In fairness to Kruk:If I recall correctly, he name...

2005-08-11T14:18:00.000-04:00

In fairness to Kruk:

If I recall correctly, he named Figgins his 2004 AL MVP sometime around 9/1/04. By the end of the month, though, he switched his pick to Gary Sheffield. Why?

"Because he hits in the clutch."

Somewhere there is a book -- I imagine it to have ...

2005-08-11T02:48:00.000-04:00

Somewhere there is a book -- I imagine it to have a bright red cover, like the book you see in movies that guards our nuclear codes -- that contains all the baseball writers' cliches, to be used whenever a deadline is fast approaching and insight is nowhere to be found. One of these cliches is proclaiming a .275/.345/.450 kind of hitter who plays a lot of positions as that team's MVP. Craig Counsell, Chone Figgins, etc., as noted here in this post. I am not saying anything new here, except I would love for someone to write: "Here are the team MVP's this year: ARod, Manny, Halliday, Roberts/Tejada, Buerhle, Santana/Radke, etc. etc." Tony Graffanino has had a great few weeks, but if anyone tells me he is the Sox' MVP, well, I will log on and post something fierce! And upwards of 830 people might read it! Or I'll call dak and grouse until he tells he he has errands to do.

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In fairness to Kruk:If I recall correctly, he name...

Somewhere there is a book -- I imagine it to have ...