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The 1952 Hockey HOF Class is up
Jan 17, 2013
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Well, you have seen us grow our site with the addition of existing Hockey Hall of Fame inductees. We have done the first four classes, so we move to the Class of 1952 who comprises:
Bill Cook
Dickie Boon
Mickey MacKay
Moose Goheen
Moose Johnson
Nels Stewart
Gang you know the drill. Check it out, and cast your votes. Look for upcoming classes soon!
Bill Cook
Dickie Boon
Mickey MacKay
Moose Goheen
Moose Johnson
Nels Stewart
Gang you know the drill. Check it out, and cast your votes. Look for upcoming classes soon!
Mick Foley to the WWE HOF
Jan 12, 2013
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It was reported today on WWE.com that the “Hardcore Legend”, Mick Foley will be inducted to the WWE Hall of Fame this year. Foley was the first name announced to this year’s class which many people expect to be a loaded one as it will be held in the “Mecca of Sports Entertainment”, Madison Square Gardens in New York City.
Foley has often told the story of hitchhiking to the Gardens to see the Steel Cage Match between Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka and “The Magnficent” Muraco and for him to be inducted to the Hall of Fame in that facility has to generate a special feeling for the former three time WWE World Heavyweight Champion.
Under the personas of Cactus Jack, Mankind, Dude Love and his own given name, Foley had his greatest success in the Vince McMahon owned company, and his recent return to the organization felt like a homecoming for many of his fans.
We had the pleasure of interviewing Mick while he was still TNA and asked him whether he would accept an invite to the WWE HOF. He responded that he would, and we are very happy to see that this came to fruition.
Mick Foley is ranked #7 on our Notinhalloffame WWE list. For now, we will not take him off and will revise our respective list after Wrestlemania. We congratulate Mick for his latest achievement. It is well earned!
Foley has often told the story of hitchhiking to the Gardens to see the Steel Cage Match between Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka and “The Magnficent” Muraco and for him to be inducted to the Hall of Fame in that facility has to generate a special feeling for the former three time WWE World Heavyweight Champion.
Under the personas of Cactus Jack, Mankind, Dude Love and his own given name, Foley had his greatest success in the Vince McMahon owned company, and his recent return to the organization felt like a homecoming for many of his fans.
We had the pleasure of interviewing Mick while he was still TNA and asked him whether he would accept an invite to the WWE HOF. He responded that he would, and we are very happy to see that this came to fruition.
Mick Foley is ranked #7 on our Notinhalloffame WWE list. For now, we will not take him off and will revise our respective list after Wrestlemania. We congratulate Mick for his latest achievement. It is well earned!
Football HOF Finalists are out
Jan 12, 2013
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The Football Hall of Fame has announced their finalists for the 2013 Class. It includes four first time nominees, which should not be a surprise to anyone that they made the cut. Jonathan Ogden, Larry Allen, Warren Sapp and Michael Strahan have all cracked the list of finalists, and all could conceivable have a shot to enter on their debut appearance. This group of four is joined by some familiar faces at this stage.
Wide Receivers, Cris Carter, Tim Brown and Andre Reed are all back. All three have received a wide breadth of fan support though the induction process and it is hard for us to think that all three will be left out again. Also returning is Running Back, Jerome Bettis whose profile as a television broadcaster keeps his name fresh. Five Time Super Bowl winner, Charles Haley returns with fellow defensive star, Kevin Greene. Will Shields and Aeneas Williams also return to the Finalists as do Former owners of the 49ers and Browns/Ravens respectively, Edward DeBartolo Jr. and Art Modell, who passed away last year. The list is rounded out by former coach, Bill Parcells, who many pundits (including us) think will enter this year.
There are two senior nominees, Curley Culp and Dave Robinson who are also on the ballot. There will be a minimum of four to a maximum of seven players selected which will be announced on February 2nd, the day before the Super Bowl.
Wide Receivers, Cris Carter, Tim Brown and Andre Reed are all back. All three have received a wide breadth of fan support though the induction process and it is hard for us to think that all three will be left out again. Also returning is Running Back, Jerome Bettis whose profile as a television broadcaster keeps his name fresh. Five Time Super Bowl winner, Charles Haley returns with fellow defensive star, Kevin Greene. Will Shields and Aeneas Williams also return to the Finalists as do Former owners of the 49ers and Browns/Ravens respectively, Edward DeBartolo Jr. and Art Modell, who passed away last year. The list is rounded out by former coach, Bill Parcells, who many pundits (including us) think will enter this year.
There are two senior nominees, Curley Culp and Dave Robinson who are also on the ballot. There will be a minimum of four to a maximum of seven players selected which will be announced on February 2nd, the day before the Super Bowl.
Baseball HOF Reaction
Jan 10, 2013
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You will have to forgive the chairman as I am set to climb aboard the soapbox again. The reaction received twenty four hours after the Baseball Writers of America pitched a shutout to the most star studded ballot (since the first ballot in 1936) has bothered me; though I realize I should have seen this coming.
