote?

 

Note the trend in which awards are wrongly decided because of flagrant malfeasance by a voter (leaving worthy candidate off ballot). If one guy can screw up your process, it needs changing.
PS: Iverson had an unbelievable year when he won. He carried a very weak team to the Finals on his back.

 

The Eric Karros line pushes it into Manky territory, but otherwise, the troll is right on this one. Joe Mauer was better than Justin Morneau in 2006. Johan Santana was the most valuable player on the Twins.

 

The postseason is irrelevant.

 

He had an unbelievable year to GET that team to the playoffs.

 

Just going through old ballots, Ben Wallace got a 1st-place vote in 2003.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/spurs/2003-05-03-duncan-mvp_x.htm

 

This will never happen but Morneau's MVP should be rescinded and given to Jim Thome. Tejada's MVP from '03 should be given to Jeter.

 

Yeah, Sixers and Lakers won same # of games and Lakers obviously had Kobe (2nd-team All-NBA) and a much better all-around cast. Of course they did play in the tougher conference.

All in all I don't recall hearing much of a peep of controversy on that one at the time.

 

In fact, Shaq finished third that year -- Iverson got 93 first-place votes, Duncan 18 and Shaq 7.