Monthly Archives: January 2007

And the votes are in…

…and as I thought might hap­pen, Gwynn and Rip­ken got in, and no one else did. I have no issue with that; surely Gwynn and Rip­ken deserve to be in the Hall, and it’s not like there were any “can’t miss” can­di­dates that got locked out, or any play­ers who got in that shouldn’t have […]

Hall Predictions

Gwynn and Rip­ken are going to make it. No ques­tion. Gos­sage I think will. I think the Sut­ter inclu­sion will give him enough momen­tum. I think Rice will get damn close, par­tially because of how close he was last year, par­tially because his time is run­ning out soon, and par­tially because some vot­ers will feel […]

My somewhat quick and dirty All Star Ballot

There’s another arti­cle in here which turned into some­thing I want to spend more time on, but I still want to post my Hall of Fame bal­lot before vot­ing num­bers are released on the 9th (bal­lots were due on Decem­ber 31st, but I’m not a voter, am I?) The first approach to the bal­lot is to […]