Which I am not upset about at all.

Wait, what’s wrong with the guy who is literally the best at his position ever being the one to break the streak?

Except for Frank Thomas.

Naw, Ortiz is a cheater.

Thanks.  I seriously think of him as a Red, and I know that’s my issue.

Let’s start this petition right damn now.

Damn, his going in makes me happy.  The first Mariner, right?

Bummer for Berkman; not that I thought he should go in but I liked him as a player and wanted a little better of a showing for him.

Great players who weren’t filthy cheaters are elected.  Huzzah!  

Sure, sure. And overall, his hitting combined with his middling defensive stats make him a pretty good player. (There is no measure by which he is “one of the most valuable shortstops ever.”)

So he was not a good shortstop.  His hitting skills have nothing to do with his defensive position.

When you start digging into actual defensive stats, he’s middle of the pack, at best.  https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-other-half-of-the-story-about-derek-jeters-defense/

It does not.

I would guess Dan told the AD, who also hates Saban and didn’t tell him either just to fuck with him.

“That the entire federal government has put millions of people’s livelihoods in jeopardy”

This is incorrect; only two people have, Donald Trump, for refusing to back down on a wall that is useless and that almost no one wants, and Mitch McConnell, for refusing to allow a vote on various spending bills because he…

Hi, if you’re supporting a racist President like Trump, who is a racist president, you’re being racist.  That was easy.

Well sure, you just leave them off.

And if he had been a DH, I’d completely agree with you. However, he was also out there on the field as a straight-up terrible defensive player and that makes him in the Hall of Very Good for me.

Thankfully, I think McGriff is a prime example of someone where a later committee will fix the writer’s weird lack of support for him.

Ugh. Next year is kind of a Hall of Very Good for first-timers too, so people who feel obligated to vote for someone might put in Bonds rather than simply not voting. Sort the 2020 potential ballot by YOB and it’s a list of...fine, I guess. (Like, I like Paul Konerko a lot but he’s not someone I automatically think of…