It's Superb Owl weekend, so I am going to indulge myself a bit with a niche post and piggy back off of Erik's NFL Hall Of Fame musings. It's a built in feature of Halls Of Fame that they are in some ways defined by...
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JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA - FEBRUARY 06: Wide receiver Terrell Owens #81 of the Philadelphia Eagles finishes off a 30 yard run in the first quarter against the.
The Baseball Hall of Fame voting procedures are a joke, now even more so with random rule changes to ensure that those big bad steroid users everyone loved at the.
While I have no problem with Bobby Cox, Joe Torre, and Tony LaRussa getting elected to the Hall of Fame, evidently the standard for being a great manager is working for a high-revenue team over a very long time. What I'd like to see is...
This is a couple weeks old, but is still awesome in every way: Dear Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee members, I had the dubious pleasure of reading an.
I'm alternately pleased that he was finally selected and outraged he was denied the honor for which he was obviously overqualified while he was alive. As for who the next.
Alomar was a slam dunk once the idiot "first ballot" convention was dispensed with, and his name was on 90% of the ballots. Blyleven's election (79.8%) is a bit of a tribute to the power of saber-knowledge. Others: Larkin 62%, Morris, 53.5%, Lee Smith 45%,...
My yays: Bert Blyleven Bert Blyleven Bert Blyleven* Robbie Alomar Jeff Bagwell Barry Larkin Edgar Martinez Mark McGwire Tim Raines Larry Walker *Anyone who argues in comments against Bert Blyleven,.
Scott's thoughts on the latest HOF ballot got me thinking about the whole "the first ballot ought to be sacred" line of thinking, this year ably represented by Jay Mariotti's.
I was happy to find this site, which is nobly trying to remedy what is currently an egregious injustice. I also like the excerpt of bad arguments, which will provide a fix for those who miss Fire Joe Morgan! (I especially like the one about...
Looks like Jim Bunning may be getting the hook:Some Republicans are privately urging Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) to step down at the end of his term amid growing concerns that.
With Henderson going to the Hall of Fame, now is as good a time as any to relive the greatest Rickey stories of all time. This profile in The New.