http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/12/07/the-veterans-committee-vote-is-in-herzog-in/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Sat, 25 May 2013 19:44:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/12/07/the-veterans-committee-vote-is-in-herzog-in/comment-page-1/#comment-14903 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:20:40 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=2513#comment-14903 Craig, Marvin Miller is the least of it. When those ambulatory sphincters didn’t vote Buck O’Neil into the Hall, I lost whatever little interest I had in the entire process. For as much as I care, you could stuff the whole lot of them into the cylinder next to Ted Williams’ head.

]]> http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/12/07/the-veterans-committee-vote-is-in-herzog-in/comment-page-1/#comment-14902 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:20:25 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=2513#comment-14902 It’s a small subset, made up of players, writers and executives. The word is that the players — Tom Seaver and Robin Roberts particularly — went to the mat for Miller, but that the executives voted overwhelmingly against him.

]]> http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2009/12/07/the-veterans-committee-vote-is-in-herzog-in/comment-page-1/#comment-14901 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:14:05 +0000 http://localhost/wp/nbchbt/?p=2513#comment-14901 Can you remind us of who is on these committees? I seem to recall that for players, the Veterans Committee is every living member of the Hall plus a few others. Clearly, that’s not the case here.

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