Comments on: Nate Silver looks at the Hall of Fame voting

By: girardisbraces

girardisbraces — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:08:23 +0000

So based on the currently listed views on the spreadsheet, the closest to election is Biggio with 69.4% of ballots. That’s 109/157.

Assuming last year’s return of 573 ballots, Biggio would have to get 77% of the remaining voters (321 ballots) to squeak in. While I think he’s a Hall of Famer, I think it’s likely no one gets elected this year….

By: abaird2012

abaird2012 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:50:24 +0000

And Koufax used HGH for his arthritis …

By: abaird2012

abaird2012 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:45:54 +0000

Um, “punctuated” … irony, folks — give it a hand!

By: abaird2012

abaird2012 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:43:47 +0000

We knew you weren’t serious because everything was spelled and puctuated correctly.

By: churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged

churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:46:49 +0000

sorry hconn….Thought most people could read and understand…you must be a Cowboy fan?

Wait, you are mocking someone else for reading/understanding after posting that crime against grammar? I’m terrible with spelling errors, but I don’t insult others when I make a mistake.

http://www.explosm.net/comics/2712/

By: butchhuskey

butchhuskey — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:39:27 +0000

Oh crap, I meant to post this comment in the Tom Verducci thread. My mistake

By: butchhuskey

butchhuskey — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:37:40 +0000

I don’t think academic cheating and steroid use are quite the same. I mean, maybe if you believe drugs like ritalin that allow people to focus more and study better are wrong to use, then I guess there is an argument. But I don’t see how trying to make your body more adept at performance is akin to stealing answers on a test.

By: giant4life

giant4life — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:35:21 +0000

sorry hconn….Thought most people could read and understand…you must be a Cowboy fan?

By: cur68

cur68 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:31:37 +0000

He’s just a meme at this point, I think. But he’s a HELL of a good meme.

By: El Bravo

El Bravo — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:19:13 +0000

I will say this: it is inherently unfair for players to use performance-enhancing drugs in any era because some players may want to remain clean and therefore are likely at a competitive disadvantage simply by trying to play fair. To punish this person for being clean is unfair, obviously. Why then, would we ever expect that as a result of what is likely the second least fair era in baseball history (see segregated leagues for least fair) that the HOF voting for this eras’ players wold be any more fair? If you were truly clean and you played during the steroid era, you weren’t getting a fair shake back then and you won’t get one now. My point is that everything turned all clusterfuck back when they were using the shit, it has simply become apparent now just how big that cluster of fucks truly is. The wrong was done decades ago now and there’s no right way to reconcile this now.

By: cur68

cur68 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:18:15 +0000

iIs some sort of free verse, I think. Try reading it to the tune of Tom Sawyer by Rush. It’s got a kind of catchy rhythm to it…

By: 4d3fect

4d3fect — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:17:52 +0000

hm, not yet apparently.

By: 4d3fect

4d3fect — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:15:50 +0000

Is there a drunk twitter feed for him yet, a la @drunkhulk ?

By: hconnor2001

hconnor2001 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:15:00 +0000

Sorry, Giant, but what on earth are you talking about?

By: hconnor2001

hconnor2001 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:12:40 +0000

Totally got it the first time, stex -a perfectly fair (and funny!) parody of the original, bigoted comments of the Republican guys who sought, in the crudest and most ineffective terms imaginable to discredit Silver’s election forecasts (that, as I recall, were almost spot-on in the end).

By: sometimesimisscandlestick

sometimesimisscandlestick — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:03:42 +0000

So looking at the spread sheet numbers, could this be a year where no one gets elected – except by the veterans committee?

By: giant4life

giant4life — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:58:02 +0000

I accept tex’s response….yours?……”dismissing Mr. Silver this way” implies that he is a gay….and gay people sure and the hell don’t belong in baseball blogs…..no problem or on a moral high horse…..problem is bigotry…it is ugly..in any form…..and sadly it stops when people stop using stereotype catch-phases…Stex writes honest posts….and I agree on this nonsense of some baseball writers bias for voting…… Steroids were created by baseball…and so were the writers…

By: cur68

cur68 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:49:17 +0000

Hell, I took a Ghostbusters quote literally the other day. The shame still lingers.

By: stex52

stex52 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:47:38 +0000

Thanks for the spirited defense, Cur. Of course, we’ve been talking a bit longer.

There is a tendency to get literal with readings on this blog. Occasionally I shoot first myself.

Not all of our jokes work.

By: stex52

stex52 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:43:49 +0000

Hey Giants, alang,

I was trying to parody the comments of conservative commentators from the election itself. SARCASM is not the right term, but I used it as being common here. If you think I give a rat’s about a guy being gay or liberal, then you haven’t been reading my comments. Cur understood.

Sorry the joke didn’t work. But go back and read pre-election comments and at least see what I was trying to mock.

By: thereisaparty

thereisaparty — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:27:11 +0000

9. Henry Aaron … best offensive year came in his age 36 season

By: cur68

cur68 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:25:34 +0000

Hey, hey, hey, give South Texas a break, eh? You have but to take a casual peruse of the internet to see that this comment by Stex is spot on. Many people mock and dismiss Nate Silver just this way and they themselves deserve to be mocked for it. I’d like to see all this outrage trotted out for someone who’s actually serious as opposed to someone who’s pointing out that this is the sort of thing that gets said about Nate Silver all the time. I’ve seen a goodly number of “bluegays” comments written by trolls on this blog and not one of the worpress handles I see finger waving at Stex here has ever said anything. Lets just ease off our moral high horse and back onto our soap boxes a bit, eh folks?

By: kirkvanhouten

kirkvanhouten — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:24:49 +0000

…no matter how much we may disagree on WAR, I’m proud that we both share a mutual hatred of Jon Heyman.

By: brewcrewfan54

brewcrewfan54 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:22:13 +0000

And my apologies for doing a terrible job of proofreading.

By: butchhuskey

butchhuskey — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:16:53 +0000

I knew that Rafael Palmeiro was using performance enhancing drugs before his failed steroid test.

After all, the guy did a bunch of commercials for Viagra.

By: kirkvanhouten

kirkvanhouten — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:16:51 +0000

Excellent point. Ripken certainly did use steroids. You know who else? Gehrig.

It all seems so obvious now

By: brewcrewfan54

brewcrewfan54 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:16:24 +0000

Hey Craig or Aaron or any ofthe other Hardballtalk bloggers there’s a noce article bu the Brewers beat writer Tom Hardricourt explaining his Hall of Fame voting process over in the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel website. Might be a noce articlefor you guys to take a look st and write up about. I dont nexessarily agree with some of his reasoning but at least he’s transparent about it.

By: husky2score

husky2score — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:14:40 +0000

You had me reading your post until you said Babe Ruth and Nolan Ryan. If that is the case, you add Cal Ripken for having too long of a consecutive games streak? Come on.

By: alang3131982

alang3131982 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:13:13 +0000

i dont think sarcasm tags work when you want to use “gay” as an offensive term….liberal sure….but come on.

By: cur68

cur68 — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:10:39 +0000

Just to add some steam to your argument about Ruth and ‘roids you should look at this link:

http://www.baltimoreorless.com/2011/01/babe-ruth-injected-sheeps-testicles/

After you read that, you’ll never look at a set of sheep balls the same again . . . um . . . or something.