The Ghost of Bob Starr

Yep nj. All those who celebrated Arod's suspension can now lament that it landed the Yanks Tanaka.

He did steal 50 bases one year in the minors...so...not impossible.

Thanks A-rod

DR, some of your best Shenanigans are the somber ones.   I say that in the most respectful way.  I feel extremely fortunate to catch a glimpse of your thoughts.   You're strangely like an older brother/best friend passing along this wisdom that a non-existent brother, or friends could ever muster up.    You have incredible perspective.    You don't even know me, yet I imagine you'd be able to deliver the most apropos euology of me, just based on the way you perceive things.   Thank you for always bringing such rich textures to typically ordinary things.
 
I am sorry for your loss, but you always manage to find that silver lining.   Thank you, and my condolences. 

DR, some of your best Shenanigans are the somber ones.   I say that in the most respectful way.  I feel extremely fortunate to catch a glimpse of your thoughts.   You're strangely like an older brother/best friend passing along this wisdom that a non-existent brother, or friends could ever muster up.    You have incredible perspective.    You don't even know me, yet I imagine you'd be able to deliver the most apropos euology of me, just based on the way you perceive things.   Thank you for always bringing such rich textures to typically ordinary things.
 
I am sorry for your loss, but you always manage to find that silver lining.   Thank you, and my condolences. 

Thanks DR, I hope your writing is as cathartic for you writing it as it is for me reading it.

I am of the belief that Boston Fans will love Ortiz regardless of whether or not he took PEDs. Not that I could blame them. For the most part we hate these cheaters because they are also bad guys. I don't hear people saying how much they hate Andy Petite or Wally Joyner, but we do all hate Bonds and Clemens. Guess what? We hated them before they were on roids, because they were dicks.

God dammit I hate Boston so f**king much someone please kill me

Which is it?  First, ARod tells WFAN that he didn't do anything with Bosch but now his people are going the Canseco route (I did it but so did a lot of others)....have to make your mind up, can't have it both ways....

A-Rod's lawyer says some tied to PEDs are 'god-like in Boston' 
Going the Canseco route.  I like.  hahaha.  I'm easily entertained.

Baseball suspends Arod, which was the right thing to do, and we are going with the angle that this was baseball trying to help the Yankees?

No positive test, first offense. Where is the union on this. If he wasn't so unPopular this never happens.

I applaud Dan Le Batard.

I applaud Dan Le Batard.

Baseball Writers To Baseball Fans: **** You
 
When we started in on our project of making a farce and mockery of baseball's annual Hall of Fame election by buying a vote from a veteran baseball writer and then turning it over to the public, we had two principal aims. One was to draw attention to the way an increasingly ridiculous election process has diminished the Hall of Fame's ability to honor great ballplayers; the other was to turn a small but symbolically resonant amount of power over to the public.
 
As we figured they would, the veteran baseball writers whose process we were criticizing generally played to type in their responses to our stunt. Rather than addressing the substance of the critique, they chastised us for seeking attention—as if there's something wrong with wanting to bring attention to a point you'd like to make—and complained about the whole thing not being right, because QED. It was classic smarm, with a lot of ad hominem grouching about how we're not a respectable shop for reasons no one really bothered to spell out and very little explanation of what either we or Dan Le Batard, the voter who gave us his ballot, had actually done wrong.
 
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However, it is interesting to note that the AngelWin vote produced the same results as the baseball writers with a vote.  Does this mean we're dinosaurs, and everyone will be the better for it when we "die off."
 
I'm not sure the problem lies with those voting, but the system for determining the inductees.

Not sure if you were just joking, but Jimmy Wynn is not in the HOF.  In fact, he didn't get a single vote during the only year he was on the ballot.

You ever catch Chris Spielman doing color on NCAA football? I don't know if he's that bad, but every time they show him on screen it looks like he's trying to find the solution to the equation on the wall in Good Will Hunting. 

I think what he meant was he wanted another pitcher... of spaghetti sauce.

-He wants pitching (Tanaka was mentioned I think)
 
-He's buddies with Dipoto no problems
 
-A whole lot of nothing

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I listened to the interview with Gurnick.   Clearly he's very conflicted.   I have always maintained in my argument about the HOF, that it full of liars, cheaters, murders, and so on...
 
Now it's good to see some of these writers acknowledging that you can't have a huge void in the HOF that covers 20 years, and misses out on the guy with the most Cy Youngs, or the dude who hit the most bombs.  
 
Gurnick should have abstained this year, but wanted to help Morris along.  
 
It's tough to wipe out a 20+ year period off a ballot.   He won't vote again.   It's too bad..   He's not the villain people make him out to be.   But he didn't handle it well.

I listened to the interview with Gurnick.   Clearly he's very conflicted.   I have always maintained in my argument about the HOF, that it full of liars, cheaters, murders, and so on...
 
Now it's good to see some of these writers acknowledging that you can't have a huge void in the HOF that covers 20 years, and misses out on the guy with the most Cy Youngs, or the dude who hit the most bombs.  
 
Gurnick should have abstained this year, but wanted to help Morris along.  
 
It's tough to wipe out a 20+ year period off a ballot.   He won't vote again.   It's too bad..   He's not the villain people make him out to be.   But he didn't handle it well.

Bruce, when did AO start posting with your account?