Red Sox are Sportsmen of the Year

Thanks to Eric at Off Wing I found out the Red Sox won Sports Illustrated’s Sportsmen of the Year award.  Oh, and their fans too, I guess.

I’m never a fan of the “team” win in awards like these.  I’d rather see David Ortiz win than the Red Sox.  This is similar to the Time Person of the Year last year, when it was “The American Soldier”.  I respect the soldiers, but I’m looking for an individual to win these types of awards.  The team win or the generalization just seems like a committee couldn’t make up their minds and took an easy out to try and appeal to the biggest amount of people possible.

It doesn’t make the Sox a bad pick - if you’re going to pick any team from this past year, I’d put them on the top of the list.

I can only assume now that if the White Sox or Cubs win the World Series they will win the award (along with their fans).

The Sox are the third team to win.  The 1980 US Olympic hockey team wsa the first, and the other was the 1999 US women’s soccer team.  Not that any of these were as big a cop-out as the “Athletes Who Care” of 1987.

Posted by David M Singer on Nov 28, 2004 at 09:11 PM

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