Many current Baseball Hall of Fame inductees have been vocal about their opinions about not letting suspected PED users (namely Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds & Sammy Sosa) into Cooperstown. Andre Dawson had commented weeks ago that those players should not be inducted. Jim Bunning recently spoke out and said he would not be comfortable visiting the Hall anymore that they been elected. Slugger, Al Kaline echoed the same sentiment, that he was “honoured to be in the Hall” and he would not feel comfortable “listening to some of these new guys talk about how great they were’. On Twitter, Dennis Eckersley tweeted how the Baseball Writers made a statement and that it “feels right.”
Perhaps nobody has been as blunt as Rich “Goose” Gossage, who entered the Hall of Fame for his work as a Relief Pitcher. The Goose bluntly said that the “steroids guys under suspicion received too many votes” and that they “cheated” and should not be rewarded at all.
Can we assume that many other living Baseball Hall of Fame inductees feel the same way? Probably, we can. Taking PED users (or suspected ones) out of the equation, rarely do Hall of Famers seem happy about others entering the exclusive club. The Veteran’s Committee (comprised of Hall of Fame Players) rarely seem to induct anybody, and when they do it is after they have passed on (see Ron Santo). Okay, that may be a generalization, but doesn’t a club seem more exclusive with less members?
Whether those latter points are right are not, we know one thing for sure: That the Baseball Hall of Fame has taken no stance on whether those associated with Performance Enhancing Drugs should be in Cooperstown. In fact, they have said absolutely nothing on the topic. It is not that the Hall has not taken stances before. When Major League Baseball banned Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson for gambling on the sport, the Hall of Fame removed them from the ballot. Should any Baseball Writer simply write their names in (Rose did have in write in ballots) they would be (and were) discounted. However, we don’t blame the Baseball Hall for their inaction; they simply followed the lead of Bud Selig.
Currently,MLB does have a very stringent policy against its players who are caught using Performance Enhancing Drugs and we applaud them for it. Actually, it is one that other leagues could learn to follow. With that said, nowhere does it address those who used in the past. There is no annotation besides the names of record holders who have been linked to PEDs. There is no note on any Baseball record book with Barry Bonds’ 762 Home Runs, nor Roger Clemens Cy Young Awards. There never will be either. Baseball will not go back and take away those awards or records. How can they, when they did nothing for years?
Curt Schilling recently said “everyone was guilty” and that players either “used PEDs, or did nothing to stop their use”. He continued to say that the “generation got rich” and “there was a price to pay”. If everyone is in fact guilty this includes Bud Selig and the rest of Major League Baseball.
Off the soapbox now.
Many current Baseball Hall of Fame inductees have been vocal about their opinions about not letting suspected PED users (namely Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds & Sammy Sosa) into Cooperstown. Andre Dawson had commented weeks ago that those players should not be inducted. Jim Bunning recently spoke out and said he would not be comfortable visiting the Hall anymore that they been elected. Slugger, Al Kaline echoed the same sentiment, that he was “honoured to be in the Hall” and he would not feel comfortable “listening to some of these new guys talk about how great they were’. On Twitter, Dennis Eckersley tweeted how the Baseball Writers made a statement and that it “feels right.”
Perhaps nobody has been as blunt as Rich “Goose” Gossage, who entered the Hall of Fame for his work as a Relief Pitcher. The Goose bluntly said that the “steroids guys under suspicion received too many votes” and that they “cheated” and should not be rewarded at all.
Can we assume that many other living Baseball Hall of Fame inductees feel the same way? Probably, we can. Taking PED users (or suspected ones) out of the equation, rarely do Hall of Famers seem happy about others entering the exclusive club. The Veteran’s Committee (comprised of Hall of Fame Players) rarely seem to induct anybody, and when they do it is after they have passed on (see Ron Santo). Okay, that may be a generalization, but doesn’t a club seem more exclusive with less members?
Whether those latter points are right are not, we know one thing for sure: That the Baseball Hall of Fame has taken no stance on whether those associated with Performance Enhancing Drugs should be in Cooperstown. In fact, they have said absolutely nothing on the topic. It is not that the Hall has not taken stances before. When Major League Baseball banned Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson for gambling on the sport, the Hall of Fame removed them from the ballot. Should any Baseball Writer simply write their names in (Rose did have in write in ballots) they would be (and were) discounted. However, we don’t blame the Baseball Hall for their inaction; they simply followed the lead of Bud Selig.
Currently,
Curt Schilling recently said “everyone was guilty” and that players either “used PEDs, or did nothing to stop their use”. He continued to say that the “generation got rich” and “there was a price to pay”. If everyone is in fact guilty this includes Bud Selig and the rest of Major League Baseball.
Off the soapbox now.