There is no Awards Wednesday today because in Sunday’s Post we will do a final, year-end awards wrap-up.

My idea with Awards Wednesday was to follow the awards like a presidential race, with essentially a weekly poll showing the progress of the competition – who was ahead, who was behind, who was hot, who was not. And also to spice it up with a few extra awards each week.

There has been some feedback – both good and bad about the idea – throughout the year, but I would love for the readers to post here to let me know whether they think it is a worthwhile item to keep doing for 2008 (it is never too early to think about next season).

OK, enough of the housekeeping, a few quick thoughts:

–It is beautiful that a selfish veteran such as Jeff Kent blames the Dodgers’ youthful players for not knowing their place as a key ingredient in Los Angeles’ demise this year. Wasn’t it Kent, as a Met rookie, who spurned the traditional hazing by refusing to wear a costume for the final road trip in 1992? Kent was despised in the Met clubhouse as a young player for being ill-tempered and disinterested in being part of the clubhouse community. That would also be the same Kent who lied to his employer, the Giants, in 2002 saying he broke his wrist washing his truck, when it turned out he hurt himself crashing his motorcycle. Jeff Kent, great teammate.

–And how about this beauty from David Wells as quoted in the Los Angeles Times about the problem with the Dodgers’ young players: “Some of the guys that you see around that are young are a little cocky. But you know what? They are going to get humbled. And when they do, they’ll switch their attitude.” Would that be like you, David? Like you switched your attitude? Can you imagine David Wells complaining that young players were “cocky?” I get it now either David Wells and Jeff Kent don’t own a mirror or they simply don’t own a conscience.

–For anyone interested in avoiding stupid, knee-jerk comments about who will and who won’t win in October, you should go read my friend Tom Verducci’s piece (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/tom_verducci/09/25/wild.card/) on the subject at si.com.