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Morris is off the ballot next year, finally.
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If Jack Morris gets in, it'll be because of one game, which just goes to show the hypocrisy of the baseball writers.
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Except Glavine won two CYA, and had really good postseason (especially WS) numbers, which counts more for some.
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Jim Callis @jimcallisMLB 14m My 10-man ballot, listed alphabetically: Bagwell, Biggio, Bonds, Clemens, Glavine, Maddux, Piazza, Schilling, Thomas, Trammell ... Jim Callis @jimcallisMLB 13m Would have voted for these guys but ran out of room: Kent, Martinez, McGwire, Mussina, Palmeiro, Raines, Sosa (also listed alphabetically) Jim Callis @jimcallisMLB 12m Of course, I don't actually have a HOF ballot. Apparently writing about baseball for 25 years doesn't make me a baseball writer.
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Another MLB.com voter voted for Palmeiro because he "was a marvel before he got caught doping". But not Bonds or Clemens.
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Neyer calls it the worst HOF ballot in history: http://www.baseballnation.com/2014/1/7/5284256/hall-fame-ballot-ken-gurnick-worst-ever-voting
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I confused Lee Smith with Bruce Sutter. I'm not sure how I did that.
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Don't really see why that's "meatballish" (God I hate that [expletive] term, it's gotten to the point of "hipster" around here). Either you think he deserves to be in or you don't. It's meatballish because it's an ignorant way to explain away why someone forgot he was that good. Like I said a couple posts up, Lee Smith was voted into the HOF recently, and I'd take at least 20 people from this ballot over him, as much as I liked him as a player.
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Let's play a game. Assume you are a GM. How many players on this year's ballot would you have traded Lee Smith for in an instant? I count at least 20.
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Deng finishes his Bulls career as the 4th leading scorer in Bulls history behind Jordan, Pippen, and Bob Love.
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He was a better pitcher than Glavine, but nobody really noticed because he was on Orioles teams that weren't ever famous and he was by himself there. The "Hall of Very Good" crap is exactly the meatballish thought I expected from the voters.
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$$$ Next year's recruits aren't going to pay themselves to go to Bama.
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ESPN is transparent, if not smart: http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10231471/craig-biggio-tom-glavine-greg-maddux-frank-thomas-elected-espn-2014-baseball-hall-fame-ballot
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Illinois sneaks into the AP poll for the first and likely last time this season.
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PSU's been terrible a lot over the past 10 years. This is just the first time Illinois has been able to take advantage of it.
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Illinois' largest win over PSU since 2005.
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Good read from Pomeroy as to a better way to qualify quality wins: http://kenpom.com/blog/index.php/weblog/entry/fairness_in_quality_wins
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Odd quirk, Indiana has yet to beat anyone in the Pomeroy top 100.
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Lol if you're being serious. Isn't that Erik's alias? That would make a lot of sense. No, it's Cynosure's alias. Same crazy, but an actual Chicago fan. Mostly sticks to hockey insanity though. Originally banned for actively rooting against Cubs in hopes to be right about a point, to the extent of trolling game threads cheering when they did poorly.
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Well, if I wasn't convinced the FO made the smart play in re-signing Cutler, the fact that Reilly hates it basically seals it.
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Interesting arbitrary cutoff of 3 years, since the previous two years he played every game necessary. Basically, the point is you don't string Cutler around another year just in the name of finding a sure thing, since there are no sure things. Same thing with Forte, you want your best players playing with an assurance that the team wants you, so you give them longer term deals so that's one less thing on their minds when the games are being played.
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This guy is a professional sportswriter and doesn't understand guaranteed money. No, it isn't. The 7 years by itself is pretty meaningless, but I'd be surprised if that isn't a sign that the money is pretty huge as well. If the Schefter tweet turns out to be accurate, that would probably leave the Bears stuck in the 15th-23rd best QB situation overall (taking into account play and contract) in the league for the next few years. Of course, if they got rid of him, there would be no guarantee that they would get someone better. Efficiency is worth only so much when the other available options are so terrible, and nobody in the draft is going to help them for 2-3 years.
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Also, I am so glad that the people running the team are so much smarter than the local media and fan base.
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Jay Cutler is #1 trending on Twitter. I refuse to look, though.
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Groce all about this TO. Laughed at the time, too. http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y157/UIHuskie/GroceCallsTimeoutHoosiers.gif
