Joel Sherman has had some good comments on the HOF voting (his ballot was probably the best one I'd seen) and when him and a dinosaur like Bill Madden were on MLB Network recently, Madden made a comment about how McGriff and Kent should be in because they played clean against a tainted environment and need to be rewarded.
Sherman asked him how he knows they were clean and how he knows Bagwell and Piazza were not and asked Madden for the urine samples he no doubt was privy to, to make such a statement.
What's funny about that is hasn't Kent been suspected too at some points? I think I remember that. "He played with Bonds!!11!!"
The rule of 10 really needs to go. The HoF seems to think people are just gonna start voting for everyone on the ballot and it won't be "exclusive" well you still need 75% and not enough voters are going to be stupid enough/a big enough jackass to vote for everyone or more Aaron Sele's for them to get anywhere close to 75%.
All you're doing is hurting the McGriff's/Mussina's/Walker's of the world and also I'm sure some people are using the "ROIDS!!1!" "tiebreak" to keep Bonds and Clemens off if they have more than 10 they'd like to vote for. But in the case of the latter, that's what the Hall wants.
On another note. I was reading some of Jayson Stark's tweets today and he seems to think Andruw Jones is more likely to go the way of Kenny Lofton and Jim Edmonds than ever get in. Which is a shame. He was also pimping Omar Vizquel and a lot of people seemed to agree. I mean I've said in this very thread there's an argument to be made for Vizquel if you really wanted to but I don't think he should come close to getting in on such a stacked ballot.
Next year we're probably looking at Hoffman, Vlad, Chipper and maybe Thome. I expect Edgar to become the new Raines and get in in 2019.
