Baseball HOF: Who makes it in addition to Ripken and Gwynn?

I hope Goose Gossage gets in, but I think he's going to fall just short before getting in next year.

Will be very interesting to see if the McGwire backlash helps out Jim Rice.

Jack Morris and Bert Blyleven won't get in. Still wrong.

 

AP moved some career stats agate tonight -- Gwynn and Ripkin. Nobody else. Interesting, no?

 

Only Ripken and Gwynn make, although I agree with you on Goose.

 

Yes and no. They're iron-clad locks, so you may as well move the stats.

But don't read too much into no other stats being moved. Gary Carter was told in 2002 to wait by the phone on the second Tuesday of January. The call never came (well, not til the second Tuesday of January 2003).

 

No one else, because everyone wants the focus to be on Ripken and Gwynn and next year the best first-year candidate is Tim Raines before Rickey Henderson hits the ballot in 2009. So in a great manuevering fashion, Gossage and/or Rice get held until next year, when there is no clear-cut first timer.

But if someone does sneak through, it's Gossage.

 

Will either player break Seaver's plurality? (98.4 pct, I think)

 

I hope when Gossage gets in, somebody unearths a tape of his "fat man" tirades of the early 80s.
Goose had some of the funniest rants I've ever heard.

 

I'm betting no. But I think both break 95 percent.

 

Probably both between 96 and97%

 

His autobiography was quite entertaining.

Fun fact: Goose is the only player whose career spanned every baseball work stoppage.

 

Morris, yeah, he should be in. But not Blyleven.