American Pharoah for SI Sportsman of the Year

[GenuineRisk]

So Pharoah now has FORTY-SIX of 50 states. The only ones he doesn't have are Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and and Nebraska. Hell, he's even got Canada!

Kansas and Missouri, combined, are over 62,000 votes. Out of almost 228,000 cast. Two states are more than a quarter of the total votes. And, of course, they're both going at about 85 percent each for the Royals.

I imagine some sort of extrapolation could be made for this is why the electoral college is still relevant.

[Benny]

http://www.si.com/sportsmanofyear/20...an-sportshorse

[OldDog]

Originally Posted by Benny

http://www.si.com/sportsmanofyear/20...an-sportshorse

Nice!

[Merlinsky]

Apparently Pharoah's down 2000. He was up by a few hundred earlier in the day. Nearly 100K voting at this point for both Royals and AP. We gotta do this. Two states being super into a team vs. the rest of the country and Canada should still matter to the editors for their pick, but I'd like to win the fan vote.

[hondo]

American Pharoah up by over 10,000 this morning.....I think all the KC royals fans have voted

[JJP]

I'm surprised Steph Curry isn't leading. Considering his 2014-2015 season, and the start he's gotten off to this year, it should be AP and him. No team, no golfer or UFC fighter.

[Merlinsky]

Just saw this...

@BH_EMitchell: #AmericanPharoah has surpassed KC Royals in Sportsman of the Year #SIPoll, 40% to 35%. AP closing in on 160k votes. #KeepVoting

Still got a little while right? It's over some time after the beginning of December think. Can't let up now.

Originally Posted by JJP

I'm surprised Steph Curry isn't leading. Considering his 2014-2015 season, and the start he's gotten off to this year, it should be AP and him. No team, no golfer or UFC fighter.

I think it's not a shock that it's a baseball team and AP. A single athlete having a great season isn't generally gonna be enough to rally 100-150K people in some passionate voting battle. Team sports can when you make it about the fan love for the whole team hence the Royals getting in there. They also achieved their big thing relatively recently. A whole year's worth of individual accomplishment as part of a team is gonna be tougher to draw attention to for this.

[RHT2004]

Originally Posted by JJP

I'm surprised Steph Curry isn't leading. Considering his 2014-2015 season, and the start he's gotten off to this year, it should be AP and him. No team, no golfer or UFC fighter.

Its still Lebrons league.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by hondo

American Pharoah up by over 10,000 this morning.....I think all the KC royals fans have voted