General Forum

It's that time again of year again. The official HOF ballot was released today. The results are slated to be announced on Jan 22nd. Still hard to believe it has been 5 years already for some of these guys. Seems just like yesterday... I bolded my choices.

• Rick Ankiel

• Jason Bay

• Lance Berkman

• Barry Bonds

• Roger Clemens

• Freddy García

• Jon Garland

• Travis Hafner

• Roy Halladay

• Todd Helton

• Andruw Jones

• Jeff Kent

• Ted Lilly

• Derek Lowe

• Edgar Martínez

• Fred McGriff

• Mike Mussina

• Darren Oliver

• Roy Oswalt

• Andy Pettitte

• Juan Pierre

• Plácido Polanco

• Manny Ramírez

• Mariano Rivera

• Scott Rolen

• Curt Schilling

• Gary Sheffield

• Sammy Sosa

• Miguel Tejada

• Omar Vizquel

• Billy Wagner

• Larry Walker

• Vernon Wells

• Kevin Youkilis

• Michael Young

Seeing the names and knowing how the voting has been lately with all the PED Drama, I can only see 3 making it might be a fourth on last remaining year. I would like to see Fred McGriff make it but numbers are short compared to what they always select. I don't follow the HOF Ballets much as so many Players get overlooked for being on Wrong team such as Detroit Tigers. so I am guessing 

• Roy Halladay

• Andy Pettitte

• Mariano Rivera

• Maybe Edgar Martínez

• Maybe Fred McGriff

• Always Lou Whitaker on my Ballot

And of course Willie Horton 

• 4× All-Star (1965, 1968, 1970, 1973)
• World Series champion (1968)
• Detroit Tigers No. 23 retired

Sweet Lou 

Lolich is the biggest crime out of Detroit missing from the Hall.

Halladay gets in as a first ballot after his untimely death. Rivera goes in with him. After that it is hard to say Mussina will get more votes from the Sabermetric reporters, and maybe Walker gets in because it is his last year on the ballot. The reporters will continue to punish Bonds, Clemens, and Sosa over Roids. Edgar Martinez should be in, but the voters hold the fact that he was a DH against him. While letting the Big Hurt and Molitor in in the past. Pettitte has postseason numbers but was not a HOF pitcher during the regular season. McGriff gets hurt because he retired 7 homers short of 500 during the steroid era.

Gibby is one I can't even forgive the writers in voting against, his WS Homer for the Dodgers is one of the Top 5 Moments if not the #1 

I’ll give my full votes later, but a few quick observations: 1) I heard Ankiel is trying to come back as a relief pitcher?! 2) I love the Tigers, but Willie Horton? I’m sorry. Bill Freehan before him. And Morris and Trammell BOTH just got in, so claiming anti-Tiger bias seems untimely, at least. 3) For all the complaining, my own included, the baseball HOF comes closer to getting it right than any other. 

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Moments don't make HOF's otherwise Aaron Boone, Scott Brosius, etc. would all be in also. What did Gibby in was injuries. If Gibby gets in then so does Dewey

It is one of those ones that is so obvious he should be in, that I keep forgetting Lolich is not in the Hall.

Are those some navy blue and orange colored glasses you're wearing?