Heh, I read it as "manning" and for whatever reason my brain decided that made perfect sense.

you're not the only one, that is exactly what I did, and it took me a couple of seconds to realize what Rich was saying before I finally went back and read it real slow.

Huh. I don't know how I did that. I'd say that my finger went to the m/n* area and got lost, but then I did it again...I think my subconscious is trying to tell me I need a haircut.

*Not a euphemism.

would the Dave Kingman award be given to the three true outcome champion?

That would be the Adam Dunn Award. See here.

I was just throwing a name out there, not sure why I went Kingman over Deer (I'm very much a fan that you can't name something after someone while they are active, so no Dunn award)

Frederick Stanley

that's Lord Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby to you bub!

I mean, if Barack Obama turns out to be the best president ever or something, will anyone clamor for President's Day to be moved to Obama's birthday?

I can't decide if this was intentionally ironic or not. For you young'uns, we used to have Washington's birthday and Lincoln's birthday as holidays. The movement to (rightly) honor Martin Luther King, Jr finally succeeded to create that holiday. But god forbid there should be an additional federal holiday, so Washington and Lincoln's birthdays became the single President's Day.

So President's Day exists by essentially the same logic as the hypothesized Obama Day and Paige Award -- i.e. another great person came along who deserved such an honor and we chose to downplay some previous honoree.

But god forbid there should be an additional federal holiday

If it will make you happy, I suppose I'd be willing to take off work the 4th of August every year to celebrate Obama. Even if he turns out to be the worst president in history.

shoplifting

Outstanding. But, seriously, it's a pretty famous US versus Europe golf tournament.

US vs. Europe? How does that work? They both pick a champion, and the best man wins?

There's captains who select their teams, and they play in a series of matches (2 on 2 bestball, 1 on 1 match play, IIRC) for points across... three or four days. It's a great tournament, and I'm not much of a golf fan.

It is time we retire the "Jackie Robinson" Rookie of the Year Award and rename it the "Pat Listach" Rookie of the Year Awrd.

Satchel Paige is probably my favorite pitcher of all-time, but this is silly. Few modern fans know who Cy Young is, and he's had the award named after him for forever. Why should we subject Satch to that kind of anonymity?

Bad idea. You can't honor Paige by stealing the name from Cy Young. It might be different if the award was named for some baseball bureaucrat who dreamed up the idea of a pitcher's award, but that's not the case.

Perhaps Edes will settle for honoring Paige by changing his own name to Satchel.

Bad idea. You can't honor Paige by stealing the name from Cy Young. It might be different if the award was named for some baseball bureaucrat who dreamed up the idea of a pitcher's award, but that's not the case.

It might also make more sense if Cy Young wasn't such a great name to begin with.

Maybe they can give the Barry Bond award each year to the player with the biggest increase in his head size.

It is time we retire the "Jackie Robinson" Rookie of the Year Award and rename it the "Pat Listach" Rookie of the Year Awrd.

In honor of the Marlins' third base coach?

It is time we retire the "Jackie Robinson" Rookie of the Year Award and rename it the "Pat Listach" Rookie of the Year Awrd.

What about the Jim Morris ROY Award? Morris even had a bio-pic, called The Rookie, made in his honor.

I think it's either a golf award or a tennis one (one of those country club sports), but if you asked me how you earn it, I wouldn't have a clue

It has to do with parking rented trucks.

Edes: See? I'm not racist! Look at me! Not racist! Hey everybody!