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And the Award For Best (or Worst?) Sense Of Irony Goes To...

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Jan 26 2013 01:18 PM

... The New York Pro Baseball Scouts, who, as per Kevin Kernan and others, presented their Award for Sportswriting Excellence this year to Ken Davidoff... ... the Dick Young Award for Sportswriting Excellence. Which, y'know, just kind of fits perfectly.

bmfc1 Jan 26 2013 02:38 PM Re: And the Award For Best (or Worst?) Sense Of Irony Goes T

Pathetic. I didn't even know he was with The Post until he pulled off that hatchet job on RA. If he's considered to be the best, that doesn't say much for the rest of them.

MFS62 Jan 26 2013 04:34 PM Re: And the Award For Best (or Worst?) Sense Of Irony Goes T

bmfc1 wrote: Pathetic. I didn't even know he was with The Post until he pulled off that hatchet job on RA. If he's considered to be the best, that doesn't say much for the rest of them. It says a LOT about the rest of them. Later

John Cougar Lunchbucket Jan 26 2013 05:40 PM Re: And the Award For Best (or Worst?) Sense Of Irony Goes T

I don't think Davidoff is all that bad (ducks).

metirish Jan 26 2013 05:44 PM Re: And the Award For Best (or Worst?) Sense Of Irony Goes T

I think he was caught out pretty badly with his reasoning for keeping Piazza out of the HOF, his numbers just didn't add up did they?

G-Fafif Jan 26 2013 05:48 PM Re: And the Award For Best (or Worst?) Sense Of Irony Goes T

Unpopularity for gratuitous Dickey-trashing, off-kilter Mike-appraising aside, I'm not sure what makes Davidoff worthy of an award, unless it's just one of those buddy-buddy, whose-turn-is-it? types of things.

metirish Jan 26 2013 05:49 PM Re: And the Award For Best (or Worst?) Sense Of Irony Goes T

Well, it was named after a dick.

Edgy MD Jan 26 2013 05:50 PM Re: And the Award For Best (or Worst?) Sense Of Irony Goes T

I think he was caught out pretty badly with his reasoning for keeping Piazza out of the HOF, his numbers just didn't add up did they? On the other hand, somebody had the light on for Kenny Lofton. He tried to sort it out with numbers and reason, and came up with a dispassionate answer. I disagree with his ballot, but I bet if everybody took such an approach, we'd be a lot happier with the overall results.

Ashie62 Jan 26 2013 06:39 PM Re: And the Award For Best (or Worst?) Sense Of Irony Goes T

I don't see Davidoff being better than their own Mike Vaccaro, my personal favorite for fairness and range.