While a fair point, we don't really know the numbers - there could be two dozen 9-year guys on the block, for all we know. And any purging of unqualified voters is an overall good thing; it increases Bagwell's chances. I would wager none of the three new ones will top Trammell's ~45%. So they're replacing two inductees & Trammell (+ McGwire). As we saw with Biggio last year, Piazza this year, a herd mentality rears up when players get close. And Bagwell should be close without another viable candidate on the ballot (other than Raines, who is likely to not generate as much support).
Glad you are confident :grin: Bags is a man of many nicknames... similar to Deion Sanders, Barkley, and Jordan I remember media (not just Milo) saying Bagpipes/Pipes back in the day. Even his baseball-reference page denotes it CF goal for today... Spoiler ... work "denote" into a post
Interesting <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="und" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/NotMrTibbs">@NotMrTibbs</a> <a href="https://t.co/rvxH8MIA3s">pic.twitter.com/rvxH8MIA3s</a></p>— 6 Months 100 Pounds (@6Months100Pound) <a href="https://twitter.com/6Months100Pound/status/684830112978726913">January 6, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> bagwell-jeff gives no page found
Griffey doesn't either, though I've tried it several ways. Ripken is just Ripken-Cal, so I'd expect Griffey to be the same, but it says no page found.
There is, but you were talking 60-65%, when it takes more like 65-70% for that mentality to get you across. If he gets 70%, his odds for next year are probably 99.9%.
I heard MLB invited him to NYC for the announcement, which isn't indicative of anything other than they obviously deemed him close. Someone told me Biggio was invited two years ago.
Griffey did show up as griffey-jr-ken . I tried that. Also someone in reply to the first tweet had several that they tried and posted.Not that it means anything but it doesn't really reveal anything that most of us didn't already suspect.
The significance is that it shows they made the page already, it basically tells you who is in and who is not. Or at least it suggests who might be and who is probably not.
Not that we didn't already know this, but ESPN writers suck... http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/1...s-elected-espn-2016-baseball-hall-fame-ballot Jeff Bagwell, 11 votes (61.1 percent) Voters: Caple, Crasnick, Kurkjian, Matthews, O'Connor, Padilla, Pascarelli, Roberts, Rubin, Saxon, Stark.
He tried it two ways, as Mike Piazza and then as Joe Piazza. Joe returned page unavailable; Mike returned unauthorized to access... meaning, they've built a page for Mike Piazza. Griffey, too. Raines, Bagwell, etc.: unavailable (meaning, no page).
Well, Bryant and Gomez were no-brainers. I think asking ESPN employees to vote on an ESPN employee (Schilling) is asinine (and shows a bias, given his performance among non-co-workers). I can't fathom any rational argument for voting for a closer. And if you vote Hoffman and not Bagwell, you're demonstrating a fundamental misunderstanding of baseball on a very basic level.
Typing in "Bonds-Barry" in place of Mike Piazza also gives me the "You are not authorized..." message.
