BREAKING NEWS: You Gotta Be Kidding Me?
Submitted by sparty on January 12, 2009 – 2:20 pm64 Comments
Sorry to Interrupt Studs and Duds…Earlier today in the comments, I made mention that the Baseball Hall of Fame has the highest standards for induction. Way to make me look like an ass.
This is just ridiculous. The Hall of Fame is suppose to be meant for the greatest players to have ever played the game. Baseball has done a fine job of ensuring this, for the most part.
Jim Rice? Jim F’n Rice!?!?! Ugh. Thanks to all the roid ragers, it is going to allow these pedestrian ball players to get in.*
Rickey Henderson should have been the only player in this class allowed in. I wouldn’t even have a problem if they let Big Mac in. This is shameful.
*which would be okay if Don Mattingly is allowed in
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Disagree on a thousand levels. All of the top 9 vote getters from this year should have gotten in. That’s all of these…
Name vote total vote percentage
Rickey Henderson 511 94.8%
Jim Rice 412 76.4%
Andre Dawson 361 67.0%
Bert Blyleven 338 62.7%
Lee Smith 240 44.5%
Jack Morris 237 44.0%
Tommy John 171 31.7%
Tim Raines 122 22.6%
Mark McGwire 118 21.9%
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This is tremendous.
Rice > Mattingly
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Don Mattingly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jim Rice
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Really GITC? You think Rock Raines should be in? I’m incredulous.
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I just noticed that that’s it for Tommy John. That was his last chance.
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Who’s next? Andres Gallaraga?
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Maybe they should perform Tommy John surgery on his hall of fame ballot? That would give him another 5 years.
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i don’t think mattingly should get in. but none of those guys are hall worthy, except Henderson.
nobody on that list is exceptional. meaning, no hall.
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5.2% of the HOF voters should get their right to vote rejected…along with two people who voted for Jay Bell and the one that voted for Jesse Orosco.
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Mattingly would maybe be borderline. But in truth he was better than Cal Ripken at everything. So if Cal is in Donnie Baseball should be in.
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Gammons on ESPN Radio with Tirico and Van Pelt right now.
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Screw Gammons, he’s probably masturbating to a picture of Jim Rice while giving that interview.
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kwsn-
Not taking the bait.
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Screw Gammons, he’s probably masturbating to a picture of Jim Rice while giving that interview.
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He says that he doesn’t really like him actually.
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Gammons is a shell of himself. He threw his professionalism out the window in 2003 when he cried on the air about the Yankees getting Aaron Boone.
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Bert Blyleven still not in…
He has the 5th most Ks ever. Behind only Ryan, Randy, Clemens, Carlton. He has more than Tom Seaver!
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nobody likes Rice as a person.
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I have a trash can that I got as a little kid that says, “Pitchers pay the price, when they face Jim Rice.”
I bet it’s worth hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars right now…
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I just looked at some numbers and figured out that if Jamie Moyer continues on his pace from the last few years he should move past Jack Morris, over the 5000 mark, and near Christy Mathewson on the strikeout list.
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if Robbie Alomar doesn’t get in next year, and Andrew Dawson does, i am never taking Lil Sparty to Cooperstown.
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Should the hall of fame include people just because they stuck around for 23 years and were average the whole time? I say no. So Bert Blyleven should be out. 3.31 ERA and 287-250 hardly wows me.
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Apparently a Federal Grand Jury is getting ready to charge Clemens with perjury.
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kwsn-Nolan Ryan?
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Nolan Ryan was not average.
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kwsn-a lot of walks and a high era, a lot of losses too.
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…but he was very good at punching Robin Ventura in the face.
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Huh?
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john- everyone was doing it?
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7 no hitters and the Robin Ventura beat down are good enough for me.
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Yeah…and everyone that was doing it probably won’t get in.
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McGwire should be in. The “outrage” over steroids is such BS.
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Jim Rice “dominated” his era. Good for him, he was the smartest retard.
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We’re making our own baseball hall of fame, so that McGwire, Clemens, and Bonds can be in it.
Signed,
Utah Ute fans.
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can Pete be in it too?
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Shoeless Joe?
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long comment from gitc in 5, 4, 3, 2……
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Mattingly HOF? Seriously?
For the best baseball moustache of all time, maybe (apologies to Rollie Fingers)
Fattingly
Rice
The only stats that Mattingly has over Rice was 2B (+69), Strikeouts (-979) and AVG (+.009).
Rice > Matt:
Seasons +2
G +304
AB +1222
R +242
H +299
2B -69
3B +59
HR +160
RBI +352
BB +82
SO +979
SB +44
CS +25
BA -0.009
Only reason that Mattingly had more doubles is because of Rice’s SPEED. +59 Triples.
/math’d
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but Marco, pitchers feared him. i did say that i wasn’t serious about Donnie.
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Now I get it. It’s a
WCNYFG greiving thing. Completely understand.(Quote)
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lol, ah, missed the not serious part
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Anyone know who the new big names that are eligible next year (if any)?
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Mattingly, perhaps?
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I’d back Mattingly for the HOF if he would shave those sideburns.
/Mr. Burns’d
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+1 John
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Mattingly was also on a shit team, whereas Rice had some pretty good talent around him.
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Wake got 2 votes for #1.
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Mattingly had a shittier back. Tino may never played in pinstripes otherwise.
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Sparty,
You are so unbelievably f’ing lucky that I was at lunch and couldn’t type a proper rant on my phone. Now I’m all full of chicken caesar salad and coffee, so I’m not in a fighting mood.
I will say this though. Jim Rice is a God among men. I will not sit here and allow you to besmirch his good name or his career. That man is a saint!
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and that may be the biggest lie ever told in the 6mos of S&Fs.
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Wooooooo! Finally won something!
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Jim Rice > D-Ho
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Jim Rice > Derek Jeter
/seriously
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On offense, you’re absolutely right. Though I’ll give Jeets the baserunning and defensive edge (even if he’s one of the most overrated fielders ever)
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Jeter scored more chicks too.
/Jessica Alba’d
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I love Derek, but even I don’t think he is Hall worthy. Look, i really believe the H o F is about the best of the best. It is getting bad.
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Hall alumni should get the vote, not freakin writers.
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you fellers need to relax a bit and head over to Happy Hour.
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I think Rice deserves it, these stats tell the story.
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mc wrath, +1 to your gravitar
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