American Pharoah for SI Sportsman of the Year

[OldDog]

You can vote!

http://www.si.com/sportsmanofyear/20...ear-contenders

[GenuineRisk]

Thanks, OldDog!

He's currently running in 2nd, behind the Kansas City Royals.

Breakdown by state:

Pharoah: 37 states
Jordan Speith: 1 state (Alaska. Why do they even get a vote? They're practically Russkies)
Thomas Davis: 1 state (Kentucky, I am ASHAMED of you. Pharoah is your native son! It's not his fault his family moved him to California!)
Kansas City Royals: 11 states (the Heartland, plus Hawaii and Rhode Island. Seriously, Hawaii and Rhode Island? Seriously?)

Are we going to let a baseball minority tyrannize us? I say no! Vote!

[OldDog]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Thanks, OldDog!

He's currently running in 2nd, behind the Kansas City Royals.

Breakdown by state:

Pharoah: 37 states
Jordan Speith: 1 state (Alaska. Why do they even get a vote? They're practically Russkies)
Thomas Davis: 1 state (Kentucky, I am ASHAMED of you. Pharoah is your native son! It's not his fault his family moved him to California!)
Kansas City Royals: 11 states (the Heartland, plus Hawaii and Rhode Island. Seriously, Hawaii and Rhode Island? Seriously?)

Are we going to let a baseball minority tyrannize us? I say no! Vote!

I can't see it going to anyone else.

[Merlinsky]

He better get it. It's a much harder accomplishment and that team will have a shot again next year to win the World Series whereas this is it for Pharoah. Steve Haskin says there are two "winners," the editors' pick and the fan vote. The one who gets the cover is picked by the editors. Ideally that's what we want, but I'm hoping AP wins both.

I was gonna tell the obvious PETA "horse racing is abuse" commenters there about how PETA kills thousands of animals every year but I'm not about to authorize that level of app authorization to SI. Why do they need access to being able to change my profile? If one of you has an account, please tear those losers a new @&$hole.

[GenuineRisk]

Pharoah is now almost 13,000 votes behind the Kansas City Royals. Boo. I call shenanigans!

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Pharoah is now almost 13,000 votes behind the Kansas City Royals. Boo. I call shenanigans!

Apparently when you break it down, it's the midwest fans mainly. Nationally Pharoah's got the most widespread support. I can believe Royals fans and people in the area that are just trying to support baseball or the local boys or whatever would pitch in so I don't know that it's shenanigans, it's just straight up not accurately about an individual accomplishment.

His claim is the strongest and most significant even in terms of time since the last occurrence. The Royals haven't won a World series in about 30 years I think, but we have them beat at 37 years. There's a whole team of them, Pharoah did it himself and had to be good enough in a tighter timeframe. He couldn't lose any of 3 races, they could lose several times over a season (winning less than 60% of their games which I know is fine in baseball, but that's not the point) and technically even five times in the playoffs and make it. The point is American Pharoah had no room for error. None. 100% wins or nothing to win the Triple Crown. He got it, then spent the rest of the year being an ambassador for sport. The Royals haven't even been in a position to do the same as WS champs for as long, nor do they risk anything now. Their season is over. Pharoah's kept going and he risked both injury and failure to solidify his reputation historically in open company. There's just no contest. The editors have to pick him if the public does not.

[GenuineRisk]

So Pharoah now has FORTY-SIX of 50 states. The only ones he doesn't have are Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and and Nebraska. Hell, he's even got Canada!

Kansas and Missouri, combined, are over 62,000 votes. Out of almost 228,000 cast. Two states are more than a quarter of the total votes. And, of course, they're both going at about 85 percent each for the Royals.

I imagine some sort of extrapolation could be made for this is why the electoral college is still relevant.

[Benny]

http://www.si.com/sportsmanofyear/20...an-sportshorse

[OldDog]

Originally Posted by Benny

http://www.si.com/sportsmanofyear/20...an-sportshorse

Nice!

[Merlinsky]

Apparently Pharoah's down 2000. He was up by a few hundred earlier in the day. Nearly 100K voting at this point for both Royals and AP. We gotta do this. Two states being super into a team vs. the rest of the country and Canada should still matter to the editors for their pick, but I'd like to win the fan vote.

[hondo]

American Pharoah up by over 10,000 this morning.....I think all the KC royals fans have voted

[JJP]

I'm surprised Steph Curry isn't leading. Considering his 2014-2015 season, and the start he's gotten off to this year, it should be AP and him. No team, no golfer or UFC fighter.

[Merlinsky]

Just saw this...

@BH_EMitchell: #AmericanPharoah has surpassed KC Royals in Sportsman of the Year #SIPoll, 40% to 35%. AP closing in on 160k votes. #KeepVoting

Still got a little while right? It's over some time after the beginning of December think. Can't let up now.

Originally Posted by JJP

I'm surprised Steph Curry isn't leading. Considering his 2014-2015 season, and the start he's gotten off to this year, it should be AP and him. No team, no golfer or UFC fighter.

I think it's not a shock that it's a baseball team and AP. A single athlete having a great season isn't generally gonna be enough to rally 100-150K people in some passionate voting battle. Team sports can when you make it about the fan love for the whole team hence the Royals getting in there. They also achieved their big thing relatively recently. A whole year's worth of individual accomplishment as part of a team is gonna be tougher to draw attention to for this.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by hondo

American Pharoah up by over 10,000 this morning.....I think all the KC royals fans have voted

[richard burch]

As great a year that A. Pharoah had he can only win 2 Eclipse awards, similar to Cal Chrome last year. Might even feel silly to nominate other 3 year old's against him.

with that known, who would you like to see nominated with him as 3 y.o. and H.O.Y ?

[RHT2004]

Originally Posted by JJP

I'm surprised Steph Curry isn't leading. Considering his 2014-2015 season, and the start he's gotten off to this year, it should be AP and him. No team, no golfer or UFC fighter.

Its still Lebrons league.

[blackthroatedwind]

I voted for Effinex.

[Alabama Stakes]

Curry is the best player since Jordan . Lebrun is a stooge

[RHT2004]

Originally Posted by Alabama Stakes

Curry is the best player since Jordan . Lebrun is a stooge

Curry is the best shooter since Reggie. You could argue he's not even the best point in the league right now. The guy is great, but he literally plays on an all star team where no one who is relevant ever gets hurt. Anyone who watched the Finals last year and thinks the Cavs don't roll w/ just a healthy Irving is crazy. Im not even talking about Love or big Anderson.

[RHT2004]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I voted for Effinex.

Good call. Nice to see those connections win the Clark.