Tell him, Wash.
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It’s incredibly hard
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TWSS
Godspeed, Billy. Hope it’s your time.
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Warner is at 85% on publicly available ballots and seems almost certain to make it.
Beltran is at 81% and will be a very close call.
Wagner should make it. He missed it by 5 votes last year.
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You’d think he’d go in as an Astro, right?
Certainly.
The schools are better if he goes in for the Rockies.
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Billy made it. Beltran didn’t.
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With Billy and CC getting into the hall today, it is a reminder that size doesn’t matter as long as you are left handed.
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Ichiro a single vote shy of unanimous
Amazing but there were guys that didn’t vote for Willie Mays and Hank Aaron.
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They’re all fuckwits, every single one of them.
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Baseball Hall of Fame voters have this weird obsession with not allowing someone be a unanimous first ballot selection. Only Mariano Rivera broke that trend.
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Ichiro deserved to be unanimous first ballet. I think more so than Rivera to be honest. Just MHO.
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Rivera is a borderline HOFer to me. But I’m not one who thinks “closer” is a position.
It’s a career path, invented (identified) in the latter years, the’60’s. Roy Face comes to mind as the former day stud reliever/closer. There had to be guys that did the job in the ‘’20 thru ‘50’s”, I just can’t necessarily identify them.
Face was not a closer in the sense of how that role is used today. He pitched multiple innings in many games. You are correct, though (IMO), in suggesting he was one of the first stud relievers to be used exclusively in that role. He also is the sole reason I became an every day “Pirates are my team” fan when the damn Dodgers jilted Brooklyn and me by moving to LA.
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Hoyt Wilhelm is who I remember filling a similar role.
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