Another suspension
Meanwhile, two voting committees will consider the ballots of 10 managers/umpires and 10 executives/pioneers for the Hall of Fame’s Veterans Committee election next year. A candidate must receive at least 75 percent of the votes, and the results will be announced at 11 a.m. Monday at the winter meetings in Nashville.
The eligible managers include Davey Johnson. Putting your Orioles bias aside, should he be elected?Billy Martin also is on the ballot, and it would be a shame if he’s excluded. Few managers have been better than Martin, whose off-field indescretions shouldn’t be taken into account. I’m pretty sure he never bet on the Yankees…or the Tigers, Twins or Athletics.
Former Pirates manager Danny Murtaugh also is on the ballot. If it wasn’t for the ’71 World Series, I’d have nothing but love for the guy.Here are the other managers under consideration: Gene Mauch, Billy Southworth and Dick Williams. Gotta admit, I never heard of Southworth, who died in 1969. He compiled a 1,770-1,044 record and won two World Series and four pennants in 13 seasons with the Cardinals and Boston Braves. I should have known about him.
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ESPN is reporting Mark Prior of the Cubs could be available...Does Andy Mac try to bring in another piece of his Cub puzzle over on a flier that Prior's arm doesn't fly off?
Posted by: JTK | November 27, 2007 6:36 PM
Re: Murtaugh....
What's that about putting your personal bias aside? Not two graphs later.....
Well, I don't blame you. People here on the west coast find it truly insane that I'm still pissed about the 69 WS or that Irsay stole the team.
"Get over it," they say. "Put it behind you," they coo.
Yeah sure. That's like when you were 13 and your mother told you not to think about sex.
Impossible.
What does it say about the imperfect creatures we are that the memory of failure is stronger than that of success?
Or, to paraphrase Percy Mayfield, "Show the world how to get along/Peace will enter when all hate is gone/And if it's not asking too much/Please let the O's get over .500 before I die."
Or something like that.
Get an old person to explain that to you.
Old blues references are tough.
Posted by: tvdpdx | November 27, 2007 7:03 PM
What do you think the asking price is on Mark Prior? If he's cheap enough, I think the O's should jump on him. Exspecially since their favorite trade partners are offering him.
A lot of injury prone players have come on later in their career. If we can revive corey patterson, we can revive Prior.
Posted by: Jon | November 28, 2007 2:22 AM
Whitey Herzog is also on the Hall of Fame ballot. Few managers had a greater impact on the game during their time as Herzog, whose Runnin' Redbirds of the '80s consistently upset more highly ranked oppenents, including the Mets.
Herzog won one WS and could easily have won two more. Thanks, Don Denkinger and the HHH Metrodome.
Posted by: RevJMP | November 28, 2007 10:55 AM
Irsay stole the team? Irsay OWNED the team and the socialist workers state of maryland and the city of baltimore tried to steal it from him through eminent domain. Or do you believe it is a coincidence the team left town right after the Maryland legislature passed its eminet domain resolution?
Posted by: lucky horseshoe | November 28, 2007 7:14 PM
That was Curtis Mayfield, not Percy Mayfield.
Percy pulled for the Giants.
Posted by: j. roberts | November 28, 2007 10:13 PM