Joe Mauer on Being Crowned MVP

Sorry, mlb.tv won't allow me to embed the video, however(!), you can still see it by clicking the handy little link up there.

An almost unanimous vote (Miggy Cabrera? Uh, ok.) crowns our very own Joe Mauer as the 2009 AL MVP. Congrats, again, to Joe on a well-deserved award. Here's to quite a few more years of him in a Twins uniform!

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Thanks fischean!

by Jesse on Nov 23, 2009 9:41 PM EST reply actions

You're quite welcome.

I realized there are probably a lot of Twins fans that don’t get FSN…and this is too great of an event to miss :)

"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." -Earl Weaver

by fischean on Nov 23, 2009 10:50 PM EST up reply actions

Thanks for posting this fischean

I especially enjoyed seeing Sen. John McCain walking in front of the camera at the beginning of the press conference.

"Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?" -Joe Kapp

by less cowbell, more 'neau on Nov 23, 2009 11:59 PM EST reply actions

And rec'd!

"Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?" -Joe Kapp

by less cowbell, more 'neau on Nov 24, 2009 12:02 AM EST up reply actions

haha John McCain

did the same thing after one of the presidential debates

by what_would_gil_thorp_do on Nov 24, 2009 12:13 AM EST up reply actions

The elderly are easily confused.

by fischean on Nov 24, 2009 12:20 AM EST up reply actions

Of course it's not embeddable...

That would require MLB to have the slightest clue about new media. From a business perspective, they’ve done well with the internet (MLB.tv, etc.); from a PR standpoint, their insistence on controlling all their content, not allowing embedded highlights or posting on YouTube (search is better there, for one thing, and more people are simply aware of it), just makes them look like clueless old people who don’t understand how this generation of fans consumes media. The only major league that at all “gets it” is the NHL, and that may be because they’ve become more of a niche sport and are trying to reach out more.

What do they gain by not having Joe Mauer’s press conference embeddable? Are they really that dependent on ad revenue from their website that they need the hits?

"There are only two things that are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

by BeefMaster on Nov 24, 2009 10:18 AM EST reply actions