Harold Baines
Posted on 12/10/2018 1:13:45 PM PST by C19fan
If there were a city where the baseball Hall of Fame was going to get wild and crazy, it’s probably here. The Winter Meetings are in Las Vegas this week and the first order of business Sunday night was announcing the results of the Today’s Game era Hall of Fame ballot, which gave 10 people a second-chance at Cooperstown. Two players were elected: Lee Smith, the former saves leader who was the best bet on the ballot, and … Harold Baines?!?
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He is surprised so that says it all. Lee Smith too? Wow!
Ever since Jim Rice, it has been the Hall of the Pretty Good. Dale Murphy was better than Harold Baines, as were a bunch of other guys not in the hall.
Harold Baines was one of the best pure hitters of his era. Hall of Fame? Debatable.....
Baseball HoF lost all credibility the moment they kicked out the most prolific hitter in history - Pete Rose. For something that had nothing at all to do with his playing career, no less.
I am not sure how Harold feels. The poor guy is getting killed on sports radio and media. All this criticism was not his doing. He is much beloved in Chicago. He does not deserve getting killed because of some stupid committee.
He definitely should accept it though. There are plenty of players who don’t belong there, I suppose.
At the risk of igniting the Pete Rose debate, we all.know why he’s not eligible for the Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame does not consider players who have been banned from baseball.
Lee Smith was a dime a dozen closer. I remember when he spent a few seasons with the BoSox. He started out as anole fashioned multiple innings reliever to the La Rusa coming in for the 9th role.
Harold Baines
gaddam globalist crony capitalist corporate whore uniparty rinos.
I have thought the Hall of Fame should be honoring the all time greats, the ones for whom there is no debate about whether they belong.
I have thought that, if you have to get into a debate about whether a player was truly one of the great in, then he’s not Hall of Fame material.
You could make a roster of fine players who aren’t in the Hall of Fame, because they were good solid everyday players , but not among the greats.
Less than 2% of all the players who ever played major league baseball have been honored with membership in Cooperstown. Which means a lot of really good players just aren’t in that category.
> The Hall of Fame does not consider players who have been banned from baseball.
That may be so, but the lack of Pete Rose in it makes the HoF a farce. He is the #1 player ever in four major statistical categories (hits, AB, singles, games played).
His exclusion shames the Hall to such a degree that no baseball fan should take the HoF seriously.
Pete did that to himself. There is no betting in baseball.
The riddle is answered.
Might as well let Dwight Evans in too. Same kind of guy.
He wasn’t a player when he did that, he was a coach. It had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with his unmatched playing career.
Excluding his player accomplishments based on his actions as a coach are precisely what makes the HoF laugh-worthy, or cringe-worthy, rather than respectable.
Harold Baines has now surpassed Tim Raines as the most idiotic Hall of Fame selection of my lifetime. LOL.
pete rose can suck it. he did the thing which you may not do. a lot.
This is one of those veterans-committee type inductions that got Bill Mazeroski, a career .260 hitter, into the Hall. At least Bill won a World Series and was even the hero for the Pirates in the series against the Yanks.
Harold Baines??? The only thing I can say is that he was by all accounts clean when it came to PEDs. Maybe the writers are sending the juicers another message - we’d rather have marginal players in the Hall over you cheaters.
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