Comments on: Bob Lemon and the Hall of Fame http://seamheads.com/2008/01/21/bob-lemon-and-the-hall-of-fame/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:40:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike Lynch http://seamheads.com/2008/01/21/bob-lemon-and-the-hall-of-fame/comment-page-1/#comment-361 Mike Lynch Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:37:03 +0000 http://seamheads.com/blog/2008/01/21/bob-lemon-and-the-hall-of-fame/#comment-361 Mike, I couldn't agree more. I was thinking the same thing while I was writing. I heard a story on the radio not long after the HOF voting this year that was almost identical to the one about Daley. Someone pointed out Bert Blyleven's stats to a writer, who then responded, "Well, if I'd known all that I would have voted for him." How can these guys not know? With all the tools available to us, anyone with a computer can look this stuff up and with all the web sites dedicated to baseball anyone can have stats explained to them if necessary. I don't get it.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('361','Mike Lynch'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('361','Mike Lynch','Mike,\r\n\r\nI couldn\'t agree more. I was thinking the same thing while I was writing. I heard a story on the radio not long after the HOF voting this year that was almost identical to the one about Daley. Someone pointed out Bert Blyleven\'s stats to a writer, who then responded, \"Well, if I\'d known all that I would have voted for him.\" How can these guys not know? With all the tools available to us, anyone with a computer can look this stuff up and with all the web sites dedicated to baseball anyone can have stats explained to them if necessary. I don\'t get it.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Mike,

I couldn’t agree more. I was thinking the same thing while I was writing. I heard a story on the radio not long after the HOF voting this year that was almost identical to the one about Daley. Someone pointed out Bert Blyleven’s stats to a writer, who then responded, “Well, if I’d known all that I would have voted for him.” How can these guys not know? With all the tools available to us, anyone with a computer can look this stuff up and with all the web sites dedicated to baseball anyone can have stats explained to them if necessary. I don’t get it.

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]]> By: John Lease http://seamheads.com/2008/01/21/bob-lemon-and-the-hall-of-fame/comment-page-1/#comment-356 John Lease Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:56:47 +0000 http://seamheads.com/blog/2008/01/21/bob-lemon-and-the-hall-of-fame/#comment-356 Not too surprising, I guess. I know that in the old veterans committee picks it was all about politics and vote swapping. Too bad supposed 'expert' baseball writers couldn't bother to actually look up guys when they hit the ballot. Bill Mazeroski and Lloyd Waner both got in due to the influence of longtime GM of the Pirates Joe L. Brown.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('356','John Lease'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('356','John Lease','Not too surprising, I guess. I know that in the old veterans committee picks it was all about politics and vote swapping. Too bad supposed \'expert\' baseball writers couldn\'t bother to actually look up guys when they hit the ballot. Bill Mazeroski and Lloyd Waner both got in due to the influence of longtime GM of the Pirates Joe L. Brown.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Not too surprising, I guess. I know that in the old veterans committee picks it was all about politics and vote swapping. Too bad supposed ‘expert’ baseball writers couldn’t bother to actually look up guys when they hit the ballot. Bill Mazeroski and Lloyd Waner both got in due to the influence of longtime GM of the Pirates Joe L. Brown.
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]]> By: Mike Hoban http://seamheads.com/2008/01/21/bob-lemon-and-the-hall-of-fame/comment-page-1/#comment-346 Mike Hoban Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:13:30 +0000 http://seamheads.com/blog/2008/01/21/bob-lemon-and-the-hall-of-fame/#comment-346 Great article. But, as you pointed out, how distressing it is to see just how bad the research done by the writers really is. If Arthur Daley (who I always admired) did no serious research on Lemon for his first nine years on the ballot - you can imagine how careless many of the other writers are. Isn't it time for the Hall of Fame to entrust this voting to more serious baseball people?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('346','Mike Hoban'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('346','Mike Hoban','Great article. But, as you pointed out, how distressing it is to see just how bad the research done by the writers really is. If Arthur Daley (who I always admired) did no serious research on Lemon for his first nine years on the ballot - you can imagine how careless many of the other writers are.\r\n\r\nIsn\'t it time for the Hall of Fame to entrust this voting to more serious baseball people?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Great article. But, as you pointed out, how distressing it is to see just how bad the research done by the writers really is. If Arthur Daley (who I always admired) did no serious research on Lemon for his first nine years on the ballot – you can imagine how careless many of the other writers are.

Isn’t it time for the Hall of Fame to entrust this voting to more serious baseball people?

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