2015 HOF thread

[AdamGreenwood]

If the Expos were still around, they could have had Martinez and Johnson at the same time.

 

Trivia (no googling).

 

1) What player did the Expos trade to get Pedro Martinez?

2) What player did the Expos obtain when they traded away Randy Johnson?

[TheHurl]

[KingKat]

In football you can beat your wife, abuse your kids, take PED's, etc, and still be celebrated. In baseball, if you take PED's, you're the scum of the earth.

 

I don't know about that... Seems to me like the wife beaters and kid abusers are facing massive backlashes. You can definitely get caught with PEDS withoug much controvery though. Baseball, on the other hand, seems to have it basically backwards. PED are a huge deal and pretty much anything else, other than gambling, is mostly ignored.

[KingKat]

If the Expos were still around, they could have had Martinez and Johnson at the same time.

 

Trivia (no googling).

 

1) What player did the Expos trade to get Pedro Martinez?

2) What player did the Expos obtain when they traded away Randy Johnson?

 

1. Desheilds the first

2. Mark Langston

[KingKat]

If the Expos were still around, they could have had Martinez and Johnson at the same time.

 

Trivia (no googling).

 

1) What player did the Expos trade to get Pedro Martinez?

2) What player did the Expos obtain when they traded away Randy Johnson?

 

Now your turn... Which player did the Expos get back for Pedro as as straight up return from Boston?

[TheHurl]

If the Expos were still around, they could have had Martinez and Johnson at the same time.

 

Trivia (no googling).

 

1) What player did the Expos trade to get Pedro Martinez?

2) What player did the Expos obtain when they traded away Randy Johnson?

 

Delino and Langston.

[AdamGreenwood]

Either you cheated or you're really, really old. Like over 30.

[TheHurl]

Now your turn... Which player did the Expos get back for Pedro as as straight up return from Boston?

 

Pavano and Armas Jr. Love my Expos trivia

[TheHurl]

Either you cheated or you're really, really old. Like over 30.

 

old and traveled to Montreal for at least 3 series a year.

[KingKat]

Pavano and Armas Jr. Love my Expos trivia

 

s***, I forgot about Armas Jr. I could have sworn it was Pavano straight up. Reportedly, the Blue Jays turned down a Halladay for Pedro swap. Now that might have drastically altered the course of history.

[HERPDERP]

In football you can beat your wife, abuse your kids, take PED's, etc, and still be celebrated. In baseball, if you take PED's, you're the scum of the earth.

 

bitch plssss

 

The HOF isn't a good guy award.

[Guest]

#freebarry

[TheHurl]

The good news is that there is only one legit name on the ballot next year (Griffey Jr., who is followed by a bunch of all star not MVP types and some relievers). This should get the momentum on Raines, Bagwell, Piazza & Schilling going. Hopefully 3 get in to clear up some of the backlog. Then we can hope for about 20% of the old f***s like Noble die off and eventually the process clears up.

[Spanky99]

 

lol

[AdamGreenwood]

I'd f*** her too.

 

I'm sure she'd find that quite flattering.

[Spanky99]

I'm sure she'd find that quite flattering.

 

lol

[thatoneguy]

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130725140157/codfanfic/images/3/30/Burn.gif

[Brownie19]

Player Votes 2015% 2014%

Randy Johnson 534 97.3% 1st Year

Pedro Martinez 500 91.1% 1st Year

John Smoltz 455 82.9% 1st Year

Craig Biggio 454 82.7% 74.8%

Less than 75% of vote, but still on ballot.

