Mattingly: MVP do-over ‘makes sense’ if Braun appeal fails

Why a do-over unless you want to do-over the entire Bud Selig era*

Wake up America!!!!! Spending $100s on cheats and whiners as you vote down school bonds, let little league fields become unkept - all as these BILLIONAIRES with anti-trust exemption put on a fraud and get even richer.

Hey, build them another stadium and watch the For Sale signs go up on foreclosed properties in your neighborhood. But tell your kids you got to see A-Rod, Braun, Clemens, McGwire ....

Wow, thanks for the insight.

If they did that, would they strip the other druggies that won MVP's & CYA's? It may be a real mess.

no proof of them doing it right then though.... he cheated and was caught during his mvp year. Cushing should have gotten his defensive rookie of the year award away too

We as parents teach our kids to be honest and lead an adult life as moral beings.
Why are people accepting a liar and cheat named braun, over a class act in Kemp?

It would be nice if either you ar Mattingly even suspected what the fact were in this case beofre running a tthe mouth. The public facts are that the substnace in quesiton, while on MLB's prohibited list, is NOT a performance enhancing drug. Rather it was perscribed by a physician for a medical condiiton and was not cleared in advance with the Brewer medical staff. While Braun may be suspended, there is no longer ANY question that the drug in question was not performance enhancing and was not taken for that purpose. If you haven't seen that information yet then why open your pie hole on this subject.

Braun is a class act and you need to have enough discerment to understand that this is NOT Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire or anything near that.

since baseball is the uniquely american-created sport..& reflects that unique sense of fairness that sets it apart from all others sports, there should be a provision for just such a situation. if it is unfair to use illegal drugs for gainful advantage, then it follows there should be not only punishment, but penalty in the form of denying awards to those same players who would violate the rules to gain those awards.
to accuse Don Mattingly of having his own agenda is unfair.as the manager of the player who ended up losing more than any other, he is only doing his duty by speaking up for his player. if not the manager of the player who ended up getting jobbed, then who? Pud Selig, Mr. Hear-no-evil-see-no-evil-speak-no-evil? & the owners want to re-up this jackass who is a big brown stain on the back of the pants of american baseball? please.
instigate rules: ANYONE who violates the drug policies should not be eligible for ANY awards, or induction into the HOF. AND take back the money they immorally earned made while cheating.see how fast that crapola disappears!
run it like the SEC does for businesses who violate ethics procedures. fine 'em, jail 'em, impound the illegal profits.corruption has even pervaded MLB.everyone it's just another corporate monotlith complete with the same warts.. crooks cheaters & thieves everywhere. anyone who thinks MLB should have their own special set of rules.. enough!

Nothing will happen to braun because he is a brewer. Whose daughter owns the Brewers?

Writer says..."There's no precedent for going back and re-voting for awards, and to go looking for one invites chaos."

There is none because the need was never this great! Did people who roided up win MVP's before? YES! But that was the steroid-era where testing was not done and management turned a blind eye to it. Different era now, they should do the right thing, since that is what MLB wants its players to do!

You take away braun's mvp, then you have to go back and take 4 away from bonds, 2 from arod, one from jose canseco, sosa, etc. The point is there cant be a double standard when it comes to a player using PEDs now compared to during the so called "steroid era". His punishment is that he cant play 50 games next season and won't get paid for it and guess what, not playing 50 games will eliminate his chances of winning again next year. Sounds like a pretty good punishment to me. The MLB has done a great job of eliminating PEDs and these suspensions are exactly why. Besides its not like Braun has always been a cheater, he's passed numerous PED tests before the test he failed prior to the playoffs, AFTER the season ended.

Sounds like a Brewer fan talking to me. Yeah, Mattingly is the Dodgers manager but he's also right! I'm a Cardinal fan by the way. The Brewers also don't win the division without Fielder and they don't win it without that pitching staff (we've had better players fail to win the MVP before because there were too many other players on their team that made huge contributions). What bugs me about the unwritten rules is that they aren't applied consistently - writers use one of them one year to deny a player the award and the next year they use another to deny someone else. Braun had an awesome year. Kemp had a better year. Penalize Kemp because he had less talent in the lineup around him that resulted in his team not making the playoffs (we've had players from last place teams win the award before). Is the MVP an individual award or not? Braun had an awesome year but Braun cheated! I say it's high time we set a precedent and tell players we won't reward them in any way for cheating the game. Did Braun benefit financially for cheating to win the MVP. A lot of players have that incentive in their contracts. Take away that incentive to cheat!

I think Kemp should of won it anyway. He was punished because he played for a CRAPPY DODGER team. Revote..Kemp by a landslide. No presidence that's true, but that may be changed shortly.

he was tested before he won the award and I am sure the results were known and possibly held back untill the voting was complete. He should have not received the award. All other award winnere who won were found out much later.

It's already widely acknowledged before Braun got busted that Matt Kemp should have won the MVP and only got it based on his team's success.

Even Braun said it himself, without implying he didn't deserve it over Kemp.

Now that he got busted it's even more clear. We all know Braun is guilty, what he should have done is just admit it and let everyone move on. Getting busted using PED isn't the death kneel it used to be. People just shake their heads and move on once you put up big numbers again.

Kemp will have a monster season and Braun will be plauged with constant questions about this and have a very poor one. Justice.

BRAUN IS A CHEAT, PLAIN AND SIMPLE!
THERE WOULD BE NOTHING WRONG IN GIVING IT TO THE TRUE MVP, MATT KEMP!!!!!

Where is the rest of this article? If you make a statement such as "but there's no way it should happen," you should present a counter-argument as to why.

Personally I agree with Mattingly, if Braun's appeal is denied he should lose the MVP award. He broke the law, so he gets a 50 game suspension, so what. He got lots of money for getting the MVP, right? If he used performance enhancing drugs don't you think that contributed to his MVP season? And, Yes, maybe we should go back and pull the awards from previous winners, just like the Heisman committee did.

He is not the MVP, Kemp is. Most sane people know that, keep making excuses for that jerk Braun

Don't let the facts get in the way of a good rant guys. It is likely that Braun will serve the suspension. But he was not taking a PED. Talk about taking away his MVP is ridiculous and based on nothing other than you wanted Kemp to win it in the first place. If you can't distinguish between a PED and a drug used to treat a medical condition for a very short period of time, then you are hopeless. If he is supended so be it but this talk about him being a cheater, a roider etc is sheer nonsense---it does not jive with the facts. But don't let that get in the way of your conclusion.

There is no precedence for it, but the specter of PEDs in baseball has to be shattered and a zero tolerance policy has to be the standard. And Mattingly's right. A Rod won MVPs with Texas while they were the cellar dwellars of the AL West, why shouldn't Kemp get what he deserves? The MLB and the HOF are going to have to look to reward players for doing things the right way, not just gaudy numbers.