WRITERS FEEL A.L. CY YOUNG VOTE WAS WASTE OF TIME



Justin Verlander admits that even
he was shocked that it took
so long to get his award.

Every member of the Baseball Writer's Association of America (BBWAA) feels as though they could have skipped the A.L. Cy Young vote this year and just given it straight to Justin Verlander at season's end.  Most in the audience actually thought it was a practical joke, and therefore didn't particularly care for the fact that the group went ahead with the vote, which apparently took somewhere between 7-8 minutes.

"It was absurd."  MLB.com staff assistant, Marty Dumpfkin explains, "Anybody who watched this year knows this was a waste of time.  And we right about baseball, we know what a 'waste of time' is."

Many, if not all, felt that the time could have been added on to a time-pressed restroom break that had just ended seconds before.  In fact, already expecting the extra time before the manager of the year vote, some were late   returning while grabbing an extra cup of coffee from an adjacent conference room.

One voter remembers having to drink his final cup of coffee "without any sweetener at all", and thought for sure that the call back to the room for a vote was "no reason to drink it black".  He was so baffled by the abrupt decision that other writers recall having to hear him complain about his "unfulfilling" cup of coffee for the remainder of the session.  Which took somewhere between 7-8 minutes.