I should have been clearer. I mean are there any members of the 500 club who haven't gotten into the HoF in the past? Players who were eligible and didn't get in for whatever reason?

Are there ANY members of the 500 home run club that aren't in the HoF? I really don't know, I'm not being argumentative...

My brother and I have watched it many times together and have often wondered if the film is about a guy who follows his hat around - and what his hat might represent, if anything. They reference hats throughout, Caspar feeling so insulted by 'the high hat', etc.

I can't agree with this more. It is SO well crafted - the dialogue is fantastic; it is shot so beautifully and memorably (the shot of John Turturro on his knees begging for his life in front of Gabriel Byrne is unforgettable); and everyone's performance is as good as they've ever given in any other film. If it can…

I agree that it's a tough sell, but in 2002 the US convincingly beat Portugal - with Luis Figo. We're a better side now, and so is Ghana - I think the US getting 3 from Ghana is less likely than Ghana beating Portugal. But it definitely could work that way, it's the only scenario that can get us out of the group. …

And he should be (I'll listen to all of the angry replies off the air). So should almost everyone else under HoF consideration accused of/already proven to have taken steroids.

Perhaps, but this point is unfairly specific about Gumbel:

How do you know the construction of the NSA surveillance apparatus has gone well? Is it because there has been a quantifiable decrease in your free will quotient? I'm still not seeing any evidence from your argument that reasonable demonstrates our government's endgame is to turn us into flag-waving automatons, bent…

I don't know how one quantifies 'creeped out' statistically, but I dare to disagree with your assumption that most people who live here agree with you.

Are you one of those people who thinks that everyone who disagrees with you must be 'naive'? As if you are somehow more aware of a 'reality' that we have been unwilling or unable to perceive?

Your citation of 404 (b) doesn't work, unless you're going for subsection (2), which is a stretch. Here's (1):

None of that will be admissible, nor is it relevant to whether Lien committed a crime. If Mieses was a serial killer, it wouldn't be admissible or relevant either even if he was on his way home from the site of his latest murder.

-Lancia Stratos

Oh. So the subject is 'current/active players who have cheated and why we should wring our hands if they don't get the disproportionate and unprecedented punishments MLB wants' and not 'the fairness of player discipline - why A-Rod's punishment does/does not make sense.' My bad.

I see. So you just want to talk about current players. Convenient.

Agreed on all, pretty much. Especially the reference to the Don Mattingly years - my favorite Yankee of all time. Christ, was he on some bad and overpaid teams. The last place campaign of 1991 comes to mind.

No, that's not what that is. I asked you whether you'd apply the same 'Field of Dreams' baseball ideal (a bullshit, MLB-created/jingoistic/manipulative ideal) you so freely apply in A-Rod's case to other cheaters in MLB history... Admitted cheaters who have become part of this same nonsense mythology (in spite of…

This season is THE SECOND TIME THEY'VE MISSED THE PLAYOFFS IN 19 YEARS. No other team in any other sport can claim a record like that over the last 19 years, or really any 19 year span ever (before you pull some fucked up arcane European sports record up as the basis for your counter here, please understand this…

Even if the Yankees are guilty of overpaying the staff, at least they aren't as guilty of what the Red Sox/Dodgers/Mets/Rangers etc are - overpaying the staff and not winning as often.

Would your wishes include banning Gaylord Perry for doctoring all of his pitches? How about everyone who used amphetamines throughout the 60s/70s/80s, many of whom are now in the Hall of Fame? The idyllic baseball world where no one tries to get a leg up (whether against the rules of baseball or against the law) is…