Posted on 01/26/2022 8:18:07 PM PST by Rummyfan
Yesterday, a group of sportswriters voted David Ortiz into the Hall of Fame. They did this even though Ortiz tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003, around the time he transformed himself from a below average hitter to a star.
In other Hall of Fame news, Curt Schilling fell well short of the number of votes required for admission because woke sportswriters with ballots don’t like his politics. Here is what I wrote on the subject when Schilling — or rather the voters — fell short last year.
Schilling should view his exclusion as a badge of honor, and there is reason to believe he might. After last year’s vote, he asked that his name be withdrawn from this year’s ballot — the last one he is eligible to appear on.
Baseball’s Hall of Fame has become a joke. It’s a waste of time to discuss it.
However, this is a good time to celebrate Curt Schilling’s accomplishments. His career WAR (wins above replacement player) is 80.5. That’s just behind Bob Gibson and just ahead of Tom Glavine and Carl Hubbell. All three are generally considered upper tier Hall of Famers.
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Let’s Go MLB!....
We are truly living in an Orwellian world when any violation of groupthink negates an entire sports career.
FJB plus FMLB!
They are going the way the Nobel Prize went which no longer has the respect it once had since awarding it to President Obama for no reason other than being black.
What a bunch of petty little bastards leftists are.
If he was a human “of color”, he’d be in already. Same with Roger Clemens. They aren’t in the HOF because they are WHITE.
So why did Ortiz get in but not Bonds and Clemens? That’s not being consistent.
Bonds didn’t get in.
Right you are.
Yes, and BHO accepted as his due.
Communists are not big on free speech.
If you’re an American, especially a Caucasian American, your days of playing for a professional plantation team are numbered. Caucasians can only be spectators now.
The sports and entertainment plantation...
I never really understood the entertainment value of sports. Probably because in my mind sports is a competition whereas entertainment is not, there are competative aspects in entertainment such as “the best” this, or “the most glamorous” that...
Sports on the other hand seeks to annihilate from the beinging of the event until the event is over. How is that considered entertainment?
MAIN CONTACT INFORMATION
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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BASEBALL HALL OF FAME EXCLUDES CURT SCHILLING DUE TO HIS POLITICS but voted in David Ortiz to the Hall of Fame......even though Ortiz tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003.......coincided around the time he was a below average hitter.
SOURCE
Powerline ^ | 26 Jan 2022 | Paul Mirengoff
Posted on 1/26/2022, 11:18:07 PM by Rummyfan
MAIN CONTACT INFORMATION
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
25 Main Street
Cooperstown, NY 13326
Phone: (607) 547-7200
Toll-free: (888) HALL-OF-FAME or (888) 425-5633
Fax: (607) 547-0398
Email: info@baseballhall.org
BASEBALL HALL OF FAME EXCLUDES CURT SCHILLING DUE TO HIS POLITICS but voted in David Ortiz to the Hall of Fame......even though Ortiz tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003.......coincided around the time he was a below average hitter.
SOURCE
Powerline ^ | 26 Jan 2022 | Paul Mirengoff
Posted on 1/26/2022, 11:18:07 PM by Rummyfan
I lost all interest in “sports” once the “showboats” took over. Supposedly grown individuals acting like a bunch of spoiled little brats.
He asked to be excluded.
Sorry, Roger and Barry Bonds both did not get in because they were known juicers.
Shilling belongs in, steroid users do not.
The entertainment value of sports is that all the bars and restaurants can have something common on in the background. Its a social leveler.
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