Pujols Makes Me Look Pathetic
« American Idol, er, MLB Comes to Town | Main | Cardinal Dynasties »Albert Pujols continued to make the average man look absolutely pathetic tonight by winning his fourth St. Louis Baseball Man of the Year award in four years.
Two other (ex)Cardinals honored at the event, Mike Matheny and Woody Williams, picked up the J. Roy Stockton/Bob Broeg Award for outstanding achievement in baseball and the Darryl Kile Award (recognizing the traits "of a good teammate, a great friend, a fine father and a humble man"), respectively.
Also featured, the 1985 Cardinals, one of only two other Cardinal teams since WWII to win more than 100 games. Former manager Whitey Herzog tossed a bouquet of flowers to Tony La Russa before speaking:
"Sometimes when you lose the last game you play, especially when you're in the World Series, people tend to think less of what you accomplished," said Herzog. "For the 2004 team to win 105 games is one hell of a feat. ... I guarantee you if that damn first game in Boston had gone the other way, that would have been a hell of a World Series."
Coulda, shoulda, woulda.
The only thing I've managed to do consistently over the past four years is pay my taxes on time (well, most of 'em anyway) and not kill anyone.
Posted by Sean at January 20, 2005 12:24 AM"Albert Pujols continued to make the average man look absolutely pathetic tonight..."
Or to quote Tom Lehrer... "It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished."
Posted by: Len Cleavelin at January 20, 2005 10:24 AMKirstie Alley doing her best Jake Plummer, too funny. And I don't think that would be murder anyway, more like some abstract form of self-defense. You'd only need to convince one juror.
Pujols. I need to admit, I'm still nervous about the guy. Not because he's injured, not because I don't know what he's done. In fact, it's like I know what he's done, and that's what makes me nervous. How can he possibly continue to repeat?
I think every season Pujols is Pujols sticks a thorn in the neck of guys like MGL, who insist upon regressing any given player to the universal mean, rather than seriously entertaining the notion that the "universal mean" is actually a bunch of different means (with their own distributions) clumped together.
But I mean (pun intended), Pujols is just doing his own damn thing; he's the mean to his own distribution of one. He seems completely unaware of what he should be doing. I hope nobody tells him.
Posted by: Ryan at January 20, 2005 03:58 PMdoes anyone happen to be selling a tito landrum jersey?
Posted by: fitz at January 20, 2005 04:59 PM