ProudMary

Week 11: 3/5* (M,Tu,W) YTD: 30/55 (54.5%) I've lost count of the asterisks already. 🙃

I've wanted to post the NL MVP voting graphic here since it was awarded last night, but it wasn't posted on SM the way the (much shorter) AL graphic was. This one's so long it requires two attachments.

I hear you @mojoween, not to mention that during the MLB interview, Verducci had the unmitigated gall to bring up AJ's poor April. 🤬 You and I have discussed this here before, but his "poor April" was because he was injured for the better part of Spring Training! I never doubted that within a few weeks, he'd be his normal self. Instead, we were treated to not just normal, but to one of the best seasons in the history of the game! Fans of other teams will hate this comment, but I'm saying it anyway. This is actually Aaron Judge's third MVP award. Manfred should have had the stones to rescind the MVP award that was given to Altuve in 2017 after the level of Astros' cheating was uncovered. His '17 away numbers were inferior to his home numbers. Judge should rightly have joined Fred Lynn and Ichiro as players who won ROY and MVP in the same season. In my mind, Aaron Judge has joined Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle as NY Yankees who've won three MVP awards.

I said. "Shackin' up" for the Cohab Vocab TS, which certainly fit the first half of the clue, but I doubt it would have been an acceptable response as I'm betting there wasn't a book published during the Victorian era with that title! I really thought I had the correct FJ answer with Prague, as 1968 unrest screamed Czechoslovakia to me. I was a kid, but I have a distinct memory of watching the Russian tanks roll into the streets of Prague on the nightly news. 😞 My mind never even went to Paris as a possible answer.

Aaron Judge, AL MVP. Unanimous. Shohei Ohtani NL MVP. Unanimous.

AL Cy Young Award - Tarik Skubal, Tigers. (Unanimous)

NL Cy Young Award - Chris Sale, Braves.

AL Manager of the Year - Stephen Vogt, Guardians. NL Manager of the Year - Pat Murphy, Brewers.

Watch out, you might be flirtin' with disaster there!

Interesting stat: It's the first time since 1981 that both the NL and AL ROYs are starting pitchers!

The 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot has been released. Fourteen newcomers, fifteen holdovers.

From AP News: Astros ballpark to be renamed Daikin Park from Minute Maid Park on Jan. 1

I wanted to see if it would embed here automatically as YouTube and Twitter do. I'm wondering if that's something a moderator would have to set up. It's good to know that the link worked and that people who aren't on BlueSky were able to see it, so thanks for that feedback @SoMuchTV. I just chose a random post I'd seen. That one was about off-season baseball news. @ebk57 I didn't see any option to embed. I just copied the URL using the share function. I shared from the app and I was on my phone. When you saw the embed option, were you on a computer? If so, what browser?

https://bsky.app/profile/jonheyman.bsky.social/post/3lb3gtte7l22x

Week 10: 1/5. (Tu.) YTD: 27/50 (54%)