A bunch of guys: Hall of Fame?

Buster Olney writes the best column ever today!

http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/blog/_/name/olney_buster/id/8351132/evaluating-hall-fame-candidacies-active-players-mlb

It's behind the paywall, so I'm not sure what the protocol is for posting highlights?

Essentially, he breaks players into categories:

LOCKS
A-Rod (depending on PED's)
Jeter
Rivera
Chipper
Thome
Vizquel
Pujols
Cabrera
Halladay

PROBABLY
Rolen

MAYBE
Big Papi
Johan Santana
Helton
Beltran!
Andruw Jones
Adrian Beltre
Utley

GETTING CLOSE
Konerko
Sabathia
Hudson

PROBABLY NOT, BUT GETTING CLOSER
Hunter
Rollins

 

Buster Olney: Hall of Fame?

 

Tebow.

 

After Dawson and Rice, it's tough to argue with that statement.

The thing is, I can support a big tent HOF, in principle. But the guys who are in and the guys who are out seem odd to me. Dawson and Rice but now Evans, Allen, or Belle? Odd.

 

Until that post, I had forgotten that today begins 17 weeks of us fighting again. It's unfortunate. We've been so amicable!

 

Nah, you'll come around. All will repent and be followers by Week 6.

As for the HOF, that is just something I can't say I understand the multiyear hand-wringing. However, when Jack Morris is elected in January it's going to be one of the greatest days ever on the Internet.

 

Let's follow Time's example and put "you" in the Hall of Fame

 

Where does Ichiro fit in? I think he is a lock. Cano should be in the "Getting Closer" group.

Interesting that he left Mauer off the list. His star has dimmed quite a bit in the last couple years.

 

I thought the Dawg Pound in Cleveland was up for consideration.

 

This isn't new. I'm looking right at you, Ray Schalk.

Heck, "Really Good" would be an improvement over some of those early Veterans Committee inductees.

 

It's been the Hall of Really Good ever since 1939.

If anyone has the idea that the Hall "used to have standards", they're completely ignoring the entire history of the HOF.