Friday, June 19, 2009

Satchel what award?

Today I was so eloquently reading a page from the Yahoo! sports edition when I came across the interesting article about Satchel Paige. For all of you who are naive to Mr. Paige's accomplishments (myself included), I'll give you a brief run down; he was incredibly talented and threw pitches faster than Randy Johnson at his current age. He made the majors his "bitch" and turned baseball upside down. From what I understand, he was the behind the scenes guy who opened the door for Jackie Robinson to walk through.
The debacle: a sports writer thinks it would be such a grand idea to turn the Cy Young award into the Satchel Paige award because apparently, Mr. Young has spent enough time atop the list for people to be named after something special. The problems with this are tremendous and they can be tipped off by the Vince Lombardi trophy going to the National Football League's super bowl champions. How come this has never been an issue with football? Why don't we have six or so sports writers commenting on how the Lombardi has sat atop the largest podium in American sports for so long? Well, it's because we have yet to get that far in our racial divide. Do not mistake my words, I am against this proposition even if it is just a far fetched idea from a dipshit writer. Why does Cy Young have to step down? Why can't we just name a fitting award for Mr. Paige if he is indeed who MLB says he is? The answers to these questions are a bit simple, yet undefined. It's because there is no reason to rename an award. Imagine Roger Clemens, aside from his steroid controversy, looking at his Cy Young awards and wondering how they stack up to the Satchel Paige award. This is ludacris and there is no reason for it. I am seriously running out of words to prove my point. The reason is because Yahoo! obviously has a stance that protecting the past of this game is pointless and making sure that not just the players, but the awards they receive are racially equal. There are so many unnamed awards in baseball, why not use one of those?

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