New Dodger General Manager

The Dodgers hired the Giants' assistant General Manager Ned Colletti to be their new GM. He beat out Dodger executive Kim Ng, who would have become the first female GM if she were hired. (By all accounts I've heard, Ng is supposed to be brilliant. She has been steadily rising through the baseball executive ranks for the past several years and will likely prove to have quite a pioneering career when all is said and done. It's actually pretty pioneering already, but the GM job has a much higher profile than other baseball executive jobs, so that is a key step.) Now, I don't know whether Colletti or Ng are moneyball GMs and I personally would have preferred that we keep DePodesta, who I think was great and who was fired after just under 2 years of his 5-year contract. That decision was asinine. (Of course, passing up on Theo Epstein given DePodesta's firing was also stupid.) Now we'll see who our new manager is...

In terms of baseball's awards, the writers really blew it on the Cy Youngs in both leagues. They got the AL MVP correct and chose one of the reasonable options (though not the one I would have picked) for the NL MVP. Andruw Jones nevertheless got far more votes than he should have gotten, but the writers still have difficulty with the concept of objective performance when they try to figure out who actually did the best.