Baseball Hall of Fame ballot released

It seems that most of these players are trying to win a battle of attrition with the voters.

 

Lots of attention to his cause.

 

Instead of a 15 year eligibilty period - I'd make anyone who didn't get in in the first two years but reached a certain level have to wait three years before making the ballot again. And three more years after that. until you get the 15 or 16 years.
I have a feeling that some seamheads are looking at who will be eligible in the coming years and figures they'll "slot" players for certain years when there isn't a drop-dead first ballot HOFer.

 

Hell, no. This is what is right about the process. Blyleven's career has been re-examined in different ways as time has gone on. Writers, who like to front about how much they hate that robots are going to start playing baseball, have paid attention and responded.

I think the process is perfectly fine as it is. No need to complicate it with a bunch of arcane rules.

 

I've got no problem with them making Blyleven wait. It's not like he's Sandy Koufax.

But I am more than a little annoyed that they're making him wait three years after he hit 60 percent.

Everyone who has ever gotten 60 percent gets in. He should have gotten in last year. Or this year. Now he gets to wait another year.

If he gets run over by a bus, 26 percent of those voters ought to be ashamed of themselves.

 

Blyleven had a good career but I never considered him a Hall of Famer when he played. And time hasn't swayed me in that regard. I've examined the stats and IMO, they're not Hall of Fame material. I like Edgar Martinez and think he's in the same class as Blyleven, a cusp Hall of Famer.
If anyone should be outraged, it should be Larkin and Alomar. Both are worthy and their showing was awful.

 

Right, but, in fairness, you don't know shit.

 

Have you ever covered MLB Zeke?

 

Yes, I have. Not that it really matters. I could cover lesbian tiddleywinks.

You'd still be a tool.

 

Is the lesbian tiddlywinks played with "loser eats out winner" rules?

 

Sometimes these threads really resemble a 2nd grade playground.

 

Lesbian tiddlywinks was a great sport until a bunch of assholes with laptops and stats and facts ruined it.