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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Monday, January 09, 2012Another shutout for Brewers Walk of Fame
Complete voting totals in the article. (Is Wes Obermueller a better or worse Walk of Fame candidate than Bill Mueller is a Hall of Fame candidate? Meditate upon this.) The District Attorney
Posted: January 09, 2012 at 11:45 PM | 19 comment(s)
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1. deputydrew Posted: January 10, 2012 at 08:43 AM (#4032984)Milwaukee's culture is to consider anyone who has played in the city as one of their own.
I would hope folks consider it quaint versus something negative.
So the best way to be elected to the Brewer Walk of Fame is clearly to have been on the 1982 team.
It's not working for Ben Ogilvie!
I know, I know, he never played for Milwaukee but he certainly pitched in Milwaukee and, well, he's just so ... Morris-y.
No, not Morrisey. No man who has ever scuffed a ball, pushed off the rubber and worked the corners could be less Morrisey than Morris.
And my grandfather grew up with him. So just do it to make me feel relevant, dammit.
Growing up, I always thought Moose Haas was the best name ever... Teddy Higuera rolls off the tongue. Ben Ogilve just sounds like a thumping OF. Sixto Lezcano would be a legendary name in any sport... the eastern European in me loves names like "Vukovich". Rollie Fingers has to be pictured with a handlebar mustache even if he had never had one. I'm very glad that Brooks Kieshnick was able to get a couple cups of coffee in Milwaukee.
EDIT: Dammit Walt beat me to it! And did it better.
I would hope folks consider it quaint versus something negative.
Makes sense to me. Certainly makes more sense for the players to be honored in the city they played.
Like Snapper, I consider it logical rather than quaint. I don't see any reason why former Milwaukee Braves shouldn't be celebrated by both the franchise they played for and the city they played in.
To me, the problem with the Mets isn't that they want to honor Jackie Robinson and the other Brooklyn Dodgers. It's that they seemingly ignore the history of the other NL club that played in New York.
I suppose in terms of eloquence, maybe R.A. Dickey, and in terms of brooding and pettiness, maybe Kevin Brown.
But the thing is that Jackie Robinson is Jackie Robinson and I have no idea who the #### Johnny Logan is. :-)
I struggled to recall Jose Capellan, but I think I pulled it out (without looking: righty reliever, came from Braves, was a bit of a prospect, probably threw hard). I do remember the name "Raul Casanova", if not much of anything else about him, and it's amazing he'd be on a ballot for anything. Bill Castro, don't know him either (and yet he got more votes than Richie Sexson, who was really pretty good.)
The Brewers should have just elected one per year.
That would have carried them through 2016, with no awkward skips.
And at that point, they could do one every other year, roughly.
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