Baseball Hall of Fame '13: Who gets the call?

[wrveres]

If you can't vote for Bonds, who exactly CAN you vote for?
7 MVPs
8 Gold Gloves

If you're going to make a case for Bonds, you can't base it on MVP and Gold Glove awards. You can't expect the Hall of Fame voters to use awards voted on by a pack of ignorant morons as criteria for selection.

I don't think he's basing it on anything except the fact that he is one of the best players of all time. He's allowed to include awards in his list Bonds' achievements without it being the basis for his case.

I'm thinking you missed the typical vandelay joke here. Please read again.

[GiantsFan14]

If you're going to make a case for Bonds, you can't base it on MVP and Gold Glove awards. You can't expect the Hall of Fame voters to use awards voted on by a pack of ignorant morons as criteria for selection.

I don't think he's basing it on anything except the fact that he is one of the best players of all time. He's allowed to include awards in his list Bonds' achievements without it being the basis for his case.

I'm thinking you missed the typical vandelay joke here. Please read again.

Probably should have read who posted it before responding.

[GiantsFan14]

http://joeposnanski.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-three-ped-arguments.html

[Art Vandelay]

If you're going to make a case for Bonds, you can't base it on MVP and Gold Glove awards. You can't expect the Hall of Fame voters to use awards voted on by a pack of ignorant morons as criteria for selection.

I don't think he's basing it on anything except the fact that he is one of the best players of all time. He's allowed to include awards in his list Bonds' achievements without it being the basis for his case.

I'm thinking you missed the typical vandelay joke here. Please read again.

If I knew how to make those fancy 'memes' that all the kids are talking about, I'd make one of the guy from that alien cartoon saying "not sure if worst insult ever directed at me on the Cafe, or best compliment."

[kaiser]

Seriously? You presumably created this thread with the knowledge that the chief debate surrounding this year's ballot was what to do with Bonds/Clemens/Sosa. You also incited that specific discussion immediately with your ridiculous first post including only Craig Biggio and Dale Murphy while ignoring Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens (the obvious class of this field or any other). No, there was no hijacking here. Let's not pretend that them calling you on that wasn't exactly what you wanted.

Actually, I just wanted to know who were the general favorites for HOF this year.

[wrveres]

I don't think he's basing it on anything except the fact that he is one of the best players of all time. He's allowed to include awards in his list Bonds' achievements without it being the basis for his case.

I'm thinking you missed the typical vandelay joke here. Please read again.

If I knew how to make those fancy 'memes' that all the kids are talking about, I'd make one of the guy from that alien cartoon saying "not sure if worst insult ever directed at me on the Cafe, or best compliment."

You should take it as a compliment. I luaghed.

[wrveres]

Can someone poke me when we get to the steriods/vision part of the discussion.

Thanks.

[GiantsFan14]

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=25506905&topic_id=&c_id=mlb&tcid=vpp_copy_25506905&v=3

Just found this and it seemed somewhat relevant. I could watch this on loop for hours.

[mweir145]

I miss that.

Utterly ridiculous that people are really going to try to keep that out of the HOF.

[mweir145]

Seriously? You presumably created this thread with the knowledge that the chief debate surrounding this year's ballot was what to do with Bonds/Clemens/Sosa. You also incited that specific discussion immediately with your ridiculous first post including only Craig Biggio and Dale Murphy while ignoring Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens (the obvious class of this field or any other). No, there was no hijacking here. Let's not pretend that them calling you on that wasn't exactly what you wanted.

Actually, I just wanted to know who were the general favorites for HOF this year.

http://youtu.be/HQfzwFloVqA