Mike Piazza 384 69.9% 62.2%

Jeff Bagwell 306 55.7% 54.3%

Tim Raines 302 55.0% 46.1%

Curt Schilling 215 39.2% 29.2%

Roger Clemens 206 37.5% 35.4%

Barry Bonds 202 36.8% 34.7%

Lee Smith 166 30.2% 29.9%

Edgar Martinez 148 27.0% 25.2%

Alan Trammell 138 25.1% 20.8%

Mike Mussina 135 24.6% 20.3%

Jeff Kent 77 14.0% 15.2%

Fred McGriff 71 12.9% 11.7%

Larry Walker 65 11.8% 10.2%

Gary Sheffield 64 11.7% 1st Year

Mark McGwire 55 10.0% 11.0%

Sammy Sosa 36 6.6% 7.2%

Nomar Garciaparra 30 5.5% 1st Year

15 yrs on ballot, will not be on next year's ballot

Don Mattingly 50 9.1% 8.2%

Less than 5%, will not be on next year's ballot

Carlos Delgado 21 3.8% 1st Year

Troy Percival 4 0.7% 1st Year

Aaron Boone 2 0.4% 1st Year

Tom Gordon 2 0.4% 1st Year

Darin Erstad 1 0.2% 1st Year

Brian Giles 0 0.0% 1st Year

Jason Schmidt 0 0.0% 1st Year

Cliff Floyd 0 0.0% 1st Year

Jermaine Dye 0 0.0% 1st Year

Rich Aurilia 0 0.0% 1st Year

Tony Clark 0 0.0% 1st Year

Eddie Guardado 0 0.0% 1st Year

 

 

Seriously - can they not find out who voted for Percival, Boone, Gordon and Erstad and simply revoke their right to vote? You can't have people making a mockery out of the process.

[Spanky99]

Seriously - can they not find out who voted for Percival, Boone, Gordon and Erstad and simply revoke their right to vote? You can't have people making a mockery out of the process.

 

I think that's their point, sad man.

[burlingtonbandit]

Seriously - can they not find out who voted for Percival, Boone, Gordon and Erstad and simply revoke their right to vote? You can't have people making a mockery out of the process.

 

Probably the same people who didn't vote Pedro and Randy lol

[burlingtonbandit]

It's more of a travesty that Pete Rose is not in. He didn't cheat when he played. He deserves to be in based on performance. That MLB would deny him HOF consideration is petty and vindictive. There are more reasonable ways to apply a disincentive to players/coaches betting on the games.

 

Interesting talk about this on PTS with Davidi and Eliott. Davidi thinks that one of the big reasons is that Rose wants to be a HOF because he will use to for financial gain for memorabilia and stuff.

 

I don't think he should be in personally. For you to manipulate games is the worst thing you can do as a guy in baseball.

[Jimcanuck]

Davidi thinks that one of the big reasons is that Rose wants to be a HOF because he will use to for financial gain for memorabilia and stuff.

 

How, exactly?

 

Wouldn't make a difference IMO

[Spanky99]

Interesting talk about this on PTS with Davidi and Eliott. Davidi thinks that one of the big reasons is that Rose wants to be a HOF because he will use to for financial gain for memorabilia and stuff.

 

I don't think he should be in personally. For you to manipulate games is the worst thing you can do as a guy in baseball.

 

He didn't manipulate games? He bet on his club, very different. He deserves to be in, but I get a chuckle when guys, mostly older than me think he's in conversation of GOAT! That's a f***ing joke, he played hard with longevity, but should never be in that discussion .

[John_Havok]

Bonds, clemens, johnson, biggio, piazza, smoltz, Bagwell, raines, walker, Pedro, mussina, schilling, martinez, trammell.

 

10 votes max is stupid, outdated and blatantly retarded. I refuse to abide by their idiotic rules

 

I'd also beat the s*** out of the comissioner, reinstate Rose, then make the veterans committed induct him and McGwire.

 

Then if any old idiot HOF members boycott the induction ceremony, i'd tell them to shut the f*** up an deal with it. They cheated too.

[Spanky99]

Bonds, clemens, johnson, biggio, piazza, smoltz, Bagwell, raines, walker, Pedro, mussina, schilling, martinez, trammell.

 

10 votes max is stupid, outdated and blatantly retarded. I refuse to abide by their idiotic rules

 

I'd also beat the s*** out of the comissioner, reinstate Rose, then make the veterans committed induct him and McGwire.

 

lol

[John_Havok]

And let me clarify, I thought McGwire had fallen off already. He's on my list.

[LongTimeReader]

f***ing Sandra Bullock and HOF discussion.... finally a worthy thread

[spats]

It's a great venue for a baseball fan besides the HOF itself and the park. Beautiful little town with vendors and former HOFamers signing on the main street(Had a picture taken with Alomar on the street). They also have a parade with all the elected members who are present sitting in a car with their name on it....probably about 20 the year I was there...only Barry Larkin and Ron Santo along with Bob Elliot were elected on a down year.

Anybody ever been to an Induction ceremony?

 

I'm heading down this year and was wondering what it was like and if there's any other special/cool things they do during the weekend.

[spats]

It's ridiculous that Bonds, the greatest hitter of our generation and maybe of all time might not get in. These writers need to get their heads out of their ass.

[Spanky99]

f***ing Sandra Bullock and HOF discussion.... finally a worthy thread

 

lol