Saturday, October 01, 2005

Joe Torre's MVP

My apologies for the long absence. On occasion, I have to do real work instead of writing. Sad but true...

In case anyone missed it, Joe Torre cast his MVP vote last night, and he cast it for David Ortiz. After tying up the game in the bottom of the first with his league-leading 147th RBI, Ortiz got nothing decent to hit for the rest of the night. Only a nice play by Chien-Ming Wang kept Papi from knocking in another run in the third, and after that we was intentionally walked and semi-intentionally walked because Joe Torre would rather see a certain Hall-of-Famer in the batter's box than David Ortiz.

Funny, but I don't recall the Red Sox intentionally walking A-Rod last night. Or any other night this season, for that matter...