Wasted Opportunity

By now the dust has begun to settle from the NBA MVP voting and as most of you already know Lebron James won by a landslide. Most of you also know that he missed the first ever unanimous selection in NBA history by 7 votes. Most you have probably heard that the 3 1st place votes for Dwight Howard came from 2 paid employees of the Orlando Magic staff and one Orlando based sportswriter. While you can count me in the group that is upset that 7 voters ruined what should have been the easiest vote in sports MVP history, my reasons are very different than most.

All my life I have loved sports. For as long as I can remember there is nothing I like more than watching sports whether it is in person, on TV, or even getting updates on my phone and computer. I imagine there are millions of other people out there who are as passionate and dedicated as I am. Ask almost any guy what his dream job would be and i can promise a good number of them would say sports writer, sports broadcaster or something along those lines. Hell the reason I started this blog was that I wanted the chance to write about sports even if I was the only one reading it.

That is why I am so upset about the way these 7 voters threw away their respective MVP votes. These 7 guys are living every sports loving Americans dream and they took it for granted to try and prove there point. (I have not heard where the 4 Durant votes came from so I cannot focus on them) These voters are paid to watch the NBA and serve as our window into the league through their observations and opinions; something that most of us would do anything to do even for a day. They owe it to us to give us there full effort and use their MVP votes (which are a privilege not a right).

Now I know I am way up on my high horse with this entry but it upsets me that voters used these 7 votes to try and stand out. The Orlando Magic writers and broadcasters can write and talk with bias for 364 days a year and I will still respect their work but the MVP vote is supposed to be without bias. Every other voter put their bias aside to cast their votes so it should be expected that these 7 would as well.

When the names come out of who voted against Lebron each voter will put out an article that voices why they believe their vote was correct but I can promise if you hooked them up to lie detector every single one of them would fail because this MVP vote was so obvious. There is no possible way that any person who watched even 25% of NBA games this year could honestly believe that Lebron was not the MVP.

So please MVP voters of any sport, please start voting with your head and not your heart, because it is a slap in the face to all of us sports fans out there who would love nothing more to have the awesome job that you currently have. If you cannot do that then please give up your vote because lord knows I will be chomping at the bait to get a chance to be in your shoes.