Hall of Fame Voter Comes to Senses, Regrets Clueless Rickey Henderson Omission
1-liner, Baseball, Media Gossip/Musings January 9th. 2009, 10:00amRickey Thinks Rickey … : Writer Corky Simpson, who will forever be known as the guy who left Rickey Henderson off his Hall of Fame ballot, regrets the error. If you thought we were harsh, you should have seen what ESPN’s Rob Neyer followed with. (Tucson Citizen via Homer Derby)
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January 9th, 2009 at 10:04 am
But how are we supposed to work Tim Tebow into this conversation?
January 9th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Triston -
via Favre and Romo.
January 9th, 2009 at 10:19 am
At this point, with every BBWAA vote being scrutinized and broken down by anyone with a computer, why would a writer not take his time? Between the guys who voted for Volquez for NL ROY to this guy admitting that he rushed his HOF picks, they’re pretty much admitting that they’re friggin stupid. Unless their point was to get make their name known…
January 9th, 2009 at 10:26 am
this guy’s vote won’t keep Henderson out of the HOF. Neyer’s kind of a prick anyway when it comes to the HOF and his tunnel vision for stats.
January 9th, 2009 at 10:38 am
I heard somewhere that if you split Rickey Henderson in two, you’d get two HOFers.
January 9th, 2009 at 10:57 am
Yeah, focusing on what players actually did to determine greatness. What a jerk.
Also, if anyone has a right to be a prick about the Hall of Fame it is Neyer. Idiots like Corky Simpson have a vote, while Neyer does not.
January 9th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Corky’s apology headline-
“Ooops I crapped my pants”
The guy is 88 years old he could have forgotten.
January 9th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Neyer just looks at stats to determine a players skills, he doesn’t pick his head from the stat sheet.
January 9th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Statistics dominate every other facet of society. Do you want the engineer building your bridge to use math or just eyeball it? Do you want your doctor diagnosing an illness based on objective data or what he thinks without hard information? Every other branch of society uses hard, empirical data. Why should baseball be any different. There are problems with statistics, but that’s an argument for finding better statistics, not hiding under a rock with fingers in your ears.