Who are the a**holes who didn't give Kershaw a first place vote

Left-hander Clayton Kershaw won the NL Cy Young Award on Thursday, becoming the first Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher to be so honored since Eric Gagne in 2003 and the first Dodgers starter to win it since Orel Hershiser in 1988.

Kershaw won the award handily in balloting by a select panel of 32 members of the Baseball Writers Association of America. He received 27 of 32 first-place votes, three seconds and two thirds for a total of 207 points, 74 more than runner-up Roy Halladay of the Philadelphia Phillies.

Halladay received four first-place votes, with the last one going to the Phillies' Cliff Lee.

Kershaw, 23, tied for the National League lead in wins with 21 while losing just four times. He also led the league in both ERA (2.28) and strikeouts (248), giving him pitching's version of the Triple Crown.

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/story/_/id/7246696/los-angeles-dodgers-clayton-kershaw-wins-nl-cy-young

Congrats to him...should have been unanimous...absolutely no argument for any of the others winning.

I was surprised Verlander was unanimous.

Lincecum, Cain, Bumgarner, and Vogelsong. The only team to do so...even the Phillies only placed 3 starters in the voting...

What is this, American Idol?

Popularity contests suck.

He didn't get any first, second or third place votes. He got 1 4th place vote.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=mlb&id=7246691

Total points on a 7-4-3-2-1 basis

Player 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Total

Clayton Kershaw, L.A. Dodgers 27 3 2 -- -- 207

Roy Halladay, Philadelphia 4 21 7 -- -- 133

Cliff Lee, Philadelphia -- 5 17 9 1 90

Ian Kennedy, Arizona 1 3 6 18 3 76

Cole Hamels, Philadelphia -- -- -- 2 13 17

Tim Lincecum, San Francisco -- -- -- 1 5 7

Yovani Gallardo, Milwaukee -- -- -- 1 3 5

Matt Cain, San Francisco -- -- -- 1 1 3

John Axford, Milwaukee -- -- -- -- 2 2

Craig Kimbrel, Atlanta -- -- -- -- 2 2

Madison Bumgarner, San Francisco -- -- -- -- 1 1

Ryan Vogelsong, San Francisco -- -- -- -- 1 1