01-14-2009, 12:16 PM
<!--quoteo(post=11463:date=Jan 13 2009, 10:42 PM:name=Mikey)-->QUOTE (Mikey @ Jan 13 2009, 10:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->I liked Dale Murphy.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
If you subscribe to the theory that since ______ is in, then _________ should be, Rice getting in opens the doors wider to a large group of players from the mid 70s to the late 80s. Murphy and Dawson, previously more outside looking in, but with a chance, move up in probability.
Then again, this must just be the east cost media thing. Hawk played in Montreal for a long time, in obscurity, and very well may never get a break. I'm guessing he, like Rice, gets in later in his eligibility. Murph is more a ? for me - but who knows? I hope this still keeps guys like Mattingly, Edgar Martinez and Harold Baines out.
I hate the watering down of the HOF. My HOF would be much smaller than it is today.
If you subscribe to the theory that since ______ is in, then _________ should be, Rice getting in opens the doors wider to a large group of players from the mid 70s to the late 80s. Murphy and Dawson, previously more outside looking in, but with a chance, move up in probability.
Then again, this must just be the east cost media thing. Hawk played in Montreal for a long time, in obscurity, and very well may never get a break. I'm guessing he, like Rice, gets in later in his eligibility. Murph is more a ? for me - but who knows? I hope this still keeps guys like Mattingly, Edgar Martinez and Harold Baines out.
I hate the watering down of the HOF. My HOF would be much smaller than it is today.