|
Replies: 11
| visibility 2003
|
Clemson Icon [27792]
TigerPulse: 100%
54
Posts: 32052
Joined: 2003
|
I wonder who the one voter was
Jan 22, 2020, 10:57 AM
|
|
Who voted against Jeter being inducted into the HOF? I guess he thought it shouldn’t be unaminous.
|
|
|
|
 |
All-TigerNet [5942]
TigerPulse: 100%
39
|
Re: I wonder who the one voter was
Jan 22, 2020, 10:58 AM
|
|
I wondered the same thing
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Immortal [66092]
TigerPulse: 100%
60
Posts: 44950
Joined: 1998
|
this is a long, tired, and stupid tradition
Jan 22, 2020, 11:03 AM
|
|
this is not new.
11 people didn't vote for BABE RUTH. Was Jeter better than Babe Ruth? Apparently so by a lot, according to the percentage of the vote.
It took Joe Dimaggio 4 years to get a 75% vote and finally get in.
Just a bad look all around.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clemson Conqueror [11484]
TigerPulse: 100%
46
|
Re: this is a long, tired, and stupid tradition
Jan 22, 2020, 11:10 AM
|
|
I'm not sure it's the same thing at all.
I'm not surprised that there were 11 voters who didn't like Babe Ruth as a person and thought that was enough to warrant him not being in the Hall of Fame. He was certainly not the "baseball gentleman" that players were expected to be back then.
Obviously Dimaggio is a Hall of Famer, but he doesn't really have any eye popping numbers in terms of statistics. .325 BA is likely his best stat.
Less than 2,500 hits and less than 400 homers.
Fortunately voters eventually looked past these career numbers that were severely hurt by his years in the military in the prime of his career.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clemson Icon [27792]
TigerPulse: 100%
54
Posts: 32052
Joined: 2003
|
Re: this is a long, tired, and stupid tradition
Jan 22, 2020, 11:25 AM
|
|
I agree about the military service affecting many players. Especially Williams who was a fighter pilot. Dimaggio spent practically his entire military career (2 years at most) playing baseball with base teams.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ultimate Clemson Legend [102836]
TigerPulse: 100%
64
Posts: 30077
Joined: 2005
|
Probably a writer with the Boston Herald or Boston Globe***
Jan 22, 2020, 11:13 AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
TigerNet Eternal Icon [186528]
TigerPulse: 100%
70
Posts: 30123
Joined: 2012
|
agree^^^***
Jan 22, 2020, 11:46 AM
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Playmaker [388]
TigerPulse: 100%
16
|
Re: Probably a writer with the Boston Herald or Boston Globe***
Jan 22, 2020, 12:08 PM
[ in reply to Probably a writer with the Boston Herald or Boston Globe*** ] |
|
I think that would be too obvious..I'm thinking of the angle of someone who loves Mariano and wanted to keep him as the only unanimous selection. Either way, well deserved.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ultimate Clemson Legend [102836]
TigerPulse: 100%
64
Posts: 30077
Joined: 2005
|
They will be releasing voting results next month, so the guy
Jan 22, 2020, 12:20 PM
|
|
has time to change his name and likeness
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clemson Icon [27295]
TigerPulse: 100%
54
Posts: 10295
Joined: 2015
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Phenom [14959]
TigerPulse: 100%
49
Posts: 24052
Joined: 2004
|
It's some ridiculous HOF voter thing. They dont like players
Jan 22, 2020, 12:18 PM
|
|
being unanimous. HOF voting is worse than Heisman voting. Heisman voters are incompetent and far too many of them doing even know what's going on in CFB, but these HOF voters are life-long baseball writers that closely follow the sport and make terrible decisions out of spite and ridiculous traditions that make no sense.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Orange Elite [5516]
TigerPulse: 100%
38
|
Re: I wonder who the one voter was
Jan 22, 2020, 12:19 PM
|
|
I confess, it was me, I voted against Jeter. I can't accept the fact that a player could be that good, for that long, and be a good person, too. I figured there had to be some closet skeletons somewhere so I left him off the ballot. I knew he would get in but I had to make my presence known albeit in absence!
|
|
|
|
|
|
Replies: 11
| visibility 2003
|
|
|
50
