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From time to time, Blangraphs offers controversial views by leading baseball bloggers in a guest post series we call "BG Pressbox." This week, Sand County Moisture Prospector reporter Gazappo Nernbladt offers some of the unwritten rules behind press voting.

It's that time of year... AGAIN.

I'm not just talking about the Dr. K's Exotic Animal ER Season Premiere.

All around the Outer Rim, the Guild of Wookiee Writers Alderaan Memorial (GWWAM) consider the evidence and select the Incom-Freitek Wookiee of the Year, and so many are clamoring for Chewbacca.

Sure, all the galacto-nerds who spend their republic credits on scomp link access probably crunched the numbers and have a nice stat justification for Chewbacca, or "Chewie" as they call him on the holonet. They yell out "he was a two time Death Star exploder!" or point to the number of stormtroopers that he dispatched.

But at under 300 years old, I think it's a little too soon to get so excited for the youngster just yet. His flamboyant antics (stealing an AT-ST and giving his teammates a scare) might play well to the fans, but long time observers know that it takes a steady hand and not flashy moves to be a true WotY.

Even if Chewbacca does win the award, it would not be proper for it to be handed over unanimously. That just seems too easy and I can't say that his achievements match the performance we would expect from a first-ballot, unanimous WotY. There's so much left to prove for the young Wookiee before we crown him in such a way.

If there is any decency left in Wookiee journalism, we should hope that some voters would go with the dependable, valuable, and respectable option and vote to venerate the honorable Grakchawwaa, King of Kashyyk.