Baseball Hall of Fame ballot released

Yes, unless Simon also voted for Ron Paul. Then it's OK.

 

Hirshbeck wasn't the sole reason for not voting for Alomar. But the thrill of voting no to prevent someone from being a unanimous first rounder weighs heavily. If Henry Aaron, Willie Mays,Tom Seaver and Bob Gibson were not unanimous choices, you can believe that Albert Pujols won't be one when it's time for vote him in.

 

You should if you voted for that one guy who ran for governor a few years ago, dude who said he was a vampire.

Roughly analagous to voting for David Segui.

 

Sorry, you don't get to vote tactically, I don't care if you covered for 100 years.

If your vote says you don't think Albert Pujols is a HOF player, then you shouldn't be voting.

 

Early 20th century trash talk -- at the expense of someone who was the Rain Man of his day.

Beautiful.

 

IATS

 

Rain Man started it. ;D

 

A Posnanski commenter put up this graf on Waddell from Cooperstown historian Lee Allen:

“He began that year (1903) sleeping in a firehouse in Camden, New Jersey, and ended it tending bar in a saloon in Wheeling, West Virginia. In between those events he won 22 games for the Philadelphia Athletics, played left end for the Business Men’s Rugby Football Club of Grand Rapids, Michigan, toured the nation in a melodrama called The Stain of Guilt, courted, married and became separated from May Wynne Skinner of Lynn, Massachusetts, saved a woman from drowning, accidentally shot a friend through the hand, and was bitten by a lion.”

 

Were Waddell around today, he'd probably have been diagnosed with ADHD and been on several different types of medication since childhood.

 

I'd like to see what The Stain of Guilt is all about.

 

Damn I am GOOD.