Awards and big city bias

and what do you mean in your sig by "sports writers only choose know team"?

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Originally Posted by yamiviet

i meant is they only choose the team that was good the regular season and teams that are big cities

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Yeah, the Brewers were so much better than the Rockies...and Milwaukee is such a bigger city than Denver.

And Braun didn't win a gold glove.
:)

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Originally Posted by yamiviet

but philly rollins is more known player and he also was in a big city and they were divison champs

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Yeah, and, the Gold Glove awards are voted on by the managers and coaches of every team in the league...so, is every coach biased in favor of big cities?

lol. okay. If you say so. I'm sure the small team coaches just love the big cities and vote for players from the big cities.

The more likely factor is that Gold Gloves are based mostly on offense, which is backwards but never the less, a huge factor, and flashy plays.. See: Derek Jeter.

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Originally Posted by yamiviet

what i meant the big city teams choose the known player more than an unknown player

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But that's counteracted by the fact that the coaches of every team, big city and small city, vote for the award. It's not just the big city coaches. There's no "big city" bias in any of the award voting.

the Gold glove is a worthless statistic. it is based on NOTHING. Yes Maddux was one of the best fielding pitchers in his career but to give hime the gold glove EVERY year when statistacly there were better pitchers is bs... this coming from a Braves fan and a DIEHARD Maddux fan (lol tho he pees on people and smashed up rentals :p)

I just wish yami (among others) would make their signatures smaller is all (vertically, at least). Annoying.
(ps: thanks metsguy234! :))

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Originally Posted by ohms_law

I just wish yami (among others) would make their signatures smalleris all (vertically, at least). Annoying.
(ps: thanks metsguy234! :))

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AGREED!

Yeah, no kidding.

I wish he would have it in English as well.

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Originally Posted by HoustonGM

lol. okay. If you say so. I'm sure the small team coaches just love the big cities and vote for players from the big cities.

The more likely factor is that Gold Gloves are based mostly on offense, which is backwards but never the less, a huge factor, and flashy plays.. See: Derek Jeter.

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Derek Jeter, in my mind(and yes i know i am undervaluing jeter because hes a yankee) is the worst defensive SS to win a gold glove.

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Originally Posted by yamiviet

i meant is they only choose the team that was good the regular season and teams that are big cities. it would be cool if its real player

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Ya because in 2002 the Rangers were soooo good lol.