The Baseball Hall of Fame ballot is out and it is time to vote. You can pick ten people at most or none if you are so inclined. So here is my vote based on order of value so to speak
Barry Bonds. Yeah I know. He's a juicer. So what. I mean Scarlet Johansen has implants but you would still fuck her. The numbers don't lie.
Roger Clemens. Much as I hate him you can't fight with the numbers. I mean the guys in the 1920's didn't play against black guys or have night games or a bunch of different shit. It is the numbers in the era you are in that count.
Greg Maddux. Best pitcher of his era bar none. Douchebag because he wouldn't come to the Yankees but I can over look that.
Tom Glavine. Just because he will not wear a Mets hat and that will piss them off.
Mike Piazza because you should have a gay guy so the Evil Blogger Lady won't scream and sue you or something.
Frank Thomas because he started the Wendy's Hamburger chain.
Tim Raines because he played for the Yanks for a while and the Expo's need a couple of guys in the Hall.
Craig Biggio because he is Italian. And a drug addict. And a Houston Astro. Oh yeah. Plus 3000 hits.
Jack Morris because when the game is on the line he is one of the guys I would pick to give the ball too because he is a winner.
Curt Schilling. Yeah I know. He beat the Yankees. With the Diamond Backs. And the fucking Red Sox. But he is a winner.
Mike Mussina. Because I get one Yankee pick. Fuck you.
48 comments:
Ken Caminiti was the Houston infielder drug addict, not Biggio. Fuck, you could work for the NYT.
Maddux, Glavine and Thomas.
Hey they are Astros who gives a shit.
That's not a real baseball team.
So if Bonds, what about McQuire and Sosa?
They don't have the numbers that Bonds did and they were basically one trick ponies.
I wouldn't vote for Dave Kingman either.
My write in candidate Pete Rose.
Give Rose a Shot at the Hall
Enough is enough.
Don't lift the ban.
Just give him a shot, just like they are giving the steroid players.
They don't have to lift the ban for that.
I met Dave Kingman. His first cousin in a good friend of mine. As soon as games were over @ Wrigley, Kingman would leave, often w/o showering and drive to his nearby boat in Belmont Harbor and go fishing. He's a mope.
Vote Rose in AFTER HE'S DEAD! He bet on baseball and lied about it. Cardinal rule, "Those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it." And, when Rose is voted in posthumously, vote in Joe Jackson.
Hot Stove League is required today, it's -18. I'm heading west early.
Rose should never be allowed in.
Neither should Bonds or any other roid-heads.
In fact, the hall should be closed to all players who played after about 1990.
The game is as illegitimate as Obama.
Hot Stove League - perfect for a winter day.
Let Rose in. He didn't juice, he just bet, like every other human who follows sports.
Keep the 'roid heads out forever.
I must not be much of a sports fan as I have never bet on the outcome of a game.
For example, I tuned into last night's game when it was 21-3. I might have been tempted to bet on an Auburn win at that moment.
That's why I don't bet - my ability to predict the future is not good.
But I never made it to the bigs, either. I did read A. Bartlett Giamatti's book on why Rose should be banned forever and I agree with him.
Babe Ruth was a juicer, just sayin'...
Sixty, My sister worked w/ Giamatti @ Yale. Great guy.
He was. His book is awesome. Biggest mistake he ever made was giving that asshole Brodhead a job. That sumbitch belongs in a low circle of hell.
Haz, You have heard of the 1919 Black Sox Scandal? Every player is told that is the 3rd rail, betting on baseball. Rose was a baseball historian, he knew better than all others. A worthless human being, liar, and degenerate gambler who gambled w/ the integrity of the game. I feel my posthumous induction idea was gracious.
Were I Rose I would be wary of the offer of a posthumous induction made by an Italian, just sayin'.
"Here's the deal - you'll get in the Hall, but we need to make a slight adjustment first."
Sixty, I had to Google it, so you don't like the Duke President!
My sister would travel w/ Bart. Down to earth guy. She worked for Yale Alumni and would guide him through Alumni functions around the country. He was fat, a chain smoker and voracious eater. He would often order 2 entrees @ dinner. He offered to hire my sister when he left Yale to become NL President. However, my sister declined and took a job @ Choate as Director of Development. A lot of similar alumni.
Sixty, I'm visualizing the "induction" of Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.
Brodhead is a criminal. He violated the basic constitutional rights of the lacrosse team based on the word of a drug addicted prostitute and a feminazi SANE nurse Tara Levicy.
Imagine having your legal future in the hands of someone like Althouse or Inga or their demon spawn and you will have an idea of what those innocent men went through.
Yet, to this day, Brodhead has a job and the Gang of 88 has prospered and spread their virulent message of racist hate far and wide across academia.
Thanks for nothing, Brodhead. You are the worst of the fellow travelers and undeserving of common decency or respect.
