This is a bullshit topic (which is why I'm burying this post at 7:00AM) but Sherman has re-invented his article so I'm re-tooling my takedown. Here are two points Sherman makes (among countless other ones I take issue with) that do a fair job of summing up his argument:
He takes issue with the notion that Jeter is winning it because of lifetime achievement but thinks that A-Rod should win it because he "embodies where sports are now". I fear he may be taking the word "Sportsman" a bit too literally.
- This feels like lifetime achievement.
- And Rodriguez should win this award. He embodies where sports are now. He is the intersection of illegal performance enhancers, advancements in sports medicine, celebrity and on-field genius.
The Sportsman of the Year award is a pretty arbitrary award given out for a certain mix of on and off-the-field achievements. There is no concrete mold into which the winner always fits, but I think it makes a whole lot more sense to give it to someone who has always represented a high level of class and character (not to mention success in competition) over someone who has been a notorious preening egomaniac in the year he was forced to admit that he did steroids.
Is that fact that he ceased to be a complete trainwreck remarkable in some ways? Yes. Does that make him deserving of any sort of award? Absolutely not.
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all he did was create views for his page, and now his column, by taking the "shock-value" route. He's an ass.
ReplyDeleteAs far as Post writers go, I think Sherman's the best of the lot. I'm not sure that's a compliment though.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I can't figure why this is such a big deal for him - and he won't let it go. From his 3 Up, 3 Down blog post this morning:
"At this point I would not be surprised if Derek Jeter won the Heisman Trophy too"
Really Joel? Are we going to make that big of a deal over the SI Sportsman of the Year? Much like my response to the outcry over the two through ten spots in the AL MVP: who cares?
Sherman's an idiot. His articles don't have any depth and he's always a "doom and gloom" type of reporter, every move the Yanks make is the wrong one. I steer clear of his articles/blog posts...
ReplyDeleteIts a meaningless award and whatever justification for anyone receiving it is just as meaningless.
ReplyDelete"At this point I would not be surprised if Derek Jeter won the Heisman Trophy too"
ReplyDeleteAt this point I wouldn't be surprised if Joel Sherman started writing for Barstool Sports on the side.