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Awards: Little Guy MVP, Heisman Up for Grabs
The Boston Globe is calling Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia the most unlikely man to win the MVP award in the history of baseball.Bloggers are just happy about it. Pedroia is the poster child for every kid that is told he's too small to play, says The Scores Report.The scrappy Pedroia is listed at 5-foot-9, but those who have seen him up close would call that "generous," says Big League Stew. Outspoken Sox teammate Curt Schilling on his 38 Pitches blog has a post elegantly titled "Congrats you little #@!$!" that calls Pedroia a "red ass 'kick your teeth in no matter how big you are, or how hard you throw' guy" (Albert Pujols of the Cardinals won the NL MVP earlier in the week.) Now come the historical comparisons. Peter's Red Sox Forever notes that Pedroia joins past Fenway MVPs Tris Seaker, Jimmie Foxx, Ted Williams (twice), Jackie Jensen, Carl Yastrzemski, Fred Lynn, Jim Rice, Roger Clemens and Mo Vaughn. Pedroia is the eighth player in AL history to win the MVP, Gold Glove and Silver Slugger in the same year, points out The Coffin Corner.
Continue Reading Story »Mommy Bloggers Take On Motrin (and Win)
Blogging moms weren't amused by the above ad, posted on Motrin's Web site on Saturday. AdAge, which has the original read-aloud video form of the ad and explains it was "was an attempt to connect with moms through the common experience (and pain) of carrying a child. But the implication felt by some of the campaign's more vocal critics was that moms wear their babies as fashion accessories, or because it 'totally makes me look like an official mom.'" The backlash came quickly: After Jessica Gottlieb got a tweet about the advertisement, she was "furious and I asked the other mommies on Twitter to talk about why they'd never again use Motrin." It was the most Tweeted subject on Twitter by Saturday evening. Skimbaco Lifestyle compiled all the tweets into a YouTube video. Motherlode writes, "By Sunday afternoon a few bloggers and tweeters had gotten the ad agency that created the ad on the phone, to find they didn't know a lot about Twitter and didn't seem to have a clue that there was so much anger piling up online."
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