Mook vs Fall baseball

Does anybody care about baseball anymore?
i think everyone has moved on to football. We're already thinking about the heisman and national championship games in college. We're already deciding some teams are out of the playoff race and some are the teams to beat.
We forgot about baseball.

It's still around. Fortunately for me, many have forgot about it in my fantasy leagues and i moved into first place in one league and gaining more points in others...

i guess there were some exciting things this year, but now it's fading. When the Rockies were hot that was exciting- the Rockies are always exciting in September, but not many others are. The Wild Card is still up for grabs in the NL, but it's only because the two teams left fighting for it have both given up HUGE leads in their division. That's not exciting at all. They are losing their way to the play-offs, only hoping the other team loses more.

There were some hopes for triple crown winners - in both leagues! But Josh HAmilton got hurt, which killed his chances- but also hurt Miguel Cabrerra as Hamiltons' average never came down. IT was even more exicitng before Justin Morneau got hurt.
In the NL, Albert Pujols clearly wasn't himself- perhaps because i owned him on a few fantasy teams this year. He still came close to a triple crown though, but he and the Cards faded down the stretch.
Tulo may have had a chance at it, but like Hamilton injuries knocked him out. We don't think of him that way, because his long stretch on the DL was much earlier. His teammate CarGo was much closer. Still the story is Joey Votto, because he almost didn't make the all-star team (Actually, did Car Go make the team?).


my votes for awards
NL MVP
1. Joey Votto
2. Tulo
3. Pujols
4. Car Go
others...
5. A Gone
6. Halladay
7. Prado

AL MVP
1. Josh Hamilton
2. Miggy
3. Paul Konerko
4. Robinson Cano
others
5. Evan Longoria
6. Adrian Beltre
7. Carl Crawford
8. Jose Bautista
9. Joe Mauer


NL CY
all the attention was on Ubaldo and Halladay, but...
1. Wainright
2. Halladay
3. Ubaldo
4. Tim Hudson
5. Josh Johnson
6. Heath Bell
7. Tim Lincecum
8. Heath Bell
9. Billy Wagner
10. Mat Latos
11. Roy Oswalt
12. Carp
others
13. Johan
14. Bret Myers
15. Brian Wilson
16. Jonothan Sanchez
17. Clayton Kershaw
18. Matt Cain


AL CY
everyone is making a big deal of old stats vs new stats... i think everyone is just getting caught in debate
1. David Price
2. Jon Lester
3. CC
4. Clay Buchholz
5. R Soriano
others
6. Cliff Lee
7. Justin Verlander
8. Felix
9. JEred Weaver
10. Trevor Cahill


Check it out: Wainright's numbers are right there with Halladays and would have been better if he made his last start...
21-10 2.44 era 219 k 1.04 whip Halladay
20-11 2.42 era 213 k 1.05 whip Wainright

And everyone is talking about Felix, but what about Jered Weaver
 Felix    13-12 2.27 era 232 k 1.06 whip
Weaver 13-12 3.02 era 229 k 1.08 whip

Manager of the year
1. Bobby Cox
2. Bud Black
3. Bruce Bochy
4. Ron Gardenhire
5. Ron Washington
6. Terry Francona
7. Ozzie Guillen
8. Dusty Baker
9. Jim Tracy
10. Charlie Manuel

as for the actual games...
i think the favorite has to be Philly: they're hot, their pitching is incredible and they're motivated. The Yanks don't seem motivated and their pitching isn't very good. i like the Reds, but they're too young. The Giants pitching could take them somewhere. The Rays are good, but will the lack of support do them in? And the twins don't seem to do much once they make the playoffs recently...
So i say Phils, Giants, Yanks, Rays, Twins, Reds, Rangers, Braves

i will be rooting for anyone other than the Phillies.