Miguel Cabrera has a legitimate chance of winning the triple crown in baseball, something that hasn't been done since Carl Yastremski did it in 1967, that's a long time. The triple crown is the hardest single season feat to accomplish in all of sports, with only 15 in the last 125+ years. Cabrera leads the league in batting avg., RBI's and only trails Josh hamilton by 1 home run for the lead in that. He is the best hitter in baseball, period. However, he is not the MVP. The Detroit Tigers has the best hitter in baseball, 1 of the ten best hitters in baseball, protecting Cabrera in Prince Fielder, an excellent lead-off hitter in Austin Jackson, the BEST pitcher in baseball and should be back to back Cy Young award winner in Justin Verlander, an excellent No. 2 pitcher in Max Scherzer and a really good closer in Jose Valverde and yet they are currently not in the playoffs, why? Because defensively they stink and Miguel Cabrera is arguably the worse defensive 3rd baseman in baseball. Remember boys and girls, that in all sports, defense wins championships and that's why the Tigers are struggling to make the playoffs.
Which is why my winner is Mike Trout, sure his numbers pale in comparison to Cabrera's, but he missed the 1st 20 games cause he was in the minors and yes the Angels are currently out of the playoffs as well, but they were down right awful until they brought Trout up, now they are right in the hunt and they have a better record than the Tigers. Now that my friends is tangible evidence of a players MVP value.
Fact: Ryan Braun is having a better season than he had in his MVP season last year
Fact: It's even more impressive considering that Prince Fielder is no longer protecting him
Fact: The Brewers are in contention this year even though they had the worse bullpen in baseball and they traded away their best pitcher.
Fact: Ryan Braun was exonerated from being accused of using performance enhancing drugs
Fact: There is no way that Ryan Braun will win this year's NL MVP. No one is more cynical in sports, than the people who vote for these kind of awards and in their minds Ryan Braun is guilty even though he was found (not proven) innocent, so congratulations Buster Posey you should edge out Andrew McCutcheon for the N.L. MVP
Chicago Bears, Denver Broncos, N.Y. Jets and yes of course the Dallas Cowboys, you are on fraud alert. It's not that you lost last week that's bothersome, only the Cowboys were favored to win and that was just marginally, it's how you lost, you all played so well in week 1 that you were considered instant contenders and then week 2 you laid a big fat egg. I suspect 2 of you will right the ship (Bears, Broncos) while the other 2 (Cowboys and Jets) will continue with 'look we're the greatest' to 'holy shit I didn't realize we had a game today' week to week style of play.
Quick Question: When was the last time USC head coach Lane Kiffin won a big game? Exactly!!!
Picking them as the number 1 team in college football was laughable to begin with and now it's just ho-hum, typical Kiffin. Alabama is the best team in college football until someone proves otherwise, that being said, Florida St. is nipping on the Tide's heels as the best teams I've seen play so far. Monte Ball stayed for another year in Wisconsin cause he was projected as a 3rd round pick, he may now try to get a 5th year added, cause his stock is plummeting faster than Groupon's (check it out Groupon sucks right now)
Randomest Thoughts:
The NFL replacement officials are so bad that I may have to put an asterisk on this season if it continues. Tony Gonzalez has the 2nd most receptions in the history of the NFL and he still trails Jerry Rice by 400!!! Jerry Rice is not the best player ever in the NFL but he is the most productive. The NBA training camp is just around the corner or as I like to call it the year where we start considering Lebron James as one of the 5 best to ever play the game and that's on the for real boo!!!
I went 3-2 last week. I Should have been 4-1, but the Broncos didn't go for the 2 point conversion and the score ended up 27-19 and I had the over of 46 and a HALF!!!
San Fancisco-7 over the Vikings ummm has anyone seen these 2 teams play yet
Bengals + 3.5 over the Skins Washington beat an overrated Saints team and lost to an OK Rams team, I expect the Bengals to win outright
Baltimore -2.5 over the Patriots Look I hate to go against Brady when he's coming off a loss, and about to play in a prime time game, but this is revenge time for the Ravens
Seattle +3.5 over the Packers I have a couple rule of thumbs when wagering on pro football, one of them is when whenever Seattle is at home and they are getting over 3.5 points I take them, ask Dallas
Patriots/Ravens u 49.5 That's a lot of points boo!!!
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