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Cal Ripken would have had the highest percentage of all time...

gregmo32gregmo32 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭
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...if it weren't for two crusaders who decided to send their ballots back blank. What a great way to show your disapproval for the steroid era - by robbing Ripken and Gwynn of your vote!
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  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭
    Highest of all time? This is The Mystique of The Streak. Yes, Ripken was great and a no-doubt deserving first-ballot HOFer, but highest percentage ever? He wasn't THAT unbelievably great.
  • IrishMikeIrishMike Posts: 7,737 ✭✭✭
    BFD!
  • reiny81reiny81 Posts: 53


    << <i>Highest of all time? This is The Mystique of The Streak. Yes, Ripken was great and a no-doubt deserving first-ballot HOFer, but highest percentage ever? He wasn't THAT unbelievably great. >>



    This whole is he great enough to be unanimous or not question is stupid. Either the guy is a hall of famer or not. Cal is as no brainer as anybody has been. How does Ruth and Williams not get in unanimously. There are alot of guys of which Ripken is one, that should have gotten in unanimously. The whole political factor is idiotic. If the guy is an HOFer you should vote for him if not you shouldn't. End of discussion. It is so political voters have forgotten what the HOF is about.
  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭


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    << <i>Highest of all time? This is The Mystique of The Streak. Yes, Ripken was great and a no-doubt deserving first-ballot HOFer, but highest percentage ever? He wasn't THAT unbelievably great. >>



    This whole is he great enough to be unanimous or not question is stupid. Either the guy is a hall of famer or not. Cal is as no brainer as anybody has been. How does Ruth and Williams not get in unanimously. There are alot of guys of which Ripken is one, that should have gotten in unanimously. The whole political factor is idiotic. If the guy is an HOFer you should vote for him if not you shouldn't. End of discussion. It is so political voters have forgotten what the HOF is about. >>




    I couldn't have put it better myself.
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nobody will either remember or if they do ....... care about voting percentages down the road when both Ripken and Gywnn's stuff are gawked at in Cooperstown.

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    voters have NOT "forgotten" what the HOF is about. The voting process has been political and will continue to be political. Its not some kind of trend or anything .....

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