Louisville Slugger released its Silver Slugger Awards today and no Reds, which is no shock

American League
1B – Justin Morneau, Minnesota Twins
2B – Dustin Pedroia, Boston Red Sox
3B – Alex Rodriguez, New York Yankees
SS – Derek Jeter, New York Yankees
OF – Josh Hamilton, Texas Rangers
OF – Carlos Quentin, Chicago White Sox
OF – Grady Sizemore, Cleveland Indians
C – Joe Mauer, Minnesota Twins
DH -- Aubrey Huff, Baltimore Orioles
National League
1B – Albert Pujols, St. Louis Cardinals
2B – Chase Utley, Philadelphia Phillies
3B – David Wright, New York Mets
SS – Hanley Ramirez, Florida Marlins
OF – Matt Holliday, Colorado Rockies
OF – Ryan Ludwick, St. Louis Cardinals
OF – Ryan Braun, Milwaukee Brewers
C – Brian McCann, Atlanta Braves
P – Carlos Zambrano, Chicago Cubs

The Giants' Tim Lincecum won the Cy Young with 23 of 32 first-place votes, including mine.

As promised, here's my ballot

1. Tim Lincecum

2. Brandon Webb

3. Johan Santana

Lincecum, to me, was a very easy vote. I don't think it should have been as close as it was. I agonized over the third-place vote with Santana and Sabathia. In the end, Santana's numbers were too good to pass up. I'm not a big W-L (as a pitcher's stat) guy, but Webb still had a very good season. Honestly, it was Lincecum and everyone else battling it out for second, third and fourth. I think after that, I could have had the other three in any order, but those were where they finished for me.

And, that's how they finished in the offical vote (and as you see, Edinson Volquez didn't get a single vote):

Hey Jack Atherton, if I wanted to watch the 10 p.m. news, I'd seek it out. Please don't break into my HD programming with your commercial.

Just as Carl Crawford hit a home run, the signal went from HD to SD and then shrunk the live World Series action for Atherton to advertise the Fox 19 news on another channel. I think I'm gonna watch the World Series, thanks Jack. Now get off the screen and let me watch the Series in its full HD glory.

I'm somehow on the TBS media list and I get releases from these people about four times a week. And I never care.

Finally, something that someone may care about. If you were tuning in for Game 6 of the ALCS and saw the Steve Harvey Show, well, this is why:

Two circuit breakers in our Atlanta transmission operations tripped causing the master router and its backup – which are necessary to transmit any incoming feed outbound – to shut down. This impacted our live feed from being distributed to any of the other networks in the Turner portfolio and caused the delay in our coverage. Both our primary and backup routers were impacted by this problem. We apologize to baseball fans for this mishap that caused a delay in our coverage.

I'll tell you what, I love Marty Brennaman. Just love the guy. I know, I'm not alone there, but, well, I think a lot more people do now after his rant about the Cubs and their fans on Wednesady.

Lance and I talked about this on Thursday, but, well, it gives me just another chance to link my favorite manager rants.

Notice I'm linking these, not embedding them, because they are seriously NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR CHILDREN OR ANYONE OFFENDED EASILY OR, WELL, NOT SO EASILY. Basically, there's some really, really, really bad language coming up.

Former Cub manager Lee Elia says what every Cub manager has always wanted to say. My favorite part is "85 percent of the **** world is working, the other 15 comes out here."

Tommy LaSorda is the king of, well, some of that. Here's a montage of his best. (Just a reminder, all of these are NSFW)

How about Sparky Anderson? It took a lot of Sparky to get upset, but, well, it happens. (NSFW)

This one is beeped, so, well, I'll embed it, but it's a personal favorite. Last year, for the first time as a reporter, I went up to someone to tell them how much I admired them as a kid. And it was Hal McRae. I told him my dad always told me to watch him to see how the game was played, nobody played baseball harder than Hal McRae. I still think the Royals should retire No. 11.

OK, back to NSFW, this may be my favorite. It's even better than Lee Elia. It's the king -- Earl Weaver on Manager's Corner. Seriously, seriously NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR ANYONE ELSE THAT CAN BE OFFENDED. The part about tomato plants... Classic.