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King Felix deserved this, it is good to see him get it.

Writers vote on this and it is suppose to be with 28 ballots cast by two writers in each league city according to the Baseball Writers of America Association. Here is the list of writers and their 1st place votes. Who represents Baltimore????

Hernandez: Ken Rosenthal, Fox; Amalie Benjamin, Boston Globe; Michael Silverman, Boston Herald; Erik Boland, Newsday; Joe Smith, St. Petersburg Times; Mark Gonzales, Chicago Tribune; Lynn Henning, Detroit News; John Lowe, Detroit Free Press; Sam Mellinger, Kansas City Star; Joe Posnanski, SI.com; Joe Christensen, Minneapolis Star Tribune; John Shipley, St. Paul Pioneer Press; Hirokazu Higuchi, Chunichi Shimbun (LA); Tim Brown, Yahoo Sports; Jorge Ortiz, USA Today; Ray Ratto, At Large (SF/Oakland); Kirby Arnold, Everett Herald; Larry Stone, Seattle Times; Richard Durrett, At Large (Dallas-Fort Worth); Anthony Andro, Fort Worth Star Telegram; Morgan Campbell, Toronto Star.

Price: Mel Antonen, USA Today; Tony Fabrizio, Tampa Tribune; Phil Rogers, Chicago Tribune; Chris Assenheimer. Elyria (OH) Chronicle.

Sabathia: George King, New York Post; Bob Elliott, Toronto Sun; Sheldon Ocker, Akron Beacon Journal.

Sabathia got a 1st place vote from George King representing a NY paper, Price got a 1st place vote from Tony Fabrizio representing a TB paper, and Feliz got 1st place votes from Kirby Arnold and Larry Stone representing local papers. If the Os had a candidate, who are the local writers who might lean toward him because they are from Baltimore?

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King Felix deserved this, it is good to see him get it.

Writers vote on this and it is suppose to be with 28 ballots cast by two writers in each league city according to the Baseball Writers of America Association. Here is the list of writers and their 1st place votes. Who represents Baltimore????

Hernandez: Ken Rosenthal, Fox; Amalie Benjamin, Boston Globe; Michael Silverman, Boston Herald; Erik Boland, Newsday; Joe Smith, St. Petersburg Times; Mark Gonzales, Chicago Tribune; Lynn Henning, Detroit News; John Lowe, Detroit Free Press; Sam Mellinger, Kansas City Star; Joe Posnanski, SI.com; Joe Christensen, Minneapolis Star Tribune; John Shipley, St. Paul Pioneer Press; Hirokazu Higuchi, Chunichi Shimbun (LA); Tim Brown, Yahoo Sports; Jorge Ortiz, USA Today; Ray Ratto, At Large (SF/Oakland); Kirby Arnold, Everett Herald; Larry Stone, Seattle Times; Richard Durrett, At Large (Dallas-Fort Worth); Anthony Andro, Fort Worth Star Telegram; Morgan Campbell, Toronto Star.

Price: Mel Antonen, USA Today; Tony Fabrizio, Tampa Tribune; Phil Rogers, Chicago Tribune; Chris Assenheimer. Elyria (OH) Chronicle.

Sabathia: George King, New York Post; Bob Elliott, Toronto Sun; Sheldon Ocker, Akron Beacon Journal.

Sabathia got a 1st place vote from George King representing a NY paper, Price got a 1st place vote from Tony Fabrizio representing a TB paper, and Feliz got 1st place votes from Kirby Arnold and Larry Stone representing local papers. If the Os had a candidate, who are the local writers who might lean toward him because they are from Baltimore?

Pretty sure the Baltimore Sun doesn't allow its writers to vote.

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Why doesn't the Sun allow their writers to participate? I can't imagine a real good reason NOT to have them vote. Seems to be part of the fun parts of being a sportswriter.

Something about how the people reporting on the news shouldn't be making the news. Schmuck's mentioned it a couple times, and probably Roch as well back when he worked there.

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Something about how the people reporting on the news shouldn't be making the news. Schmuck's mentioned it a couple times, and probably Roch as well back when he worked there.

Still never made any sense to me. Just no sense at all. Only reason (not justification) I could ever glean was that The Sun (Tribune Corp. et al...) was completely against their employees. Like in a union vs. management way. Just default to giving them NO rights, just because. Fight against EVERY little thing above that.

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