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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
My FB friends already know my feelings on this ...
That the outcry is over the absence of Bonds & Clemens rather than the less than 20% showing for Dale Murphy says much about the sorry state of baseball, the media and the country as far as I'm concerned. The criteria is that "voting shall be based upon the player's record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributions to the team(s) on which the player played." ... Murf should have gotten in 15 years ago.
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Is the Dale Murphy argument one of those "you had to be there to understand" arguments? My first year of baseball awareness was 1988, the year he kind of fell off a cliff. It's hard for me to say that a guy that wasn't anything special or downright terrible after age 31 is Hall of Fame worthy.
Of course I have a sneaking suspicion that Dale Murphy is the epitome of what you consider to be the glory days of your baseball memories?