AJ Hinch Snubbed In Manager Of The Year Voting

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00:00What are you potentially being irrational about?

00:02So, uh, you know, baseball season finished a little bit ago and now they're starting to come

00:06out these awards, right? And how does this affect us locally? How's it affecting me?

00:11I went and checked out, of course, like everybody else, AJ Hinch, is he going to win the manager of

00:16the year? And it comes out the American league manager of the year is Steven Voigt, not AJ

00:22Hinch. I'm like, okay, okay. Let's look deeper. Let's check out the voting. AJ Hinch didn't even

00:28finish second. He finished third with one first place vote. Now I'm open to the fact that my,

00:37just being way too biased here, it might be an irrational, but are you kidding me? Did you see

00:43the roster that he put out there? Did you see the starting quote unquote rotation to be determined

00:48almost on a nightly basis? They went into the play. So somehow they made the playoffs with

00:54less than a 2% chance. At one point they won a series and my man is third in the AL manager of

01:01the year voting. Tell me I'm overreacting Gator. I think you're overreacting. All right. Why you're

01:08overreacting? No, go ahead. Because the two guys have finished ahead of them. I think I could see

01:14it. All three managers come from the same division right here in the AL central. So when you look

01:21what Cleveland did, I think it's, it's quite impressive because Cleveland doesn't have a,

01:24they didn't have a great lineup either. And they had to cobble things together and they won

01:29way more games. They ran, they won the division running away, Kansas city and other, other team

01:34that did play well above their heads. I think if you have one player of offensive ability and

01:39somehow they were, they were there. So I get it. I would have loved to have seen AJ Hinch win it,

01:45but I totally get why he didn't. And I think what this says is there's some,

01:50there, there's a lot of overachieving going on in the central division.

01:55I'd like to ask Doug a question, Doug, why does Gator hate AJ Hinch? Are you kidding me?

02:03Dude? I don't know. Bobby wit head and shoulders above anyone that the Tigers have offensively.

02:10Uh, they had Tarek Skoobel and who else guys that have the Cy Young award winner, the

02:17Skoobel, but that's the, that's the triple crown of, of major league baseball pitching.

02:23Hold on. We don't know that yet. Okay. Yeah. He might not win it. He might only get one vote.

02:27Yeah. Or exact. You might finish third with one vote from Cleveland. Again, is that, um,

02:33yeah, but the tiger, I mean, I understand the point with Bobby Witt and Jose Ramirez,

02:38but the Tigers combat that with a couple of guys that are really good. Okay. Hold on there.

02:44You can't compare rosters. Can you, are we really? I don't think you can. I don't think

02:50you can compare rosters. I think, well, here's if you want me to make the case for AJ Hinch,

02:54I can make the case for AJ Hinch. I just think it's a stronger case for the other teams, but

02:58I love what AJ Hinch did when they fettered up that, that pitching rotation when they literally

03:04had three, two and three starting pitchers. That's it. I mean, it's unbelievable. The

03:09argument for Voight is that they won the division at Kansas city and Detroit finished

03:15with the exact same record. They look, you know, my answer to this is I don't care.

03:22One vote does seem a little light. It does seem a little light.

03:26Now, Kenny brought up something to me and I want to get your thoughts on it. Do you think there's

03:30any Houston Astro cheating taint scandal still attached to AJ Hinch where voters are like,

03:37I'm not voting for this guy because of what, you know, what happened in the past?

03:42Yeah, I could see that. I could absolutely see that.

03:47I mean, if the guy's eligible, I don't know.

03:50Well, is this like the steroid era guys?

03:52It has zero to do with what this vote's about.

03:54Yes, I know.

03:55This isn't a lifetime achievement award. This is what kind of a job did you do this year?

04:00It's like people who would take anything that happened in the past

04:03and use it in their Heisman voting. It should be about the snapshot of time that is this season.

04:09And that's a misappropriation of, of selective, you know, uh, uh, altruism to try and apply that

04:17to this, this, this, you know, Hey, we're gonna, we're gonna include previous ethics violations

04:24or perceived or whatever they want to call them. I don't think it has anything or should

04:27have anything to do with it. I'd be awfully disappointed if that's the case for something

04:31I really don't care about. Like Kang, your level of upset on a scale of one to 10 is what?

04:37I feel like it's definitely higher than I thought.

04:41At first, if you would've told me our age, it's not going to be manager. I'm like, okay,

04:44all right. I'm a little upset, but whatever. But then when I, I guess when I saw the voting,

04:48you only got one first place, but I was a little, wow. I guess I'm at like a eight.

04:54Wow. An eight. I went from like, I think five to eight like that fast.

04:58Okay. Maybe Kenny can answer this question on a daily basis. How angry is the angry Italian

05:06on a daily basis? The angry Italian can range anywhere from like five to 10. It just depends.

05:11So his, his, his lowest level of anger on the day where he's least angry is still five least

05:17angry. Nah, he can, he can be pretty chill. I'd give it, it varies. I mean, you know,

05:22the angry Italian, but we're talking to him, but I'm just saying on average, on average,

05:25sure. How uncommon is it for him to be totally chill? It's not uncommon. It's not uncommon at

05:33all. But when he does get it, when he gets spicy, he gets spicy. My man gets spicy.

05:37So do you not, cause you're in the room with him now with, with, with Kang. Yeah. Are you seeing

05:44some angry Italian and Kang? I saw it build. I saw it start very slowly when he saw, when he

05:49looked on Twitter to find the manager of the year, I saw it. It was, it was a five or maybe even a

05:53four. And then the more he talked about it, it's just, the steam started to come out of the ears

05:58a little bit more and more and more it built up. Now he's probably an eight. Well, there it is.

06:03Maybe there's others here in Detroit. Eight is awfully high, awfully high. He's very, very upset.

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