We'll find out this year whether Yankee phenom Gary Sánchez is the real deal.
Posted on 01/19/2017 10:57:02 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
No kidding.
Very happy news for me yesterday: Detroit Tiger Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez was voted into the Hall of Fame. (What? He played for some other teams as well? I don’t care.) Magglio Ordonez deserved better than his one-year-and-out fate. Carlos Guillen deserved better than zero votes. You may disagree, and you might even care about players who never played for the Tigers, although I can’t imagine why.
But that’s one of the things the Hall of Fame elections are for - debate among fans.
Sportwriters are typically to the left of Paul Krugman, and they do the voting.
So, the ideological bigotry of sports writers is supposed to change minds or silence decent?
Time for conservatives to go on offense.
To ESPN’s credit, they have been unanimous in agreeing that this is ridiculous.
The first player elected to the hall of fame was Ty Cobb. Manager Casey Stengel stated that “Cobb was the best ever. No one else was even close”.
Despite that, I suspect he would be left out in today’s PC world.
The funny thing is just about all the facts everyone knows about Cobb are not true.
It appears the ignorance that prevails in the MSM is in their sports writers.
Curt fills in for talk show radio host Howie Carr in Boston. The radio show airs weekdays 3PM - 7PM and is heard in all six New England states as well as on the Internet.
Besides being an excellent (former) major league ball player (Boston Red Sox), Curt Schilling is quite good as a conservative talk show host.
Most of them vehemently deny this, but Curt was right that if he had posted “Lynch Trump”, he’d be in the Hall of Fame by now.
It wasn’t always that way. Sometimes, they would shunt the conservative reporter to the sports department to prevent him (or her) from altering the biased left-wing news coverage.
I saw it in TV too.
Politics or not, Curt Schilling was not going to be voted into the Hall of Fame.
Last year he received 52.3% of the vote and this year he received 45% of the vote.
He needs 75% and has been no where close to that threshold.
I can also see why Curt Schilling would have a hard time getting into the Hall of Fame, aside from anything related to his politics. He had a difficult career to assess from a pitcher's standpoint. 200+ wins might be good enough in today's era where starters don't every fourth day and pitch 250+ innings in a season anymore, but his 216 wins doesn't really stand out at all. He never won a Cy Young Award, and his Hall of Fame credentials are really based on his postseason stats more than anything else.
He may eventually get in, but I suspect he'll have to wait until a bunch of "200 wins is the new 300 wins" pitchers retire.
I’m glad Pudge Rodriguez got in. He was the most dominant catcher of his era.
He was good when he played with the D’backs as well.
I thought Rodriguez might be hindered by the PED questions about him. In his case, I wonder if a lot of the voters decided to let him in because he might be the last dominant catcher in MLB for a while.
If Curt had been a sniveling, snowflake Democrat, he would have been in the HOF already.
Yup! He and Randy Johnson got us a World Series against the New York Yankees. Seven games. A great series.
I heard Curt today on Dan Patrick’s show. It was an excellent interview. Curt does not care what the sportswriters write about him. He called a bunch of them scumbags and he’s absolutely right.
How exactly did his politics affect his ERA?
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