2013 Hall of Fame Ballot Discussion

[DieHardYankee26]

Quote: Originally Posted by Bob Nightengale

We didn't juice, take steroids or even wash down our double-double cheeseburgers with a six-pack of Red Bull. But we, members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, pitched a shutout against the powerful Hall of Fame. Wednesday, for the first time since 1996, not a single player was voted in.

What snepp said.

[OSUFan_88]

Quote: Originally Posted by DieHardYankee26

What snepp said.

Was that a joke article, or are the BBWAA really this power drunk?

God, I hope the newspaper business gets rid of sports reporters.

[phenom1990]

Quote: Originally Posted by Sportsforever

Haha I wasn't being serious. I just wanted to say something that sounded like some of the rhetoric the sportswriters had been saying. The part where I said I commend the sportswriters for not voting in the best of their generation was my attempt at some type of Colbert/ Jon Stewart/ Family Guy or South Par humor.

[DieHardYankee26]

Quote: Originally Posted by OSUFan_88

Was that a joke article, or are the BBWAA really this power drunk? God, I hope the newspaper business gets rid of sports reporters.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...orris/1820591/

[NYJets]

Quote: Originally Posted by elTodd

The thing that I don't get is that some people say "So-and-so isn't a first-ballot HOFer. He's more of a 3rd or 4th ballot guy so I won't vote for him until then.", as if the HOF is separated by which ballot each guy got into. Once they get into the Hall, NO ONE cares what ballot they got in on. If you think a guy should be in the HOF, vote for him every year he is eligible. Not that hard of a concept. One of the many reasons I don't like the HOF voting process.

This, and the guys who won't vote for someone because they don't believe anybody should be a unanimous selection, are the 2 things that piss me off the most. At the top of a long list.

[OSUFan_88]

Quote: Originally Posted by DieHardYankee26

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...orris/1820591/

What a *******.

[Sportsforever]

BTW - these HOF voters who make it seem like such a sacred thing to receive their HOF vote and are therefore so 'worried' about casting a vote for such criminals as Bonds, Clemens, Piazza, Biggio, etc really kill their own case when they vote for the likes of Aaron Sele, Steve Finley, Sandy Alomar, Shawn Green, and company instead.

That doesn't scream "this is important and I can't vote for PED's"....it screams "I have the power and I'll yield it how I wish".

[gopher_guy]

Quote: Originally Posted by 55

I'm sure that Rose's "lifetime" ban will be overturned the year after he dies and he will be voted in on the first shot. Now if they would only lift the ban on Jackson as well. Almost a century has passed for ****'s sake.

What would be the point of lifting the ban after the guy is dead? An apology to his family or something?

I'm not saying the ban is right or wrong, but if they feel they are in the right by banning him (which they clearly do because the ban is still there), they shouldn't have to apologize to anyone, and I wouldn't see the point of the MLB "honoring" him after death. If you're gonna do it, lift the ban now while the guy is still alive.