Trevor Bauer Got His "Mickey Mouse" Cy Young Last Week And I Forgot How Boring The Cy Young Trophy Actually Is. RDT Bonus Ranking Of Top 5 Sports Trophies

Last week Trevor Bauer accepted his Cy Young Award, or as some people called it, the "Mickey Mouse Cy Young" because they don't think it really counted. Shut up, it counted. If you count the Dodgers as World Series Champions you could Bauer as a Cy Young Winner. He documented it all above in his vlog from this week, a nice behind the scenes look at his routine and what he does when he's not starting. Like him or not he's doing something right because these are pretty popular. My biggest takeaway outside of Bauer not changing his phone background for the last 10 years was how damn boring the Cy Young Award is. Look at it,  I just can't get over that it's one of the biggest awards in sports and that is what it looks like. I've seen it before, plenty of times, but for some reason it's just kicking in to me that this thing looks like something you'd see on the wall of an Elks' Lodge. It's just bland. It's boring. It needs be be spiced it. It should be a top 5 trophy in sports but it's not even close. It's not just the Cy Young either, a lot of the MLB trophies are boring, shocker I know. Hell, even the commissioner called the World Series Trophy "a piece of metal". The Gold Glove is one of the only good looking trophies in baseball, along with the All Star Game MVP Bat. 

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Just look how blah and bland. Spice it up for me, MLB. Give it a little pizzazz. Pitchers are pumping their chests and screaming after strikeouts, how about we reward them with something a little nicer.

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The MVP Award looks gross too. Baseball is obsessed with putting metal on a black piece of wood. Just nail it right on there and call it a day. Baseball could have some awesome looking trophies and they choose not to. Like we've said a billion times over, baseball needs an image change. Get with the times and ditch the old looking Cub Scout trophies and plaques, how about giving out an award that people want. In the video Bauer didn't even know what to do with it. Is it a paper weight? Do you hang it up? Lean it against your wall? Baseball far and away has the worst trophies in sports.

Anyways, here is a bonus 5 of the best trophies in sports. 

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5. The Rivalry Trophy - Has to be the infamous Rivalry Trophy given to the winner of the Maryland - Johns Hopkins men's lacrosse regular season game. No explanation needed, it's just an awesome looking trophy in the shape of a crab. Would like some Maryland flag pattern on it and put it over the top but the crab itself will do. Awesome looking piece of hardware. Crabcakes, football, trophies, that is what Maryland does.

4. Lombardi Trophy - Has to be, right? It's a beaut. Perfect size to hold up and kiss after you win it, you get to see the smudge marks all over it, just an awesome looking trophy. Has to be the most famous trophy in the world, right?

3. The Heisman Trophy - Pardon My Take had my favorite player of all time on this week, Eddie George. They talked about his Heisman getting bent in the x-ray machine at the airport and how he got a new one. It's such an awesome trophy. We've all been playing pickup football in a backyard and struck the Heisman after a TD of some sort, it's just the best. That thing looks like it weighs 100 pounds too, a nice thicc boy. Hell of a trophy. 

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2. Aggrocrag - I take back what I said about the Lombardi, the Aggrocrag is the most famous trophy in the world. Who could forget Mo and Mike O'Malley giving this out at the end of every show. Always dreamed of running around that track with the USA flag on your back, such an awesome trophy. I'd love to be able to hold it, just once. 

1. Stanley Cup - Iconic. The only real trophy you can drink a ton of booze out of. It's just the best, looks great on the ice as the players skate around with it. It's easily the best trophy to celebrate with because as I mentioned, you can fill it with whatever you want and gargle it all. The aggrocrag narrowed the gap a little but this is by far the best trophy in sports.

There ya have it. The Cy Young stinks and needs a facelift.