WAR! What is it Good For? Absolutely Nothing!

[DOUGHBOYS]

I believe interest in the Hall of Fame is at an all-time low.
Folks and some baseball fans just plain don't care as they did earlier.
The Hall did a good thing by excising some dead weight writers. That's a start.
To combat the 'elitism' that suffocates and squeezes players like Tim Raines off ballots, the Hall lets them in later through the back door.
Raines will get in. They should just do it the right way.
They should limit or close the back door and the writers should be more 'loose' in their voting.


They also can quit playing Baseball God and let on-field factors be their main determining factor as well.
The Hall of Fame has become the hang man for Major League Baseball.
Instead of Major League Baseball policing their stars properly, it falls to the Hall of Fame later.
The voters give Piazza a pass as never cheating. They don't really know. Nobody does for sure.
Others don't get that pass.
It's silly and simply not right.

[Navel Lint]

I believe interest in the Hall of Fame is at an all-time low.
Folks and some baseball fans just plain don't care as they did earlier.
The Hall did a good thing by excising some dead weight writers. That's a start.
To combat the 'elitism' that suffocates and squeezes players like Tim Raines off ballots, the Hall lets them in later through the back door.
Raines will get in. They should just do it the right way.
They should limit or close the back door and the writers should be more 'loose' in their voting.

I was going to post this article in COZ's "Cool baseball sports writing" thread on the main page, but now it fits here as well.

The article speaks to the point that the writers have not done a good enough job enshrining the post "division-era" players. According to the article, this era player (1969 beyond) is under-represented in the HOF by approximately 42-45 players.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ba ... n-the-60s/

I know my 44 players