It’s still weeks away, and I already feel like Super Bowl XLI is going to be one of the most boring sporting events of my lifetime.
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Fame
I say this. You just can’t leave the Hall of Fame to people. It can’t be done. It shouldn’t be done. How are you going to ask people, I mean, people for Christ sakes, to judge the merits of their peers? Are you kidding me?
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Ironman Over Big Mac
Recently inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame, was one of the greatest players to ever step onto a baseball diamond. Cal Ripken Jr. has finally received the greatest recognition in all of the sport for his accomplishments to the game of baseball, by being inducted into the Hall of Fame, many are still questioning the induction of Cal Ripken. It amazes me how many times I have read or seen someone say that Cal Ripken doesn’t deserve to go into the Hall of Fame over Mark McGwire. It comes as no surprise to me, as to why he was inducted. I will explain why Ripken was inducted into the Hall of Fame and why Mark McGwire was not.
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MLB Power Rankings 2007 Season
The baseball season is up and coming, and the power rankings for the 2006-2007 are here. Take a sneak peak of the new baseball rankings as we head into the new season. Where will your team end up?
Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn, locks for the Hall of Fame, were officially announced as the only elected nominees for this year. This generation of players is the one that brought baseball back from the disastrous strike. While Ripken and Gwynn may be viewed as perfect citizens, Mark McGwire did more to bring the sport back than anybody else on the planet, and his record is just as clean.
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The Hall’s Blunder
The Major League Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown is the biggest disgrace to the game.
Never, not even in refusing to induct Pete Rose, has the Hall proven to be as flawed as it did today.
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Casting My Ballot
Let’s just say, for sake of argument, that the Baseball Writers Association of America ignored the fact that I am not actually a member of the BBWAA, although I pretend to be. And let’s just say, for sake of argument, that the BBWAA were willing to overlook the 10-year rule, in order for a member to become eligible to cast a ballot for the Hall of Fame voting.
I don’t know why they would bend these cornerstone rules for me, of all people, but let’s just say they did.
Then consider this my official ballot.
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Hope Springs Eternal In The Bay
by Trevor Freeman
On December 25th I was talking with my grandpa at the Freeman Family Christmas party. In his late 80s, he is suffering from lung cancer (despite the fact he never smoked) and does not resemble the lean, former collegiate track star I had always been used to. A lifelong San Francisco Giants fan he yearns for the World Series title that has eluded the cursed franchise since they left New York. The subject of Barry Zito came up and his exact words were, “If we could get him, then we’d have a real shot.”
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Oprah Hendry & The Cubs
Since they last won the World Series in 2000, the New York Yankees have spent $1 billion on players who, in the grand scheme of things, delivered nothing but headline material for the New York Post and proved that while you can sometimes buy competitiveness, you can never buy a championship.
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Generation Foolish
Sure, Carl Pavano has only pitched 100 innings in the last two years, making $1.175 million dollars per start. But while George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees may be perturbed, Pavano has revolutionized the game of baseball, financially. In 2005, the Yankees responsibly dealt with a four year championship drought by signing the “one-year wonder” Pavano, who along with a 4.21 ERA and 57-58 record, offered the opportunity for the Yankees to be the first franchise in any sport to have an annual payroll of over $200 million dollars (Or to some, 4/5 of Alex Rodriguez’s contract).