Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Silva: Did Pettitte’s 250 Lock Him for Hall of Fame?
(sportsmediawatchdog.com)
I accept responsibility for those two uhh three uhhh four uhhhh five days.
Read More...Andy Pettitte locked up his 250th career win this past weekend against the Mariners. It now could be said the win also locked up his Hall of Fame candidacy, something that many thought was dead and buried after his retirement in 2010.
The naysayers will point out how Pettitte is the anti-Hall of Famer. He is good, not great. He is more a model of consistency than dominance. You could even point out the advantages ...
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1. eddieot posted on January 03, 2013 at 11:16 AM # hit 0 | hit 0How the hell did Russo crack that team? Ugh.
I hope they have a medium on call.
Maybe they've informally told Bonds he's been elected even though he's not), and this is all a ruse in order to get him to pick up the phone when they call. Just so Bob Costas can tell him he thinks he's a monster on television.
Have each orgnaization announce its votes live (ESPN casts 7 votes for Biggio, 4 votes for Morris,...) while tallying them on a big board.
That would be really cool if they can get Karl Rove on as a Jack Morris strategist.
Or perhaps like election night. "With 19% of the precincts reporting, Jack Morris is still too close to call."
Two hours on Deacon White, Jacob Ruppert and the umpire would be fine with me but I doubt that I'm the target audience for this.
I hope you aren't right.
If there is only one player elected, I suspect it will be Jack Morris, and then he'll have the narrative of "The Last Clean HOF" or some stupid #### like that.
His supporters will point out how he got elected while Bonds/Clemens/Sosa/Piazza/Bagwell did not.
My hope is that the organizing group for this are really so clueless they don't see a ZERO elected option.
With the insipid "Had a bad day" American Idol song. And nutshots.
I think Biggio goes in.
This made my day.
Have each orgnaization announce its votes live (ESPN casts 7 votes for Biggio, 4 votes for Morris,...) while tallying them on a big board.
I'd like that, but at the very least I'd require each voter to post both his choices and his reasoning online onto a central database website. I'm surprised nobody's suggested this already.
#2 particularly.
You'd sure think that they wouldn't, since they'll look like absolute idiots if they come up with a blank.
Boy talk about polar opposites. Its like Gisele Bundchen is sitting next to Madeline Albright.
Will MLB.com dare to do phone interviews with Michael Otis, the President of the Chamber of Commerce in Cooperstown or Vice President Ken Meifert (the senior director of development for the HOF) for their reaction?
Will MLB.com dare to do phone interviews with Michael Otis, the President of the Chamber of Commerce in Cooperstown or Vice President Ken Meifert (the senior director of development for the HOF) for their reaction?
They should just say Biggio got in, even if he barely misses. He's going in eventually given his debut. Might as well be now.
Or perhaps like election night. "With 19% of the precincts reporting, Jack Morris is still too close to call."
This would be the most awesome thing ever.
I've always said that if no one is actually elected, that the hof will "fudge" the numbers to ensure the top vote getter is in. I wouldn't be surprised to see Biggio or Morris finish at 76.1% or something like that.
They'll actually hang all sportswriters named Chad.
No one asked for a critique of Fox News.
I won't be the one to tell them Jessica died in 1994.
The HOF collecting gizmo would indicate it would take a lot of fudge to get Jack Morris into the HOF this year.
Holy crap. Before I clicked on the link, this clip is exactly what came to mind.
So I have more faith in Carnac the Magnificient and the envelopes kept hermetically sealed in a # 2 mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall's porch since noon today than E&Y and the envelopes they may hold for the HOF.
ED: "Backne!"
CARNAC: "That is what Carnac just said. Backne."
(tears edge off envelope, blows into it)
CARNAC: "What two body parts were touching each other in the 1990s while the BBWAA had its head up its ass? Backne."
ED: "HAR! HAR! HAR!"
AUDIENCE: "Booooo!"
CARNAC: "May your only daughter come home smelling of Icy Hot and the cream."
AUDIENCE: (cheers)
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