As far as discourse goes, there’s nothing like a good old-fashioned baseball awards debate. Few topics can inspire such impassioned back-and-forth with such low stakes. Awards, after all, are by their very nature silly. They’re superfluous social constructs invented to inflate public interest and flatter egos. Whatever industry you’re in, you're not supposed to do it for the awards—you’re supposed to do it for the pursuit of something greater, be it a team goal, artistic aim or a number of other reasons.
And yet … we still care.
