Just great. Now we’ll have at least one more year of Goose Gossage moaning about how today’s closers have it way too easy.
If you live in the Boston area, substitute the second sentence above with “at least one more year of reading how Jim Rice was jobbed.”
On the bright side, at least we’re spared the awkwardness of Bret Saberhagen saying, “no thanks.”
How come people get rather up in arms about Goose and Rice but no one seems to care about the snubbing of Bert Blyleven which is going on close to 10 years? You would think 13 wins short of 300 and being 5th on the all-time strikeout list would be enough.
FYI – It’s Bret Saberhagen. (If he wasn’t on the ’85 Royals team, I probably wouldn’t bother. Royals fans, by local statute, have to defend the ’85 team and its members.)
no one seems to care?
http://www.all-baseball.com/richbeat/archives/016874.html
http://www.baseballanalysts.com/archives/2005/12/the_hall_of_fam.php
http://baseballanalysts.com/archives/2005/12/the_case_for_be.php
http://www.bertbelongs.com/
http://espn.go.com/mlb/s/2002/0728/1411078.html
Grant,
I regret the error. Typing while driving is a bad idea.
Well, I stand corrected. At least 5 people care.
PB,
it’s a boston-NYC centric media corps. ’tis not right.
I’d like to know who voted for Dante Bichette and Bobby Bonilla.
I’d like to know who voted for Jay Buhner
The NY Times offers the following re McGwire:
“The verdict on McGwire could have a trickle-down effect on the Hall of Fame chances of other players who have been linked to steroids. Rafael Palmeiro is one of four players with more than 3,000 hits and 500 homers, but he failed a drug test in the 2005 season. Sammy Sosa, whose home run battle with McGwire in 1998 entranced much of the nation, has also been linked to steroid use and his unrevealing testimony at the 2005 Congressional hearings has been criticized as well.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/sports/baseball/10fame.html?th&emc=th
Excuse me, but has Sammy admitted steroid use or been proven to have used? He’s disliked throughout baseball naturally and shouldn’t be unfairly linked to drugs.