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11-11-2015, 12:57 PM
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American Pharoah for SI Sportsman of the Year
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11-11-2015, 01:28 PM
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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!
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11-11-2015, 03:49 PM
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 I can't see it going to anyone else.
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11-12-2015, 05:46 PM
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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.
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11-12-2015, 09:37 PM
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Pharoah is now almost 13,000 votes behind the Kansas City Royals. Boo. I call shenanigans!
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11-13-2015, 10:03 PM
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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.
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11-28-2015, 12:46 AM
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And The Winner Is?
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 ?
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11-29-2015, 02:31 PM
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I voted for Effinex.
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Just more nebulous nonsense from BBB
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11-30-2015, 09:08 AM
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12-15-2015, 02:01 PM
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http://cs.bloodhorse.com/blogs/horse...t-nothing.aspx
well done. and i also read that SI opened up voting, but also said they would choose the winner themselves. they never said the award would go to who got the most fan votes.
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12-15-2015, 04:02 PM
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12-15-2015, 05:41 PM
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As noted throughout the odyssey, work of @SITimLayden mirrored near-perfect American Pharoah's. And now, Tim's coda.
http://www.si.com/sportsperson/2015/...?xid=si_social
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12-01-2015, 11:39 AM
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American Pharoah / Vote Now
Not sure if anyone has posted this yet but the voting is on
for Sports Illustrated > Sportsman or Horse of the year Here is the info AT THIS POINT IN VOTING.... THE TOP 2 CONTENDERS ARE: PHAROAH AND KANSAS CITY ROYALS. http://www.si.com/sportsmanofyear/20...ear-contenders
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12-14-2015, 04:23 AM
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American Pharoah easily dominates his human competition and wins the readers' choice for Sportsman of the Year. The breakdown of voting by region, age and gender is interesting:
http://www.si.com/sportsmanofyear/20...sportsman-year
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12-14-2015, 07:57 AM
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Okay, I see what's wrong. The gender and age breakdowns only included about 43,000 votes for all the nominees. But there were about 589,000 votes. So those gender and age graphs only show about 7% of the votes! Somebody got carried away making pretty graphs but forgot about having it make sense or be representative of the data.
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12-14-2015, 09:19 AM
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Serena Williams ends up winning the actual title of sportsman of the year.
Take out the American Pharoah aspect and this selection still rubs me all the wrong way. Yes, Williams had another career year and did just what everyone expected her to do - except win the US Open in which she lost to an unknown Italian player in the semi-finals. Not even the finals. She was supposed to dominate and didn't and acted all put out like she usually does. She's a horrible sportsman and always has been. Women's tennis is notoriously weak at the top save Williams. She dominates an easily dominatable division. Sticking with tennis, a glance at the year Novak Djokovic had and anyone with a basic understanding of sports and competition can see that what he put together in 2015 was stunning. It's been called the "best year of tennis ever" in men's tennis. He was a set away from a Grand Slam (losing to Stan Wawrinka in the Aus Open final). He's currently miles ahead of the 2nd ranked player. I can't speak to the other nominees as I don't follow basketball or women's boxing or soccer or whatever else was nominated, but I can tell you the pick of William's in just the realm of tennis is an absolute sham because there were other competitors with stronger resumes for this year's award.
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12-14-2015, 11:34 AM
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Either way, I'll forward it on to my brother, who has a PhD in statistics and ask him what he thinks of the accuracy of the presented data. He lives for this kind of thing. 
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12-14-2015, 12:18 PM
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Look at it again--don't you agree that the male/female graph seems to show that KC had more votes than AP?
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