Sammy Sosa to be on HOF ballot

Banedon · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:08 am

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Bonds, Clemens and Sosa are set to show up on the Hall ballot for the first time, with all sides eager to find out whether drug allegations will block the former stars from reaching the shrine.

Craig Biggio, Mike Piazza and Curt Schilling are certain to be among the other first-time eligibles. Jack Morris, Jeff Bagwell and Tim Raines are the top holdover candidates.

http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/ ... all-ballot

Anyone wanna guess what percentage he'll get?

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SouthSideRyan · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:09 am

Jack Morris can go [expletive] himself, that's all I know.

BeerHere · **Joined:** Fri Jun 13, 2003 8:42 am **Posts:** 4702

What do you have against Morris?

Nuts&Gum · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:32 am

Jeff Morris went on a multi-state kill-rampage in January of 1996.

SouthSideRyan · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:33 am

BeerHere wrote:

What do you have against Morris?

Latest in a long line of meathead ex-players who don't belong in the HOF who piss and moan until they're let in.

Nuts&Gum · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:36 am

Banedon wrote:

Quote:

Bonds, Clemens and Sosa are set to show up on the Hall ballot for the first time, with all sides eager to find out whether drug allegations will block the former stars from reaching the shrine.

Craig Biggio, Mike Piazza and Curt Schilling are certain to be among the other first-time eligibles. Jack Morris, Jeff Bagwell and Tim Raines are the top holdover candidates.

http://espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/story/_/ ... all-ballot

Anyone wanna guess what percentage he'll get?

ONE MILLION PERCENT.

In my heart.

sneakypower · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:37 am

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leade ... reer.shtml
the career ERA+ leaderboard- go ahead and try to find Jack Morris on there

jersey cubs fan · **Joined:** Mon Apr 09, 2007 12:38 pm **Posts:** 35150

SouthSideRyan wrote:

BeerHere wrote:

What do you have against Morris?

Latest in a long line of meathead ex-players who don't belong in the HOF who piss and moan until they're let in.

Leave Santo out of this.

Cubswin11 · **Joined:** Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:17 pm **Posts:** 5543

How many votes/what % did McGwire get? I bet Sosa gets at least half the votes/percentage McGwire had.

Edit: He got 112 votes which was just over 19%. I'd guess Sosa gets around 50-60 votes, so around 10% +/-

sneakypower · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:43 am

jersey cubs fan wrote:

SouthSideRyan wrote:

BeerHere wrote:

What do you have against Morris?

Latest in a long line of meathead ex-players who don't belong in the HOF who piss and moan until they're let in.

Leave Santo out of this.

seasons with 5+ WAR

Santo: 7
Morris: 1

i'd say he was a little more rightly aggrieved

and you clearly didn't read the "don't belong in the HOF" part

Sammy's Boombox · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:51 am

I'd vote for him...

pitchcs · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:06 am

sneakypower wrote:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/earned_run_avg_plus_career.shtml
the career ERA+ leaderboard- go ahead and try to find Jack Morris on there

How did Dan Quisenberry pitch 1043.1 Innings and only K 379? Vs. 162 BB.

Slide Castro Slide · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:25 am

If Clemens and Bonds don't get in, to hell with the whole thing. And induct Shoeless Joe and Charlie Hustle while they're at it. Sports history is full of rogues and scumbag, many of which are in their respective HOF.

Castro's Spray Chart · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:04 pm

SouthSideRyan wrote:

Jack Morris can go [expletive] himself, that's all I know.

Haha, you beat me. If he gets in before any of those 3, I'm not sure the HOF can sink any lower.

KingCubsFan · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:12 pm

Without the steroid allegations, that would have been a great class. Now it's just Biggio (I'm assuming Schilling won't get in on his first try).

biittner77 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:30 pm

Castro's Spray Chart wrote:

SouthSideRyan wrote:

Jack Morris can go [expletive] himself, that's all I know.

Haha, you beat me. If he gets in before any of those 3, I'm not sure the HOF can sink any lower.

If they let in Andre Dawson there's no reason why they wouldn't let in Jack Morris too.

SouthSideRyan · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:36 pm

biittner77 wrote:

Castro's Spray Chart wrote:

SouthSideRyan wrote:

Jack Morris can go [expletive] himself, that's all I know.

Haha, you beat me. If he gets in before any of those 3, I'm not sure the HOF can sink any lower.

If they let in Andre Dawson there's no reason why they wouldn't let in Jack Morris too.

1. If you let in every player better than the worst player in the HOF, you'd have to add 100 guys.

2. Andre Dawson is more deserving than Jack Morris (though he also probably doesn't belong)

sneakypower · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:36 pm

Dawson: 61 WAR in 19 seasons
Morris: 38.5 WAR in 17 seasons

(discounting boundary seasons of little significance, for both)

biittner77 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:46 pm

I used Dawson more as an illustration of a player that was good but not great but got in due to the popular belief that he was a lot better than the stats suggest.

The type of person that would vote for Morris knows about only one war, the Spanish American, because he fought in it.

Castro's Spray Chart · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:49 pm

biittner77 wrote:

I used Dawson more as an illustration of a player that was good but not great but got in due to the popular belief that he was a lot better than the stats suggest.

The type of person that would vote for Morris knows about only one war, the Spanish American, because he fought in it.

Ken Tremendous would be proud.

rocket · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 3:26 pm

they should skip the vote and put sammy in a special "players who saved the game" wing in cooperstown.

bcl412 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:22 pm

The Hall of Fame sucks.

I mean, I'm sure the museum is awesome because baseball history is great but as far as who goes to the Hall of Fame, it's hard for me to care about that anymore.

XZero77 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:54 pm

sneakypower wrote:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/earned_run_avg_plus_career.shtml
the career ERA+ leaderboard- go ahead and try to find Jack Morris on there

But he didn't care about personal stats, he cared about winning. And that's what mattered. Just ask him.

rocket · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:57 pm

XZero77 wrote:

sneakypower wrote:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/earned_run_avg_plus_career.shtml
the career ERA+ leaderboard- go ahead and try to find Jack Morris on there

But he didn't care about personal stats, he cared about winning. And that's what mattered. Just ask him.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/pitching/piwper1.shtml

awesome. he's just as good as tom browning. and worse than carlos zambrano and freddy garcia.

Soul · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:06 pm

Guess: he'll get around 15-20% the first year.

I think when Bonds gets into the hall, the mindset changes a bit. It will be kind of interesting to see how much the voting changes (if at all) once the king roider of all time gets into the hall.

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