Wednesday, December 12, 2012
2013 Results: Bonds, Clemens, Piazza and Biggio are elected to the Hall of Merit!
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Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mike Piazza and Craig Biggio have been elected to the Hall of Merit!
The timing for our first year electing 4 candidates could not have worked out better, since class of 2013 is the strongest in terms of electees that we’ve ever had. The top of the 1934 ballot included Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Eddie Collins, Pop Lloyd, Smokey Joe Williams and Cristobal Torriente, but only 2 were elected.
Bonds and Clemens were each unanimous at 1 and 2. I believe that’s the first ...
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1. boteman posted on September 30, 2012 at 12:15 AM # hit 0 | hit 0MASS HYSTERIA!
Also I think I read somewhere that only twice has "Yankee Classics" been a Yankees loss: Jeter passing Gehrig in hits (where they apparently ended the broadcast of the game with the hit) and the 1977 All-Star Game (which the AL, and by extension Yankees, lost).
Just out of curiosity, how many World Series game sevens has NESN ever shown? What about replays of the Dent, Boone, or Andino games?
BITD the most famous Red Sox game of the entire 1950's was the one where Ted Williams spit at the sportswriters after hitting a home run.
Phil Rizzuto must be pissed.
I thought surely the entity with exclusive access to that stuff would show, you know, Dog the Bounty Hunter or something.
Appropriate, since the Yankees are the team for the modern tool.
"I tell you, son, when we started out here, we had nothing but a dream and a smile -- and multi-billion dollar television rights."
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