Reply #38: The thing is....

[jberryhill]

You mention "nominations".

I did not refer to "nominations".

I referred to votes.

There ARE no nominations, because sports editors are presumed to know who they believed to be the athlete of the year without being provided a list.

The overall point of the OP is that Associated Press has committed some sort of outrage by counting up the names sent to them by sports editors, as if AP exerted any sort of influence or control of the names they received.

But don't let facts get in the way of a rhetorical screed.