The National Baseball Hall of Fame announced that Andre Dawson was the lone inductee in Class of 2010. They went on to decide that he was to be inducted as a Montreal Expo. Why do I have a problem with that? Because, he was not given a choice of which cap to be displayed on his plaque. In 2005, Wade Boggs was voted into the Hall with 91% of the vote. 75% is needed for induction. Wade's best years were in Boston and with the Yankees. He finished up with 2 lackluster years with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays (as they were then known as). He had a combined 200 hits in his time with Tampa and got his 3000th hit with them. Now, upon his election to the Hall, Boggs was going to be inducted as a Devil Ray because they were going to pay him a large sum of money to do so. This same issue came up when the Padres paid Dave Winfield a huge amount of cash and a high level administrative position in exchange for going in as a Padre. I get the fact that the Hall doesn't want a pay for play deal here, but, JEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSUSSSSSSSS CHRIST!
Andre Dawson was the first player to win an MVP for a last place team, the Cubs. He brought life to a moribund club in 1987. He should have had more say to go in as a Cub, as he alluded to in interviews. I am absolutely happy that he is being inducted. He is one of 3 players to have 400 homers and 400 steals over the course of a career. Willie Mays and Barry Bonds are the others. I say Good deal Andre.
Now, the genius sportswriters fucked up again. Bert Blylevyn was 5 votes short of induction. He finished his career with 287 wins and 3701 strikeouts. He has more wins of any other Hall eligible pitcher and ranks 27th on the all time wins list and 5th on the strikeouts list. The knock is he is 10th on the losses list and had an ERA of 3.31. Not great for his era, but Phil Niekro and Don Sutton had more losses and higher ERA's and less strikeouts and made it to the Hall because they won 300 games. Douchebag writers.
The writers also left Roberto Alomar out of the Hall. He missed by eight votes. Here's what he accomplished: 17 seasons, Rookie of the Year in '88, 12 straight All Star Game appearances, top 5 in MVP voting 5 times, 10 Gold Gloves, 2700 hits, and a career .300 hitter. Several writers left their ballots blank because they felt that Alomar disgraced the game by spitting is John Hirschbeck's face in '96. The writers failed to realize that Hirshbeck called Alomar a "maricon". For those that are not bi lingual, maricon is basically equivalent to calling someone a "faggot" in english. However, in most Latin cultures this is a term that will get your ass kicked for calling someone that. Writers have long punished players for things that have nothing to do with their on the field credentials and are a bunch of bitter, jock sniffing elitists. I believe that the Hall change the voting formula to include Hall of Famers in the voting and not just for the Veterans Committee. Pete Rose belongs in the Hall!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Bitchin' Again
I saw today that former professional wrestler "Dr. Death" Steve Williams passed away on December 30, 2009 from throat cancer. Pro Wrestling was a huge part of my life as a youngster. Steve was one of my all time favorites. He was a fucking beast. He was a 4 time All American wrestler at Oklahoma and an All American football player for Barry Switzer, as well. Steve was teamed with the late Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy in Japan. They were the most vicious and destructive team, outside of the Road Warriors, that Japan had ever seen. They were portrayed as vicious enemies here in the states. RIP Steve.
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