Why CC Sabathia should win the NL Cy Young award - Steve Aschburner - SI.com

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 Why CC Sabathia should win the NL Cy Young award - Steve Aschburner  - SI.com
Had someone bothered to create and name Denton True (Cy) Young 's award after him while he still was pitching, he might have won enough of them to make Roger Clemens feel like LaMarr Hoyt , Steve Bedrosian or another of the one-and-pretty-much-doners. After all, Clemens won seven Cy Young awards without ever winning more than 24 games in a season, completing more than 18 or logging as many as ... [link]

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The Wisconsin Sports Wank
Published 8/22/2008 by ruffian96 (princeclifford15@hotmail.com) at The Rogue Hour
... by the Crew 10-5). CC Sabaithia has been on cruise control throwing shutouts and no hittlers left and right and being mentioned in Cy Young discussions. All very satisfying, I'm glad the Brewers have made me start paying attention this year. But Between the Green Pillars ...

Wednesday's Starting Five
Published 8/27/2008 by WWOD? (noreply@blogger.com) at What Would Oakley Do?
... 3. The CC for Cy Campaign. Although Big Pelf may become my darkhorse candidate if he keeps it up, WWOD? is currently touting CC Sabathia for the NL Cy Young. And, perhaps (not) following my lead, is Steve Aschburner over at Sports Illustrated. The heftiest lefty is currently 8-0 in ten starts since arriving in Milwaukee and would be become the first player ever to win back-to-back Cy Young Awards in both leagues. ...

Sigh, Cy Young talk already?
Published 8/28/2008 by joe@viewfromthebleachers.com (Joe Aiello) at View from the Bleachers
During my short hiatus, no thanks to some glitch in the systems, I had to depend on other sites for my baseball fill. My VFTB withdrawal was a hard pill to swallow when you’re stuck reading substandard baseball reporting from the “big” sports news networks. Ugh. I can spew more worthless information about two East coast teams, whom will remain nameless, than I care to know. Double ugh. Yesterday, I came across this gem, “ Why C.C. Sabathia should win the NL Cy Young ,” by Steve Aschburner. It brought up some interesting history of AL guys coming over to the NL and making a case ...

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