Sox Should Make Move on Manny - Dan “Napolean Dynomite” Shaughnessy, Boston Globe

“Rats. I was pretty sure Manny Ramírez was going to win the MVP award. Too bad he was topped by winner Justin Morneau, runner-up Derek Jeter, David Ortiz, and an ensemble cast of American League worthies.

Here in Red Sox Nation, there is some lugubrious pleasure in the knowledge that Jeter finished second to a Minnesota Twin. For some Sox fans, it’s titillating to see that one voter placed Jeter sixth on his/her ballot. That’s reminiscent of a New York writer ignoring Pedro Martínez on the 1999 ballot because said scribe allegedly didn’t believe in voting for a pitcher for MVP. Of course, it turned out that the New York writer had voted for other pitchers in previous years.”