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<HR style="COLOR: #fdde82" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->ARTICLE FROM ESPN TODAY, I think Kojack's isn't off his rocker, just making some good points.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/quickie
The Lead Item
Two Words For You:
YANKEE. PRIDE.
Jason Giambi for AL MVP?!?!
2 more HR, 4 RBI on Monday:
That's 4 and 11 in 2 games.
If New York somehow passes the Red Sox for the division title, voters have to consider the unthinkable:
Giambi for MVP.
I'm even more inclined to give him MVP than Comeback Player of the Year, which feels funny given exactly
what he's coming back from.
But delivering top-5 OPS and a division crown (after that brutal start?!) would put him right in the MVP mix, along with A-Rod, Vlad and Big Papi.
Of course, Vlad's Angels and Papi's Red Sox could finish with September swoons, hardly MVP-ish. And voters and fans may like A-Rod even less than Giambi.
And there's still time for a slump like the one Giambi was riding for 19 games until Sunday.
But, wait! What's this I heard from Giambi on Monday night about a cortisone shot that seemed to sort out the tendinitis that was holding him back?
Right: "Cortisone."
For "tendinitis."
(Insert air quotes yourself.)
See: Semi-serious jokes like that symbolize why Giambi will
never be considered a legit MVP candidate in 2005, if ever again.
Even though he's earned it.
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5teamparlay,
I appreciate you posting some hard evidence on this topic. It is nice to know that I am not the only one that has noticed what has been happening.