Hall of Fame
Nobody was elected to the Hall of Fame yesterday. It wasn’t that surprising based on Repoz’s collection of the ballots published online, but still frustrating.
The New York Times covered the front page of the sports with this instant classic.
It will only be more difficult to get into the Hall of Fame now that so many qualified players remain on the ballot.
McCovey Chronicles offers us their big, important opinions.
Long rant short: Keeping steroid users out is an exercise in ignoring context. It makes the Hall of Fame a museum without context. That’s like a movie without images, a smore without graham crackers, or a copy of Snow’s Greatest Hits without “Informer.” Or, for that matter, a DVD of Snow’s greatest hits without Game 2 of the 2000 NLDS. What’s the point? What is this whole thing for? Shouldn’t you just stop and call it something else?
The only way to argue otherwise is to see the Hall of Fame as nothing but some sort of reward for the players. If that’s the point of the Hall of Fame, maybe we need a separate museum that tells about baseball’s history instead. I’d rather go to that one.
Charles P. Pierce gave us yesterday’s midday diversion.
Hurrah, sports fans, it’s National Self-Righteousness Day! Somehow, America’s baseball writers have managed to decide which of our retired ballplayers are moral enough deserve to be placed in honored glory in a museum next to wife-beaters, racists, drunkards, whoremongers, segregationists, and murderers.
Jonah Keri writes about the fallacy of the Hall of Fame. I’d quote something, but it’s too fantastic to skip over any of it. Go read it. Now.
Dumbest Question Ever?
I doubt it’s the dumbest question ever, but it certainly is a dumb one.
Yes.
This question, “How much do you blame Jay Cutler for RG III’s injury,” is so utterly useless it is causing me to physically lose brain cells by the second just contemplating how anyone could put those words together in that order and display it on national television.
I don’t really care about the Bears or professional football for that matter, but yes, that is a ridiculously dumb question. Probably not as dumb as this one: is there anyone, anyone at all, on the 2013 MLB Hall of Fame ballot that deserves to be in Cooperstown right now?
No, that question is even dumber than the Cutler one because the answer is far more obvious.
OV Forums
Bubbles started some Breaking Bad discussion for us. How will Walt die? Will Jesse die along with him? Will he find out about Walt’s involvement in the death of Jane and the poisoning of Brock? Who knows?
Would you like to talk about offensive sports mascots? The trillion dollar coin? Season 3 of Justified? The new season of Justified?
This is a Cubs blog
Unfortunately, there is no Cubs news worthy of discussing that I’m aware of.
Yes, that is the dumbest question ever. The question should be “Do all you ignorant fuckwads want to apologize to Jay Cutler now?”
Fucking terrible spoiler alert for breaking bad.
@ bubblesdachimp:
What I wrote? I assume anyone reading this has seen through at least season 4. I didn’t share anything from the last half season, did I?
Does the spoiler tag still work?
SPOILER
Walt makes meth.
@ WaLi:
We got rid of that plugin since RC was the only one who used it.
hahahaha I got yelled at on another board for talking about the wire in loose terms the other day. I was just fucking around.
@ bubblesdachimp:
Ok. I was worried I said something, but didn’t think I did. I figured if people hadn’t watched season 4 yet then they probably didn’t care because they hadn’t seen any of it.
@ dmick89:
Just trying not to be wasteful.
And why would anyone get upset about spoilers for The Wire? That’s like being upset if someone gives spoilers for old Kojak episodes.
@ dmick89:
i spoilered what happened to omar… (dying laughing)
I didn’t have HBO when The Wire was around and I’ve been catching up on it on HBO Go since switching cable providers. Portlandia totally fucked me on Omar last week, but as a reasonable person I don’t expect spoiler warnings for 5 year old shows…
Wash dies in Serenity.
Santos wins in West Wing. Oh, and Bartlet has MS and lies about it.
26.2cubfan wrote:
Leo dies.
Rosebud was a sled
(dying laughing) @ Aisley trolling a Facebook group
Cain kills Abel. Maybe SK can give an eyewitness account.
Mr. F isn’t a person. It stands for Mentally Retarded Female.
There’s always money in the banana stand.
@ dmick89:
I actually just started Breaking Bad on Netflix, and just started Season 2. I’m also well aware that it’s been around for years, and don’t expect the world to keep their mouth shut about what happened on a TV show 4 years ago.
Rice Cube wrote:
That group, I believe, is being ironic. Based on the members so far, I don’t believe they actually think “Epstink is terrible.” I think they are mocking the Rant Sports brosephs.
Sweet Jesus…
http://deadspin.com/5974860/sammy-sosa-has-the-best-pinterest-page-ever
The Wizard of Oz was just some old guy with a hot air balloon and a few gadgets.
Fukudome ————-> Saving Face
@ Mercurial Outfielder:
That’s already been mentioned here, and therefore is too old to count as a spoiler.
@ Rizzo the Rat:
I can longer read every word. I’ll let the wife know dinner is suspended.
New shit: http://www.obstructedview.net/commentary-and-analysis/sammy-sosas-pinterest-page-is-exactly-what-youd-expect-sammy-sosas-pinterest-page-to-be.html
@ mikeakaleroy:
I don’t think I spoiled anything of real significance. I’ll try not to say anything about past seasons on the blog from this point forward.