Tuesday, January 10, 2006

What A Joke

The Hall of Fame will welcome Bruce Sutter this year. And only Bruce Sutter. It's not Sutter's election that is a joke, it's the lack of enough votes for Bert Blyleven, who should already have been voted in several years ago.

More later on this, but suffice to say it's time, IMO, to blow up the current voting process. A vast majority of these old egomaniacal jerks on the BWAA need to be put out to pasture. The baseball Hall of Fame has now become too exclusive. Great players are being left out for the lamest of reasons.

Bert Blyleven struck out more batters than all but four...FOUR...pitchers in major league history, and won 287 games playing with some of the weakest run support of all major league pitchers in his era. He got screwed again today.

As I've always said, if he'd have worn a Yankee or Dodger (or even Cardinal) uniform for a majority of his career, he'd have been elected the first chance he had.

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