Baseball Hall of Fame ballot released

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/jon_heyman/01/04/heyman.hall/1.html

Tell me that ballot isn't openly mocking the process.

 

Ray Sons of the Chicago Sun-Times forgot to turn in his ballot one year. It was the same year that Nellie Fox was in his last year of eligibility for election by the BBWAA and failed to be elected by two votes. Ray didn't lose his vote in future elections.

 

I feel bad for Robin Ventura.

 

He's defended it. He believes in it. He's dead wrong, but he's not purposely mocking the process.

 

.323 on-base percentage for his career gets Dawson in and Mark McGwire gets a measly 128 votes.

If it wasn't official before, it is now: Halls of fame are stupid.

 

Waylon --

You're on a voting panel essentially with one responsibility before you. It sure as hell doesn't seem to be improving working conditions for sportswriters, which was the original mission statement 100 years ago.

Panels vote. Players play. Managers manage. And haters hate.

 

You know damned well that McGwire's vote totals have nothing to do with his on-base percentage or any other number.

 

Did you read his "defense"?

Just putting words around that ballot doesn't mean anything to me. And nothing he argues, there, makes any kind of sense.

 

I meant they would want to make sure he doesn't get in unanimously, but we can go with that, too.

 

Thrilled Dawson made it...

Absolutely fucking stunned Alomar didn't. I wonder if some of the questions regarding Alomar's personal life could have had anything to do with that.

 

It means they are sitting at home wanking in their bathroom to baseball cards from when they were kids and thinking about how pure and white the game is when they are around to defend it. Or something stupid like that.

 

Yup it has to do with conjecture. A man's entire career is being thrown aside without a shred of proof. He was never caught and never admitted to using supplements that were against the rules.