Tiger337

Arrogance is entertaining if (1) You can back it up. (2) You are genuinely confident and not just showing off I think Henderson was both. I don't care for some of the stuff they do today where each player tries to one up the previous bat flip or strikeout dance or plans it ahead of time. I don't really care. If they are enjoying themselves, then it's fine, but I don't find it entertaining.

The Clintons were seen at that site a month ago. That is not a coincidence.

MLB owners are most conservative of all sports. Even moreso than NASCAR. https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s10101-022-00266-1?sharing_token=wVvYTstALZAE5xGV71Pegfe4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY6GrNIhOmlV9vQfoqf50ey1Abm9PjPHrp-ypSZBXyQx_ey-vk7MTi7KJeosCg-YENHFsaTAwklWO2jjQ_A_VBJix6ToyhiAhFfKTW6G0b68M3OyCn4idy8x79yhBVeheec%3D

The 1980 game started at 8 and lasted 3:45. I think there was a rain delay which brought it up to 1:00. I liked when the leagues were separate and there was no interleague play. The all-star game and World Series were more fun because it was the only time the leagues would meet. There were always debates about which league was better - not only in talent but style of play. In the 70s, the NL was regarded as being more speedy, athletic and tough. There was no agreement on talent. Whichever league your favorite team was in was the superior league. The NL used to win the all-star game all the time..but not the World Series.

I remember staying up for that. I was not happy that it ended in a tie.

It seems like they should have done this a long time ago. They did start raising interest rates in 2018, but Trump intimidated them into dropping them again further kicking the can down the road. .

I see some so called experts telling us there is going to be a massive crash. Others say it's still a bull market. I say it's all bullshit. Nobody knows what is going to happen next.

Tucker Carlson is a worthless shill for MAGA. There is no reason to even watch the video.

Yes, every president gets blamed when things are going bad for the country regardless of fault. I doln't think there is much chance he would win re-election right now.

Yeah, it was definitely well known that athletes were using the stuff. I remember people talking about it in the 80s.

I believe McGwire left the PEDs visible in his locker during the 1998 season when everyone was enjoying the home run chase. There was some discussion about it, but it was then swept under the carpet because the home run explosion was good for publicity.

I often wonder whether PEDs would have become such a big deal if Bonds didn't break McGwire's record. It seemed like nobody really cared about PEDs until Bonds broke the record. It's not like they didn't know athletes were taking them. When I heard about football players using it many years before that, I just assumed it was being used in all sports.

The musuem already does celebrate the history of the game and its players. Bonds is in there. Rose is in there. The plaque room is different. I think it should include all the greatest players.

I don't care either. It makes me dislike him as a person, but it has nothing to do with his baseball performance. I wouldn't have voted for him because he wasn't that great of a plyer. I think Schilling is the biggest dick ever and I still would have voted for him.

Oh I see you already said that! I was just looking at the chart.

Another thing I'd like to see them do is require that all ballots be public. The private ballots tend to be writers that don't vote for many players. This is not a presidential election. It's sports. You would think that sports writers would want to make their votes public and talk about them.

You can't weed them all out. So, what's the solution? Use a statistical algorithm? Maybe, they can have a statistical algorithm to make sure all the best players get in. Then they can have a ballot where the writers can vote for the borderline guys that don't get in statistically. Rank voting might yield better results too. Make the writers rank every eligible player and then add up the ranks. Any writer that is not disqualifying Bonds will probably give him a really high rank and he might end up doing better than Ortiz. If any writers think that is too much work, they don't have to vote.

Their peers are the ones who put Harold Baines in the Hall of Fame. The writers are fine, but they need to get rid of the ones that don't take it seriously. If they haven't covered the game for ten years, they shouldn't be voting.

I enjoy seeing all the negativity here about Ortiz. I think he is legit, but he was probably about the 9th best player on the ballot and has some of the same character flaws as those who were better. It's funny because everybody in Boston thinks he is greatest thing ever and I was hoping he'd have to wait his turn.

It shows that he wants to win.

I go back and forth on Sheffield. He was a poor fielder which I think legitimately brings down his value. That hurts him with young voters and the other stuff hurts him with old voters. Another thing is the 10-vote limit and the PED log jam. It was not difficult to find 10 better players than Sheffield on recent ballots. Players like Sheffield, Kent and Abreu should do better next year. Personally, I do not think any of them are shoo ins.

I think it's mostly his stolen base records that got him in. It's just that stolen bases are not as valuable as we though they were at the time. I tend to rank players on value rather than fame. I wouldn't be upset if Sosa made it. He had an odd career though playing in the perfect era for his main skill. I think he probably benefitted more from his era than any else playing at the time. Put him in the 70s or 80s and I think he hits maybe 150 fewer home runs.

Raines was borderline too. As much as I don't like to say this about my first baseball hero, Brock doesn't belong by today's standards.