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Well, the real votes for AL Cy Young are in:

C.C. Sabathia, CLE       19   8       119
Josh Beckett, BOS         8  14   4    86
John Lackey, LAA          1   5  16    36
Fausto Carmona, CLE           1   4     7
Eric Bedard, BAL                  1     1
Roy Halladay, TOR                 1     1
Johan Santana, MIN                1     1
Justin Verlander, DET             1     1

The SOTD reader votes are back here and you folks did a great job predicting the finish. Readers submitted 32 ballots but the real voting had only 28, so I'm scaling the SOTD results . You predicted Sabathia first with 95 points, and he actually got 119 points. You predicted Beckett second with 64 points and he actually got 86 points. So far, great. After that, SOTD readers had Bedard, Carmona, and Lackey roughly tied for 3rd, 4th, and 5th with about 23 points each. Real voters favored Lackey, though, putting him 3rd at 36 points. Carmona was the only other pitcher to get more than 1 vote.

All in all, I'd say it was a stellar job by the SOTD readers. I believe the primary difference between the real voting and your voting is that you folks considered a larger pool of pitchers and gave out votes more carefully. The real voters basically only considered Sabathia and Beckett for the win, whereas 9 of you awarded first place to somebody else.

We have one more poll to check, and that's National League MVP. That doesn't get announced until next Tuesday, so check back a week from today for results.

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AL Cy Young voting results

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