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OT: MLB Thread

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McGwire has gotten so few votes, I wouldn't be so sure about Bonds or Clemens ever getting in.

I think they should all be in though.
 
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A-Rod to have hip surgery in "mid-January". This will keep him sidelined for 3-6 months. Why not have it immediately?
 
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Is it still "alleged" when you admit to it?

LOL Yeah as I recall Rose was very slow to admit to anything. First it was:

"I never gambled"

Then:

"Well okay I gambled, just not on sports"

Followed by:

"I gambled on sports but not on baseball"

Which led to:

"I may have gambled on baseball, but never on the Reds"

And finally to:

"I gambled on the Reds but only for them to win"

Riiiiiight. Sure ya did, Pete.
 
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Jerry Crasnick ‏@jcrasnick
Tim Raines got 52.2 percent. Bagwell 59.6 percent. Piazza 57.8 percent. Clemens and Bonds both mired in 36-37 percent range
 
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I was hoping Raines was going to get more support. He is creeping up there, but not fast enough. How Jack Morris got 67% is beyond me. I guess pitching a shutout in game 7 of a WS is enough to be considered.
 
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I don't know how many years Raines has been eligible or how many more chances he's got but he deserves to be in there. He was probably the toughest out in the Expos' line-up and could do a lot of things at an elite level. He could hit for average, he could play defence and man could he run the bases. If Andre Dawson, probably the easiest out in the Expos' line-up when the game was on the line can be a Hall of Famer, then Raines certainly should be as well.
 
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Sadly, Tim Raines seems like a mega longshot at this point. Lots of great candidates are coming up shortly.
 
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I was hoping Raines was going to get more support. He is creeping up there, but not fast enough. How Jack Morris got 67% is beyond me. I guess pitching a shutout in game 7 of a WS is enough to be considered.

Ya, the Rock needs to get in. He definitely deserves it. Piazza there's always been 'rumors' of him roiding up. He's a big guy, I can't say for sure. But Tim Raines was a guy who gave it his all everygame, these are the guys that deserve to get in. Not a Sammy Sosa, that's for sure. I'm going to go to a couple of jays games this year, finally they put themselves a decent lineup together, probably not good enough but they will at least be competitive.
 
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the voters really can't decide if the HoF is a Museum of the sport, or a shrine to its better players...

if its a museum, then the entire history needs to be in there... drugs, PED, gambling, wife beaters...

if its a shrine, then only the deserving on and off the field needs to go in...

I'm more in support of the shrine, to honor the best and the stats that all baseball fans love!
 
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Looks like strike three for game man. Sad, but not surprising.

TMZ.com reports that Milton Bradley has been charged with 13 counts related to several alleged attacks on his estranged wife and could get up to 13 years in prison.

According to the report, the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office has filed charges against Bradley, 34, stemming from five different incidents involving spousal battery, criminal threats, assault with a deadly weapon, vandalism and dissuading a witness from making a report. Bradley didn't play in 2012, but his career in baseball is obviously over.
 
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