Everybody talks about wins and Cy Youngs, but you have to take Mussina’s career in context: He pitched in “murderer’s row”, the AL east of the 1980s. He was in the toughest division and matched up against other team’s aces time and again. Had he played somewhere else the bulk of his career, he’d easily be over 300…

The Manny Machado Sweepstakes*

Halladay was one of my favorite players and he was truly a dominant ace of aces for a good 6-7 years. But he really fell off a cliff at the end of his career and I think he’s a borderline case at best. Certainly not a 93% first-balloter.

1) Halladay was more dominant in his era — 2x CY Young, 8x AS vs. 5x for Mussina, a couple top-10 MVP finishes.

Tell your old man to drag Bruce Lee around the Game of Death...

You have him mistaken with someone else. He’s an airline pilot. 

What idiot called it an unreliable supercomputer and not That Shit Cray

shit yeah! Here’s some other things they should bring back:

Old guy says players don’t have the same fundamentals as they used to...story at 11!

*Aaron Hernandez convicted of murder*

don’t forget this classic:

Noah, Joakim: DNP (Too high to jump)

It’s something one would think they’d have called out in weigh-ins then, not just before the match starts. I wrestled in PA (not sure how it works in NJ, of course, but I’d assume it’s similar), but refs gave quick checks of our torsos for rashes, checked fingernails for length, etc. I’m surprised it wasn’t called out…

No that is not true (and I suspect you know it).

My man, I’m a Yankees fan who was a few weeks short of my 16th birthday when they won it all in 1996. I am well versed in the legend of Mo Rivera. I’ve witnessed his work in all phases of his career. His ERA+ is godlike. His work in the playoffs is beyond reproach, and in a position with tremendous flucuation he was…

The “never give anyone 100% of the vote” thing is soooooooo baffling to me. I get the game theory aspect (“Greg Maddux is obviously getting in, so I should vote for fringe candidates instead”), but is there anyone who doesn’t think Greg Maddux, Ken Griffey or Randy Johnson isn’t a no-doubt-about-it Hall of Famer?

Griffey gave that asshole—whoever he may be this time—the excuse to not vote for Mo. And throw in a little “He was just a reliever!” for extra spice.

This year, especially. I can understand (to a degree) the logic some people used that “Player X is a shoo-in, he doesn’t need my vote, I think Player Y is deserving but may not get in without my help”. But there is no fringe candidate that can’t get in this year, with such an uncrowded field. 

I 99.9% agree with you.

Correct. I fucking hate the Yankees, but anyone that doesn’t think that Mariano Rivera is a first-ballot HOF-er is outside of their damn mind.