[yooper]

Bottom line? Bull Durham was a movie, in other words pure fiction. Tim Robbins is not now, nor has he ever been, a MLB baseball player. That fact alone is enough to disqualify him from speaking at the Hall of Fame.

MLB is real. The MLB president has an obligation to protect MLB from anyone who might tarnish the image of MLB. He did just that.

Robbins should shut his pie hole. He has absolutely no right to speak to an MLB gathering without the authority of the MLB brass. The brass said no, and for good reason.

[F16Fighter]

"Tim Robbins is not now, nor has he ever been, a MLB baseball player. That fact alone is enough to disqualify him from speaking at the Hall of Fame."

ALL people -- especially conservatives -- ought to wise up...

Tom Hanks shouldn't be considered an authority or honored by American Patriots, and D-Day and WWII enthusiasts by virtue of his Hollywood role on 'Saving Private Ryan' either, but he is.