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12-14-2018, 06:53 PM
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Baines had two guys lobbying very hard for him.
They must have been owed a few favors.
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12-14-2018, 07:07 PM
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Baines getting in is a joke IMO....I dont get it. He had a batting average of .280 with the White sox for 14 years.....Big Deal! Lifetime average .289??? What am I missing??
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12-14-2018, 07:12 PM
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I believe Garvey also had 6 or even more 200 hit seasons. There is no question that for a decade, he was an elite player. He was unpopular with the writers which surely hurt him in the voting.
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12-14-2018, 07:22 PM
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12-14-2018, 07:23 PM
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12-14-2018, 08:22 PM
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This has been going on since at least 1946. I'm neither surprised nor concerned. It really all depends upon your viewpoint about what the HOF is or should be. I'm not a small hall guy, so I am sure I am less unhappy than small hall folks are. But I would suggest that even small hall folks would have to acknowledge (grudgingly) that Baines isn't even close to the worst of some of the other folks who have been elected. I understand that I would also get the explanations about why that doesn't or shouldn't matter and how that "waters down" the HOF. But, irrespective of all that, the fact is that the HOF was "watered down" 72 years ago, and, depending on how you view Sisler, maybe 7 years earlier. It happened. Smith and Baines are both members. I'm pretty sure the world isn't going to end because of this vote.
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12-14-2018, 08:31 PM
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LOL that's a pretty low standard Kenny. I doubt the world is going to end because of anything we discuss here.
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