Keen grasp of the obvious

OK, I'll try to make this my last baseball-related post today. It is November, and some of us are getting twitchy in withdrawal.

Anyway, Evan Grant, a sportswriter at Belo's Dallas Morning News, left Dustin Pedroia entirely off his MVP ballot.

I'm sorry it's taken me so long to actually post this, but I've been trying to answer e-mails and respond to phone calls about why I left Dustin Pedroia off the AL ballot. Let me first say this to the Red Sox nation: In retrospect, it was a mistake.