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I believe they culled the voter list for the Hall a few years ago, removing those writers who'd been tenured into a voting position even if they hadn't covered baseball for many decades. Now I believe if you haven't covered the game for more than ten years, out you go.

A lot of a certain type of Cub fan will never abandon Mark Grace.

In all seriousness, I think Sammy's star started to plummet once he got busted for the bat breaking open in that Rays game, and it finally hit the ground after he walked out early on the team in the last game of the 2004 season, leading fan favorite Mark Grace to smash his boombox.

Maybe because Sammy isn't black anymore? 😏

Besides his legitimately great performance in playoff situations, Ortiz has the advantage of being, as you say, jolly. If he were a lippy black man with the same stat line, no way he gets in even with the postseason performances. But "beisbol been berry berry good" to him, so in he goes. Never mind that he never paid any price for his poorly-excused usage, but woe to the guy with almost 700 career homers who, when caught, quietly served his time, didn't lip off about any injustice or anything, then came back and just went right back to work. He did it right. And he'll never get in as long as this generation has a say in it.

Agree. Regardless of how much PED smoke or fire there is around the guy, they were always going to find a way to get David Ortiz into the Hall.

And here's another newbie using his first post on a sports-first forum to come in hot in the politics section.

Larry David is awesome.

The Tigers are far enough along where this does not sound like a ridiculous statement. Man, that feels good.

I agree. I think their new logo is too chintzy and minor-leaguey.

Houston is in fourth and under .500.

I would not doubt if they made week-long series a permanent feature of minor-league baseball even post-pandemic. It's certainly cheaper.

My half-baked first idea took the 20-day rule into consideration. Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing the first two weeks glommed onto the final two weeks, which would create a final day of season of October 16. I wouldn't mind a World Series stretching into mid-November. I think that would be kind of neat. But I think traditional fans would throw a hairy conniption at the very idea, and even semi-wintery weather would be a real concern for players. Depending on who's playing, they'd be more likely to have neutral site games in domed stadiums or warm weather venues, which would piss off fans of northern cities who would be robbed of the opportunity to see their boys play the Series locally. It would be a real shitshow to start late and still try to get in all 162. But, to your point, Baseball doesn't seem to care much about inconvenience to cities and fans.

I think it would depend on how much the season gets pushed back, but let's assume for this discussion my scenario of an April 15 start plus an extra week in October happens. That's two fewer weeks on the front end and one more week on the back end. One way would move part of the first two weeks to the back half, have a combination of doubleheaders and a couple or three fewer off days, and keep everything else as is. The easiest thing for the Tigers in that scenario would be to move the Seattle and Oakland series to the end of the year; move the Red Sox series to current off days July 21-22 (doubleheader on 21); move one of the White Sox games to off-day September 15 and the other two to make doubleheaders in the June 13-15 and September 15-18 timeframes; and add a doubleheader to one of the Royals series. It's all a pain in the ass, but workable. Another thing they can do is to simply push back the entire schedule two weeks and compress the schedule for some combination of fewer off days and scheduled doubleheaders. This could probably work logistically because teams' travel secretaries may not have made any arrangements with out-of-town hotels in light of the coming lockout and likely schedule rebalancing. I doubt they would simply reduce the season to the romantic ideal of 154 games because that would cost Baseball TV and gameday revenue, and Players would push for their constituents to be paid for an entire 162-game season, which I doubt Baseball would agree to. However it comes out, I can't imagine that they would not have the plan for a restructured 162-game schedule in place before they ink the new CBA deal. But who knows, maybe they're unconcerned about all that while no deal's in place. Maybe it'll be just sign the deal and we'll figure out

I’m still thinking they won’t talk in earnest until after the Super Bowl, when the spotlight shuts off football and people typically look toward baseball as what’s next. That’s when they know they’ll have to get busy in order to look busy. I’m still thinking 162 games starting around April 15 and ending October 9, a week late.

Exactly! 😁

Not all coercive, non-consensual sex rises to the level of aggravated rape. Sometimes girls and women give in to sexual coercion when they don't want to, just to get past the moment with as little harm as they can manage to.

How do we prevent a full-grown man from imposing himself sexually on a woman or girl a third or half his size?

After Roe is overturned, how soon will it be before we see states try to pass legislation that criminalizes women who travel for abortions in legal states and then return home? I could see something like that being tied up in federal courts for years, which by itself would give the idea the imprimatur of even-handed legitimacy.

He was caught on the phone already trying to!

Randy Quaid looks like he’s been dealing without electricity, heat, and water for some time now.

Here’s my link: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/its-official-election-was-secure Now let’s see yours.

Apologies if this was posted here last week because I don’t remember seeing it, but: my new favorite news anchors.

We already have that, in spades.