OT: No One Elected to the Hall?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Kenny Cole

LOL, pretty much all of them, including Mays, Aaron and Mantle.

I suppose they only enabled performance, not enhanced it. I get it.

[Kenny Cole]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

I suppose they only enabled performance, not enhanced it. I get it.

I would think that any drug that enables performance, pretty much by definition, also enhances said performance. I'm glad you get it because I sure don't.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Kenny Cole

I would think that any drug that enables performance, pretty much by definition, also enhances said performance. I'm glad you get it because I sure don't.

Maybe the writers can explain?

[novakjr]

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think there's too much money to be lost by NOT electing anyone new.. And the Hall of Fame IS a business. I think if everybody falls short, that the numbers may be fudged to make sure at least 1 BBWAA player is elected. I also suspect that this also may have happened before. I think that a case could be made for Dawson, Gossage, and Sutter possibly fitting this category. They were all VERY borderline and questionable inductions, who coincidentally were inducted in years in which the BBWAA would've otherwise elected no one..

Unless, they're willing to let a statement be made, and force change in the voting process.

Whether it be legitimately, or conspiratively, I think at least Biggio gets in this year..

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by novakjr

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think there's too much money to be lost by NOT electing anyone new.. And the Hall of Fame IS a business. I think if everybody falls short, that the numbers may be fudged to make sure at least 1 BBWAA player is elected. I also suspect that this also may have happened before. I think that a case could be made for Dawson, Gossage, and Sutter possibly fitting this category. They were all VERY borderline and questionable inductions, who coincidentally were inducted in years in which the BBWAA would've otherwise elected no one..

Unless, they're willing to let a statement be made, and force change in the voting process.

Whether it be legitimately, or conspiratively, I think at least Biggio gets in this year..

i don't think it's a conspiracy but I agree there is clearly a tendency to relax standards with a weak field. I think Biggio's 3000 hits get him in, first ballot.

[Iron Horse]

If Bonds and Clemens get in then you need to get Pete Rose, and Shoeless in there since what they did in my opinion is no where as damaging then what Bonds, Clemens...did to the game. It's one thing to go from hitting a home run once every 17 at bats to one every 7 at bats and looking like did. As someone said last night on the MLB network, PED's are the nuclear weapons of all the drugs ever used in baseball.
I think Aaron's record along with Marris should still be the records that count.
Happy collecting