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Re-Post: Vote for one of our own

I posted this a few days back.  There are now 5 days left in open voting, and David Mauro's got the weight of Dailykos.com behind him, so I figured the time was ripe for a re-post.

Many of the people on this site are familiar with David Cameron, one of the guys behind the USSMariner blog.  During the 2007 season, dave wrote an open letter to then-Mariners pitching coach Rafael Chaves about Felix Hernandez's ridiculously predictable pitch selection early in games.  This led to a concerted effort by Chaves and Hernandez to mix pitches, and both men gave interviews to the local media saying that they realized that if an average fan who writes on the internet can figure out what Felix was about to throw, the hitter probably could, too.  It was a pretty damn cool instance of a blogger actually effecting the way baseball was played. 

You can find the letter here:

Open Letter to Rafael Chaves

This letter got Dave nominated for a $10,000 college blogging scholarship based on an internet vote. 

If John doesn't want promotion-type fanposts on the site, I understand and will take it down, but several SBNation sites have already put up posts mobilizing support for Cameron, and I wanted minorleagueball to get in on the action.

So, follow This link and vote for Dave!

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Sounds good to me.

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
-Jonathan Swift

by King Billy Royal on Nov 15, 2008 3:49 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

He's

winning by 2300 votes not sure why you needed to re post.

1941 .406

by FrozenTed9 on Nov 15, 2008 5:07 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Because...

Yesterday he was winning by 3300.

by slamcactus on Nov 15, 2008 6:21 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

And now...

He’s losing, because every Daily Kos reader is showing up to vote for their guy.

by DrunkIrish on Nov 16, 2008 11:59 AM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Yeah,

Daily Kos is huge. Vote, people!

by slamcactus on Nov 16, 2008 2:42 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

After reading

some of the comments below poll and then doing some research – I voted for the Daily Kos guy.

by slurve on Nov 16, 2008 4:11 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Fair enough.

I’m a member of both communities, and Burnt Orange Report’s a quality blog, but USSM has been crucial to my enjoyment of baseball over the past couple years and I’d love to see Dave Cameron compensated for his excellent work.

by slamcactus on Nov 16, 2008 4:21 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

This is why voting for blogger

awards aren’t a good idea it just ends up being a traffic contest. I don’t know who the better writer is it could be one of the other guys too but the winner is just the guy that has the most people coming to there site or the most sites linked on their blog roll.

1941 .406

by FrozenTed9 on Nov 16, 2008 10:32 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

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