Welcome back, Dan!

I hope I'm not crossing the line here into "beating a dead horse" territory, but I just think that you've got to appreciate this. Dan Shanoff is back at the Daily Bandwagon and on his very first day back comes through with another doozy of a failed prediction:

Award Watch (Wed): AL/NL Mgr
Quickie AL pick: Terry Francona
Quickie NL pick: Phil Garner

Actual winners were Showalter and Cox. Okay, so he missed the manager of the year awards; big deal. It's not like there were any consensus favorites there. But remember, it's not just that Shanoff is wrong, it's that he's spectacularly wrong. So let's look at the final tallies:

NL
Cox (140)
La Russa (62)
Tracy (52)
Garner (27)

AL
Showalter (101)
Gardenhire (91)
Scioscia (31)
Torre (18)
Francona (8)

Yeah. His guy finished 4th in one league and 5th in the other. A whooping 8 points for Francona. Good call, Dan!

My dos cents: it's a joke that Torre gets 18 points for managing a team of all-stars to 101 wins. Including 1 first-place vote.