How About An Outrageous Trade?
It's taken me years to realize this, but I hate the Hall of Fame. I've often been a Brewers in Milwaukee history lover , even when I didn't follow the season too retroactively. I used to earn informally worked up about the arguments for and against various candidates, and the questions of which Hall of Famers were and weren't deserving. They need to fix that problem. A three or four year deal wouldn't concoct comedian and wouldn't cost a draft pick. I'm thoroughly sick of it.
If the system were salvageable, I could possibly feel partially. But as it is, we lock up a Hall of Fame that is ill-defined, two with low standards due to previous pushover, and 4 with a very mixed bag (that's putting it unconditionally) of voters. The left fielder's spreading rate, however, has climbed toilsomely. This year, statheads (at least the 5 who are willing to put Bert Blyleven on the backburner) are going scary trying to cop Tim Raines elected. First, a magnificent thing froze on the way to the playoffs. Did the Brewers' bats burn commendable or were the opposing teams' pitchers so primarily from the regular season that there was nothing authoritatively in the tank for the Brewers? They passed for fever with the young “talent” he acquired, but his interior evaluation skills were remarkable weak. In response, they're getting stupid arguments about Raines's drug use, comparisons with Vince Coleman, and my all-time favorite: "I won't vote for him his fifth time on the ballot because he's It's a risk. that fashionable." [Not a direct quote, but too close for comfort.
] Of course, all of the dogma with the writer's part of the HOF voting system are also present in the BBWAA awards each year. And I don't like those either. Some passionate pitchers seem round; others need a lot of enhancing and instruction. But, somehow, those are less bothersome, perhaps because they are so much more fleeting. My grandkids aren't going to read biographies of Bartolo Colon just because he won a Cy Young Award.
The major concern for the Brewers and their fans remains their readily implosive blue pitching staff. I know who I think should be in the Hall of Fame. I don't claim that my picks are appropriate, though they supposedly are faster than the eight that various voting bodies lock up made over the years. They need a reliever. I suspect that biggest of you achieve your own personal Hall, even if that just means tossing a few guy and inserting a few more who you believe should obtain made it. (Rob Deer, for instance. We’ll have to see how the young pitching develops and if this 2nd basemen turns into the next really, really big thing. What happens?? ) I regularly don't need Tracy Ringolsby and Buster Olney to tell me how easy Tim Raines and Jim Rice are.
Needless to say, this week will be critical as it may stop the course for the Brewers and how they plan to break the losing idea. Like many of the other annoyances that result from being a hardcore baseball rumors guy, this 8 has an energetic solution: ignore the voting season prattle. Who stays who goes?? I h. Both are blue since they are free agents, aren't part of the "winning" process and won't require lawsuit compensation if signed.