He’s known as “fuck that motherfucker” around mine.
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An embarrassment to baseball.
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I can’t see Rose ever getting more than a small handful of votes if that.
Wait until Trump doxes the voters and tells his incel army to attack.
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Pete and Joe will get in. Eddie wont. I refer to Manfred as Selig’s Turd.
Baseball died today. Pete Rose and Manfred killed it.
I don’t know why you guys are so negative. I’m excited that I’ll finally get a chancer to see Shoeless Joe play.
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I didn’t know you were losing down your cornfield
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Just to be clear, BBWA will not be voting on this; the ERAs committee, made up of 16 people, will. Pete will need 12 votes to get in. And the voters will absolutely get pressured to vote for Pete
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I looked this up - Rose’s last 884 hits were in his last 7 seasons, when he averaged -0.2 WAR per season.
His WAR per 162 games is in the bottom 20% of all HOF batters.
Even with setting his disgraces aside, he’s above the line as a HOF selection, but not by far.
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I saw him play before the trouble. Coached him in HS, in fact. He wore shoes then so he was just Joe.
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His hit total will get him in easily, I think.
That’s my guess, too.
That’s really all he has that you can’t argue against.
Very pleased to see that the Reds lost - to the friggin White Sox - on the day they honored Rose.
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I watched or listened to most of the Twins/Orioles doubleheader yesterday. It was interesting, as not particularly a fan of either team, because the Twins are red hot and the Orioles obviously are not, yet both games were decidedly winnable for Baltimore. In the first game the Twins committed four errors and triumphed largely on the strength of a two-out, three-run bomb from backup catcher Christian Vazquez. In the second the Orioles finally got the huge hit they’d been waiting all year for (a Cedric Mullins grand slam anchoring a six-run inning) but couldn’t stifle the Minnesota offense, again folding under the pressure of a two-out, three-run bomb–this time from Kody Clemens, of all people.
It was an excellent reminder of how hard it is to win when you’re losing and how hard it is to lose when you’re winning. I hope we get to see one of those winning streaks at some point.
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When I was a kid…On May 15th 1969 the Amazing Mets were 15-18 and would go on to lose all 3 road games to the Astros later that month eventually dropping to 18-23 before going on an 11 game winning streak.
Trying to keep the faith, it’s a long season.
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The O’s are interesting to me. The latest in a series of teams that have tried to replicate the Astros formula for rebuild leading to sustained excellence, replete with hiring former Astros staff as a way to infuse the process into their orgs. I have not seen a single sustained success story yet. I had a friend that is a longtime Dodgers fan try to tell me they are the only other org to successfully pull it off but I had to push back with $333M is not $218M. They are not using the same sustainment methodology.
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