2013 MLB Hall of Fame Screechfest

I give it one year of Cooperstown and the Hall making no money from that week, then a stern warning to the BBWAA next year, and if the attitudes don't change then the voting procedures will.

 

hey writers, have fun picking 10 out of this group:

Jeff Bagwell
Craig Biggio
Barry Bonds
Roger Clemens
Tom Glavine
Jeff Kent
Greg Maddux
Edgar Martinez
Fred McGriff
Mark McGwire
Jack Morris
Mike Mussina
Rafael Palmeiro
Mike Piazza
Tim Raines
Curt Schilling
Lee Smith
Sammy Sosa
Frank Thomas
Alan Trammell
Larry Walker

 

Obviously, I don't have much of a problem with this. Some individual players? Sure. Particularly Raines. But it's just a fluke of circumstance that a bunch of borderline guys were on one ballot like this. It's a one-year blip, nothing more.

 

HOF moves a step closer to irrelevancy.

 

Totally agree. Too much money at stake.

There's a reason they added up that trumped up tribute to World War II era inductees (Gehrig, Hornsby, etc.), because they knew this year was going to a be financial black hole.

 

I'll guess it right now -- next year is Maddux and Biggio, with the veterans committee putting in Bobby Cox, Joe Torre and Tony La Russa.

 

Glavine (300-game winner in the steroid era) will make it too. With him, Maddux and Cox, it will be an epic Braves weekend in Cooperstown.

 

Schilling's low vote total this year does not bode well for John Smoltz in two years. Their resumés are very similar, though Smoltz was/is far more popular with the writers.

 

The BBWAA should have its voting rights yanked immediately for this.

 

Why?

 

They were better players?

 

Next year will be the last year I'll have a vote. The moralizing, hypocritical seamhead caucus will never change (Murray Chass doesn't seem to be mellowing with age, fer instance) and MLB will not tolerate the obvious absurdity of an entire 15 years of history being ignored out of spite and delusion. Stand by for ads urging fans to cast their vote for the Cialis National Baseball Museum and Hall of Fame.
It's good to know unproven suspicions are what alleged journalists regard as proof. Poor Bagwell.
They're my former colleagues. Many are friends, but as a group, the BBWAA has lost any claim to moral authority on anything.
Dick, for the reasons cited above. Qualified candidates were kept out not on proof of wrongdoing, but on suspicion of same, and out of shame, too many guys decided not to elect anyone, even players never even suspected of steroid use. That's the act of cowards, and of men and women unfit to serve as decision makers.