Bad Baseball Writers Act Asininely

I just got home from work, and surprise, surprise,surprise…fucking Andre Dawson got into the HOF - as he should have - but no one else did.  If that doesn’t illustrate my point from earlier today, then I don’t know what does.  That is some of the phoniest shit anywhere.  What is weird is EVERYBODY actually expected Roberto Alomar to get in on the mythical first ballot.  In fact, he should have.  I’ll guarantee you reports will surface that say the nerds in the BBWAA just didn’t think he was first ballot Hall of Famer material.  So he’ll probably be a second ballot HOF’er – no, that is not a certain species of bovine.  Then he will still be in the same goddamn HOF as everyone else.  Unless something has changed, they don’t separate these motherfuckers into wings based on what ballot they were voted in on.  The Hawk – Andre Dawson – got in on his 9th try, so it took 14 (5 +9 = 14 if my sources are correct) years after he hung up his spikes and stopped fucking groupies before he was voted in with the same stats he had the day he quit.  Dawson gets in, yet several other ballotees – Blyleven, Alomar, and someone else whose name flees and evades me – don’t.  WHAT A CROCS OF SHIT!  Unfortunately, baseball fans don’t get to vote on who gets into the BBWAA, or whatever the fuck it is.  I’m getting ready to investigate what it takes to get in there, and then probably lose my mind over it.

After putting up my post this morning, I received an email from a reader that said:  “Of those three, Dawson is clearly the least worthy.  One hall of fame year does not a hall of fame career make.”  To rebut, I believe that playing on those tired ass Cubs teams alone should either get him in, or merit some type of humanitarian award.  Opinions can and do differ, but the idea that after x amount of years you suddenly mighty morph into a HOF’er is more ignorant than myself.  To loosely quote Louis Jordan, either you is or you ain’t.  If Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Ty Cobb, Hank Aaron, Rickey Henderson, and others don’t get in on the first try and by a unanimous vote, it’s phony.  No way anyone could vote against those guys and some of the others without being committed to a looney bin and acting as an extra in A Clockwork Orange Redux.  Lee Smiff can’t get even a sniff, and he was the freakin’ all time save leader when he retired.  Put simply and redundantly, it’s phonier than Alexander Graham Bell at the patent office.