baseball hall of fame inductions

Pot, meet kettle.

 

I know I have posted this before, but what hurt Rice most with voters (a significant percentage of whom are too young to have covered him) is the way he fell off the table at the end of his career. In 1986, he was still a reasonable MVP candidate. By midseason 1988, he was getting benched. This left him short of some valued career numbers marks.
That's not the way I look at HoF candidates. But it is how a number of voters do, and the rules make such a bloc very powerful If we needed 75 percent of the vote to elect a President, we wouldn't have had one since James Monroe.

 

If you watched baseball in the late '70's and early '80's you know that Jim Rice is a no-brainer as a Hall of Famer.

 

Kubek looks like he's having so much fun. What a shame he's not still involved in baseball.

 

Kubek and Garagiola introduced me to Major League Baseball

 

Kubek mentioned being in the booth for Aaron's record home run.

Milo Hamilton on the radio call is obviously the (vastly) more famous call.

Does anyone know if it's possible to find/see/hear the NBC call?

I just tried a quick search on YouTube and couldn't find it?

I always find the less famous calls of famous home runs to be interesting & would also be interested in finding some more of them.

 

Hey Rickey, who da hell is Luke Gehrig and Bave Ruff?

 

Tony Kubek was the colour guy for Jays games from '77 to '89 and in my opinion, is still one of the best ever. And now we get stuck with those rotating clowns on Sportsnet.

He was insightful, professional, concise and never afraid to call a spade a fucking shovel. I

He was also my favourite ball player growing up.

 

There was a story somewhere a while back saying Kubek doesn't watch or follow baseball at all. It wasn't that he's bitter or angry about it, he's just moved on to other things that occupy his time and he doesn't even pay attention to baseball.

 

Not for long!

Where da card game?

 

Interesting that he had a line today saying "For some reason, baseball has captured America's imagination"... a quote along those lines

 

I read that too. The '94 strike -- and probably working for Steinbrenner (MSG Network actually) -- was apparently the last straw.

I wonder if today will change anything.

He just really seemed to be enjoying himself. Happy to be around old teammates. His family was there and his love of baseball was obvious.