The three managers are all clearly very deserving candidates so obviously their elections are no problem....but it's bullcrap that Marvin Miller continues to be snubbed by these various HOF voting groups. (I also would've voted in Tommy John, to boot.)
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." --- Bart Giamatti, on baseball
Mattingly. AL MVP and runner up MVP the next year. Still, won't get in all the while being the face of the most famous franchise for almost a decade. Someone explain that to me. Oh yeah, now a post season manger. Here is his stats.
"When I retired [after the 1995 season], I was 34," Mattingly told ESPN. "If I had kept playing another five years, I may have ended up with 3,000 hits and reached some other milestones and gotten in. I made the decision for my boys, because I wanted to be around.
"When you do that type of thing, you know what you're doing, you know you're not going to make the Hall of Fame. If I was worried about making the Hall of Fame, I wouldn't have retired."
Forget the rest of the article, if you read the Mattingly quote on it's own you can see that he knows he's not going to the hall.
The rest of the arguments are pretty compelling, too (but a bit more incendiary).
Originally posted by lotjxMattingly. AL MVP and runner up MVP the next year. Still, won't get in all the while being the face of the most famous franchise for almost a decade. Someone explain that to me. Oh yeah, now a post season manger. Here is his stats.
The MLB HOF is a fucking joke. Good for the managers, each one of them deserves to be in.
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Mattingly has four elite-level seasons, about four more very good seasons and that's it. He's overrated because he played for the Yankees and is remembered so fondly by that generation of New York fans as the only bright light in that era of crappy Yankees baseball. A very good player who did have those four amazing seasons, but not a HOFer.
"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." --- Bart Giamatti, on baseball
Originally posted by lotjxMattingly. AL MVP and runner up MVP the next year. Still, won't get in all the while being the face of the most famous franchise for almost a decade. Someone explain that to me. Oh yeah, now a post season manger. Here is his stats.
The MLB HOF is a fucking joke. Good for the managers, each one of them deserves to be in.
(edited by lotjx on 9.12.13 1046)
Mattingly has four elite-level seasons, about four more very good seasons and that's it. He's overrated because he played for the Yankees and is remembered so fondly by that generation of New York fans as the only bright light in that era of crappy Yankees baseball. A very good player who did have those four amazing seasons, but not a HOFer.
I disagree. MLB has put people in the HOF for having two great seasons, he had almost eight years of good to great work as well as being an AL MVP and a runner up to Clemens in his prime. He was a multiple All Star with almost double digit golden gloves. If the Yankees were any good, he would be in like most of the old timers.
The Wee Baby Sheamus.Twitter: @realjoecarfley its a bit more toned down there. A bit.
Black ink - Mattingly 23; average HOFer 27 Grey ink - Mattingly 111; average HOFer 144 Hall of Fame Monitor - Mattingly 134; average HOFer 100 Hall of Fame Standards - Mattingly 34; average HOFer 5
Most similar player, with a score of 933, Cecil Cooper. Cooper's scores on the above measures were 12, 112, 96, and 28, respectively.
I've read about the subject, and I've seen Field of Dreams but not Eight Men Out, surprisingly enough. I'm more than casually familiar with it, but I'm not familiar with all the little details. Um, if this helps you at all, I'm glad.
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