Your Pick(s) for the Baseball HOF?

megatron

Announcements are made today. Who are your choices?

Ballot

I think that Boggs will be a sure first ballot HOF'er. Ryne Sandberg may also make it this year (He should have made it last year!). Other than that, I don't think anyone will make it.

StevenJackson39

jim rice is gettin screwed every yr- this will be the same.


boggs and ryne should go

CardsFan

I agree that Boggs and Sandberg should go. I'd also like to see Jack Morris get in (mainly because the game 7 2001 series was the best pitching performance of my time), but I think Blyleven and Lee Smith have a better chance.

megatron

<< <i>jim rice is gettin screwed every yr- this will be the same. >>



Agreed.

megatron

Boggs and Sandberg it is

Wasy

There is no way on earth that Sanberg should get in and Sutter and Rice be kept out. I believe that Rice was the only player of the late 70's early 80's to Average .300 30 100 for 10 seasons!! HoFer w/o a doubt and I'm a Yankee fan!!!!!

Wondo

I agree with Boggs, and I must have been the only person planet who thought Sandberg was over-hyped.

My personal favorites are Morris, Trammell and Blyleven. Rice, Murphy and Dawson are falling into the "compared to today" category. Although each was a dominant player in his era, the overall offensive totals of the 2000's dwarf and therefore minimize their accomplishments. A non-self-destructive Strawberry was as big of impact player as any of those three. See, mommy told you not to do drugs.



Edited to say: Sutter should get additional support because he was part of the closer revolution.

khayse

Definitely Boggs. I would like to see Morris get in.

-KHayse

mr3holesinone

Boggs would have been my only vote. Only one with 3000 hits or strikeouts/300 wins/500 homers where you always get in.

I would have voted Lee Smith, Andre Dawson, Tommy John and maybe Bruce Sutter ahead of Sandberg. Ryno was a nice player but I don't think he was Fame quality. I don't like seeing the Hall get watered down with 'nice' players. Rice, Concepcion, Blyleven and Murphy had very similar careers to Sandberg.

In my opinion, the Hall of Fame should be for the best of the best ever and sometimes innovators, depending upon how much they changed the game. Jackie Robinson exemplifies my idea of an innovator. His batting records aren't Hall of Fame quality, not by a long shot, but he changed the game in a major way. Without Jackie we may not have seen the young Willie Mays and then Willie may not have gotten over 600 homers...

soccerman034

Sandberg and Boggs are in !