Manocad wrote:But since you don't know any of the baseball writers and therefore are not in contact with any of them, you are not influencing their vote in any way, nor do you know that you even could.
My point still stands--MVP is what the voters decide it should be, not what you think it should be. Therefore whatever they decide should determine who gets the award is what the award means. Simply put, it can't be "wrong."
I dont have to be the specific person that the writers witness the opinions of. Each writer is going to hear countless opinions of countless different people, and there is indisputable proof that many of these voters have explained that they take other peoples' opinions/arguments into consideration before they choose. Whether I happen to be one of the opinions they may be exposed to is a moot point.
Your point is obvious because I agree with your point, nor can anybody disagree with your point since that's how the process is currently set up. The process for determining the MVP is what it is and that goes without saying that those who get to vote are in fact the ones who get to determine the rational for how they come to decide to choose that vote. And of course it can't be wrong, it's an opinion based determination, and opinions by their nature cannot possibly be wrong. That has nothing to do with baseball though, that's the nature of what an opinion is and in this case opinions are what determines the winner. There is no right or wrong answer within that context since it's not a fully objective determination.