A great post from Bill Miller’s always excellent On Deck Circle. Fans of the Great Game may not always be logical, but they are passionate! More to follow.
I’ve been reading a sampling of the vast body of opinion regarding the 2014 baseball Hall of Fame ballot, which includes many of the most famous (and infamous) names in baseball history: Bonds, Maddux, Clemens, Sosa, Bagwell, Biggio, Piazza, Schilling, Glavine, Mussina, Morris, Raines, etc. Predictably, there is not only little consensus on which players belong in The HOF (with the probable exception of Greg Maddux), but there also seems to be a great deal of disagreement about what standards we should even use to judge these players.
What follows is a random sampling of the often contradictory (occasionally hallucinatory) opinions that fans and writers have expressed online regarding the players, and the Hall of Fame voting procedure itself. The player being commented upon appears in parentheses.
1) “He was a compiler. He needs to get used to the fact that he was a good, but not a great player…
View original post 945 more words
On Sports and Life 
Mike, Thanks so much for re-blogging my post! I really appreciate that.
-Bill
By: William Miller on January 5, 2014
at 8:56 pm
More than happy to Bill. It tied right in with what I was writing about this eve, and you had (as usual) done such a great job that had I attempted to cover the same ground myself I would have just wound up stealing from you. Which quite obviously would not be right!
Happy New Year!
Mike
http://www.onsportsandlife.com
By: Mike Cornelius on January 5, 2014
at 9:12 pm
Mike, While we’re on the topic, I have a new post on the HOF coming out tomorrow, regarding what, historically, is a “typically average” Hall of Famer.
Cheers,
Bill
By: William Miller on January 5, 2014
at 9:44 pm