Here’s a little game called Judge(s), Jury(s), and Executioners that the BBWAA (Baseball Writers Association of America) perform every year. The masses call it the MLB Hall of Fame Ballot. Many will never see it, many will face...
Read MoreAnother year, another class enshrined in Cooperstown. Usually, my first instinct is to bemoan those excluded and bitch for the trillionth time about how crooked the voting process is. While I still think that process needs to be...
Read MoreGoodbye, and thanks for the great memories to: Lance Berkman was the second best switch hitter of his era behind Chipper Jones. He finished his career as arguably one of the best switch hitters in the history of the game. That...
Read MoreAtlanta Braves teammates Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine were selected to the Hall of Fame with 97.2 percent and 91.9 percent, respectively, of votes. Frank Thomas, the Big Hurt, also eclipsed the necessary 75 percent in order to be...
Read MoreA year after the Baseball Writers Association of America neglected to vote in a single player, the 2014 ballot provides a greater array of more enticing choices. Not everyone will get in (sorry Mike Timlin and Richie Sexson),...
Read MoreOur votes don’t count for anything, but this is my wheelhouse. These are the players from when I was a kid collecting cards, and watching 500-plus games a season. Here is the complete list of candidates. The rules are the same...
Read MoreI like that it is difficult to get into the Hall of Fame. To me it’s better to keep a great player out than to be too loose with your entry standards and let a less than excellent player in. Now, the Baseball Writers Association...
Read MoreTony La Russa’s unanimous election to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown last week has really gotten under my skin. There are the little things like being McGwire and Canseco’s manager through the birth of the Steroid Era....
Read MoreTalent wise Barry Bonds should not only have been a first-ballot Hall of Fame inductee, he should have challenged for the highest percentage of anyone who has ever been elected. Because he cheated, knowingly or unknowingly, he...
Read MoreWhile a lot of purists are sitting smug in their cocoons of self imposed perfection I look at this year’s Baseball Hall of Fame vote as a crying shame of self-righteousness. We can look at the facts, and we can look at the...
Read MoreHere is a list of the official ballot results for the 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame. You can see my articles on Craig Biggio Got Robbed, and the Writers Playing GOD coming shortly as we kick off the 2013 writing campaign, but as of...
Read MoreLarry “Chipper” Jones addressed his teammates at the All-Star Game Wednesday night telling them what an honor it was to be in the same locker room and playing in the same game. Jones didn’t have to do tha, but the quiet, classy...
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