Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Does Anyone Deserve The Hall This Year?
Yeah, uh, not really.
Witness this paragraph from a write-up on cbs.sportsline.com:
1) It means that voters must still think that certain elite players deserve a first-ballot election to the Hall of Fame, and other lesser candidates deserve to get in only when they have been passed over at least once.
That's a pile of Seattle-Slew-shit.
If you deserve to get into the Hall, you deserve it on your first try. No need to delay the entry.
It's like Chris Rock said at last year's Oscars: "If you want Denzel Washington and all you can get is ME....wait!!"
2) It means that voters will elect lesser players to the Hall when there are no obvious, first-vote, absolute-elite stars on the ballot.
Since guys like Gwynn and Cal Ripken are not yet eligible, they're thinking about electing a guy like Bruce Sutter? Bruce Sutter??? This is an elite player? Hall of Fame-worthy?
The Hall should be reserved for the truly fantastic, legendary players. Willie Mays. Ted Williams. Joe DiMaggio. Etc., etc., you know the drill. Bruce Sutter??? Next thing you know Bruce Bochte and Bruce Benedict will get in.
Seems like there is no one who fits that bill this year. We won't be upset if Andre Dawson is elected, but we're willing to allow for only that one. Nobody else. If Rich Gossage is elected, we will drive to Cooperstown this summer and stand at the front gate, arms outstretched, and attempt to block his actual physical entry into the induction ceremony, and--
OH YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING. We just heard that Bruce Sutter was just elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Well, now they've opened the doors for just about everyone.
We would like to announce our eligibility for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Hey, we haven't played in a major league game in the past five years!
If you want a Hall of Famer, and all you can get is Bruce Sutter...
WAIT!!!!!
Witness this paragraph from a write-up on cbs.sportsline.com:
With no strong first-year candidates, Sutter, fellow reliever Rich Gossage and outfielder Jim Rice appear to be the players most likely to gain election among the 29 on the Baseball Writers' Association of America ballot.What does this paragraph really mean?
1) It means that voters must still think that certain elite players deserve a first-ballot election to the Hall of Fame, and other lesser candidates deserve to get in only when they have been passed over at least once.
That's a pile of Seattle-Slew-shit.
If you deserve to get into the Hall, you deserve it on your first try. No need to delay the entry.
It's like Chris Rock said at last year's Oscars: "If you want Denzel Washington and all you can get is ME....wait!!"
2) It means that voters will elect lesser players to the Hall when there are no obvious, first-vote, absolute-elite stars on the ballot.
Since guys like Gwynn and Cal Ripken are not yet eligible, they're thinking about electing a guy like Bruce Sutter? Bruce Sutter??? This is an elite player? Hall of Fame-worthy?
The Hall should be reserved for the truly fantastic, legendary players. Willie Mays. Ted Williams. Joe DiMaggio. Etc., etc., you know the drill. Bruce Sutter??? Next thing you know Bruce Bochte and Bruce Benedict will get in.
Seems like there is no one who fits that bill this year. We won't be upset if Andre Dawson is elected, but we're willing to allow for only that one. Nobody else. If Rich Gossage is elected, we will drive to Cooperstown this summer and stand at the front gate, arms outstretched, and attempt to block his actual physical entry into the induction ceremony, and--
OH YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING. We just heard that Bruce Sutter was just elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Well, now they've opened the doors for just about everyone.
We would like to announce our eligibility for the Baseball Hall of Fame. Hey, we haven't played in a major league game in the past five years!
If you want a Hall of Famer, and all you can get is Bruce Sutter...
WAIT!!!!!
