Ripken and Gwynn only Hall of Famers this year

Stirring up the pot, obviously, but who, really made a bigger difference over the course of his career: Tony Gwynn? Or Goose Gossage?

 

I remember a Steve Garvey bumpersticker back in the day of his paternity suits...

"Steve Garvey is not my Padre..."

 

TOMMY FREAKIN' JOHN, PEOPLE! Where's the love?

 

If it's not Buhner, it will be Steve Buechele or Andy McGaffigan or some scrub of that variety. It's always going to be someone who has no right being listed with the other.

And Buhner -- talk about someone who fit the roided-up profile. Square-headed lug, premature hair loss, newfound wellspring of power. Uh, yeah.

 

Are votes for guys like Buhner and Bichette stupid? Yes.
But you can put as many as 10 names on the ballot so if some clown wants to vote for his pal Dante or his buddy Jay as his 9th or 10 selection, so what. It has NO effect on who gets in or not.

And as for all this bullshit about taking peoples' votes away...who would be the judge of what constitues an offense that leads to having your vote taken away?
Anyone who disagrees with some of you morons should have their voting privilege revoked.
Fuck that shit.
Who made you motherfuckers the arbiters of the Hall of Fame?

 

Well-stirred.
But Gwynn is a seamhead pet, so...

 

I'd say Gossage was more dominant... I remember in the early 80s, he was the best closer in the game... As great as Gwynn was, he was never the best at his position...

Bottomline, both should be in Cooperstown.

 

I don't think you're going to get many here who don't think Gossage belongs in the Hall, as does Gwynn. How Gossage is still out is baffling.

 

Ladies and gentlemen, the role of Spnited will be played today by Alec Baldwin.

 

Will he go to lunch?

 

Playing in Denver obviously favorably skewed Bichette's stats (as playing in the Polo Grounds favorably skewed every New York Giant star), but from 1993-99 he averaged 28 homers and 118 RBI, with a best of .984 combined slugging/on-base percentage in 1995 and a worst of .853 in 1997.

Not HOF numbers, but he's a solid Hall of Pretty Good candidate. Plus he was fun to watch.

 

Coffee is for closers