Spinner - you got it!
Rose is still a degenerate gambler. I saw him w/ a baseball cap on low so as not to be noticed @ the Mandalay Bay sports book parlor a couple years ago. He was sitting in a horse betting cubicle w/ some puta. It was obvious he didn't want to be noticed so in a BIG Vegas voice, I said "PETE ROSE, HOW YA DOIN'?" I got a very terse, "Fine."
Sixty, I didn't realize he was the president @ that time. Then I hate him right along w/ you.
Glad I could help further your education. He came to Duke from Yale and all I can say is - as good as Giamatti was, Brodhead is the polar opposite. A total dickless criminal. Not worthy of the ammo required to remove him from society. Not that I would do such a thing, mind you, I am too beautiful to go to prison.
I see where Leisure Suit Larry is going after AllenS and his expertise in farming.
Man that guy is just unbelievable.
Plus he is claiming that President Mom Jeans is really Fred 4 Pres again. I think the Sunday night drunk is lingering into Monday or something.
Ruth was addicted to beer and hot dogs. Don't really buy the "they didn't have black guys and night games in the 1920s" argument".
Yes, they had legalized spit balls until what 1923, twilight games, no air-conditioning, it took almost a day by train to get to Chicago and St. Louis. Ruth had to hit against the 160 best pitchers in the USA, there are now 280. Not to mention, no modern sports medicine, training methods, or equipment.
And I looked at sports records, and didn't a big drop in Ted Williams HR's or batting average after jackie robinson.
And keep Rose and Bonds out. Both of them are liars and cheats.
Ol' CJ was right about Lem's place. I still like some of the peeps over there but some of the turds keep popping up through the litter.
Well what is happening at Lem's place is that there is not enough conflict and posting at TOP so Leisure Suit Larry has to come by and gin up some conflict. When we don't acknowledge him then he goes after other people like he did with AllenS.
This is old news for him. He tried to pull the same crap at Cracks place which would have worked out better for him since so few people visit there he could be as big a douche as he wanted without any real pushback.
That was an odd one - AllenS has always been a standup guy, a straight shooter, a man who served his nation, a self-sufficient man who has paid his own way.
Complete opposite of ***.
Deborah said it best - there is trouble in paradise. And by paradise I mean the hell that is ***'s house. Say what you will about debs, like her or not, she did nail that one.
Little Debbie is very smart and she can read Larry easily. He is after all pretty transparent.
The thing is that there is something rotten in Madison and it finds its expression on drunken Sunday nights.
I do think that debs likes to stir the shit. Which is fine. I like to do that myself.
You just don't want to be odd man out when the music stops.
The Hall of Fame, if it is to go on being the place where when you get in you're getting into the most exclusive club in all of sports, has to be limited to the unquestionably dominant players. Not very good, dominant. And dominant over a long stretch of time, 15 years give or take a year.* By that standard only Bonds and Clemens qualify. You want a watered down H of F, you wanna be "nice," you let in the Mimosas or Mumibias or whatever that Yankee journeyman pitcher's name is.
*There are exceptions to the 15 year rule, DiMaggio and Koufax for example, but they were off the charts dominant in their relatively short careers.
That should have been 15 years at a minimum.
Lou Gehrig; Mickey Mantle; and.....Mike Mussima? I rest my case.
Warren Spahn; Tom Seaver; and....Mike Mussima? Lordamighty.
Sue me I misspelled his name but I'm not misspelling misspell so that oughta count for sump'n, yes?
I voted for Mike Mussina because he will get the homer vote.
Just like Mike Piazza will get the homo vote.
By that standard only Bonds and Clemens qualify.
How about Spahn, Seaver, and... Maddux?
Spahn: 363 W, 245 L; 3.09 ERA; 119 ERA+; 1.195 WHIP
Seaver: 311 W, 205 L; 2.86 ERA; 127 ERA+; 1.121 WHIP
Maddux: 355 W, 227 L; 3.16 ERA; 132 ERA+; 1.143 WHIP
That's a pretty good list overall, Troop.
Good on ya for including Schilling. The HoF traditionally has focused on regular-season stats, but I think it's time to give extra weight to postseason performance, which clearly puts Schilling over the top.
Then Schilling can sell his Hall of Fame plaque on eBay and pay his trailer rent for a month.
That would be a pretty savvy sale, since the plaque would be bolted to the wall of the HoF.
I think Schilling makes it on his status as an innovator as he is the first player to need a maxi pad in his shoe because he was such a pussy.
But I think he belongs in.
You notice I didn't vote for Mattingly. Not everyone belongs in.
You know who I think deserves it but won't make it?
Bernie Williams.
I like to do it myself. You just don't want to be odd man out when the music stops
Lol! True enough.
Spinelli wins the trifecta.
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