It's a tough day to be a baseball fan. And, when they appoint an octogenarian special committee to, specifically, ensure Rose gets elected, that will probably be it for me.
This is a categorical error. Are we to pretend that Thomas Jefferson was never President because he raped his slaves?
One of us doesn't know what the Baseball Hall of Fame is for, it's fine if it's me, but if so I now know that the Baseball Hall of Fame is a joke.
So expel Babe, expel Cobb, expel Mantle. Professional baseball was never a competition between groups of choirboys. Like every other professional sport, it was a bunch of drunken, drugged-up whoremongers. If you can't include your sport's greatest hitter, your Hall is a joke.
Look, if you think it's cool to honor a guy who, ahead of time, we know raped a teenage girl, that's your journey to take. I hope it's a fulfilling one for you.
Babe Ruth paid poor women to have sex with him for money. Bask in his greatness, and be fulfilled. Tell me what the Hall is for? Is it just Calvinball?
Another trumpery attempt to divert attention from his own failings. Let's all fawn over athletes who cheated and broke the rules of their organizations. Celebrate all criminals in the name of king trumpery !
I don't know what's worse, that Manfred did this because he's bending the knee to Trump or the former players trying to tell everyone how great this is and claiming it is just because he admitted to gambling as a manager.
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One of us doesn't know what the Baseball Hall of Fame is for, it's fine if it's me, but if so I now know that the Baseball Hall of Fame is a joke.