As much as I love baseball, the Hall of Fame voters give me cancer.
I was talking with a sports writer friend of mine who is also super into baseball like I am. We are both 22 could not not say who Tim Raines or Alan Trammell were prior to the HoF discussion and yet there are people who are throwing bitch fits on the internet as to why they are not inducted. I really don't get this. I understand being upset over someone like Fred McGriff who we all heard of before. But when I think of the greatest players of all time, my Tim Raines and Alan Trammell don't enter my mind. Hard for me to justify someone being robbed of a HoF spot when I don't know who they are and I watched them as a kid.
Additionally, I also found it EXTREMELY funny how Clemens got 199 votes and Bonds received 195. I have no explanation for why someone would think that Clemens deserves the HoF and Bonds does not besides the fact that some idiot moron New York writers decided that Clemens was innocent and Bonds not. Seriously can think of no other explanation but if one of you guys are like minded, please enlighten me.
Finally, in the stupidity of the Baseball HoF, there was a writer by the name of Marty Noble who in
this article (control+f to find him) explains why he voted only for Grif and Jeff Kent of all people. While I don't disagree with his choice to name only 2 HoF'ers as being worthy (the idiots who select the max 10 players and honestly consider them HoF worthy need to lose their votes), I do think he should be fired from his job as a result of his explanation of his vote. For one, the guy must never have heard of Vine as he says he wishes he had a loop video of Jr's swing. This shouldn't get you fired, but it took me 10 seconds on google to find a hundred loop videos of Grif. Secondly, he states that he voted for Jeff Kent because he was the "Babe Ruth of second base" and all his notable flaws on defense are flawed because he loved the game, but not as much as Griffey. The guy has a man crush on Jeff Kent, okay. Fine. I would have voted for Nomar, so that's fine. However, on top of this, he also goes on to describe that he "almost cast votes for McGriff, Mussina and Wagner. More research and analysis, though, are necessary."
Yup. Isn't it your FUCKING JOB AS A SPORTS WRITER AND A HALL OF FAME VOTER TO LOOK AT THE NUMBERS OF THE PLAYERS YOU MIGHT WANT TO VOTE FOR? Who does this moron think he is? And why would he pick these middle of the road guys, but leave out Piazza, Bagwell, Hoffman, or Schilling? Did he forget that he had to vote for the HoF and could only do research on SOME players? Is he copying off of other writers and seeing what they're picking and THEY didn't do the research? And if you've already ruled out superior candidates such as Hoffman, Schilling, etc. why are you saying that you might have voted for players with worse numbers on the count of you not researching and analyzing more? I'm not buying it. Shut the fuck up and give your votes to people who give a shit.