Dawson only inductee..........

[autograf]

Guess the spitter will have to wait another year......
Looks like Blyleven WILL make it in sooner or later.......

[calvindog]

Someone explain to me why Dawson deserves to make the HOF and not Alomar. And Bert Blyleven gets more votes than Alomar too?

[Robextend]

As I said in the Postwar Forum, I don't understand how Alomar was not a first ballot HOFer.

[Anthony S.]

There seems to be quite a few writers who hold first-ballotee HOF nominees to a higher standard than their counterparts who've been rotting on the ballot for several years. If not for the Hirschbeck incident he almost assuredly could have expectorated to make it this year. Psyched that Hawk finally made it.

[docpatlv]

I agree with Anthony, I think first ballot nominees are held to a higher standard. I think there is some added significance when a player goes in on his first ballot. I believe this was Dawson's ninth try and I'm glad to see him go in. I saw a lot of Cubs games in the late 80's and loved watching him play. I do think Alomar deserves to be in and will most likely do so next year.

[Exhibitman]

More subjective crap--nowhere in the rules does it tell the voters to analyze the players who are 1st time on the ballot under more stringent standards that repeat offenders. If a guy deserves to get in, he deserves to get in. Maybe they should move to 1 time and out voting so that none of these games are played.

What's gonna be really interesting is to see what happens when the heart of the steroid lineup comes up to bat in the next few years.

[chaddurbin]

last year jim rice, this year dawson...2 wrongs don't make a right!

[oldjudge]

Alomar stunk at the end of his career and must have been a club house cancer. Two teams in each of his last two years doesn't mean that he was a positive presence for younger players. Plus, for the spitting incident, I would never vote for him. In my book he is scum.