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Nigel Tufnel Perennial All-Star

Nigel Tufnel

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Not sure. I think they said that Biggio was 39 votes short. Might have made the difference for Morris too. That's inexcusable for the writers...

Looks like there were 569 ballots and Biggio was named on 388 of them. So there would have needed to be 52 or more blank ballots, which seems like a lot.

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Can_of_corn Hangout Grand Counsel

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oh my..

Hi, I’m Mike Piazza.

Do you remember me? Normally I wouldn’t ask that because I seem to remember being quite famous a few years ago, but it seems like several hundred people whose business it was to follow my career have forgotten me, and I just don’t know how to deal with that. I mean, I know there were better players than me, but I hit .308/.377/.545 for my career with 427 homers in 16 seasons. My career OPS+ was 143. The next three catchers on that list whose careers have already ended are Mickey Cochrane, Bill Dickey and Johnny Bench, and they’re way behind. I played in the World Series. Everyone said when I played that I was heading to the Hall of Fame.

But today I got just 57.8% of the vote, and at the risk of sounding arrogant, I think that’s kinda light, don’t you?

It’s almost as if someone is holding something against me and my Hall of Fame candidacy apart from what I did on the field. I know that’s possible! It happens to a lot of players these days. But (again, sorry for being narcissistic) I Googled myself and I couldn’t find a single article written which presents any facts which would reasonably lead someone to withhold their vote. I wasn’t named on any lists or outed in anyone’s book. There’s just … nothing.

It’s almost as if 42.8% of the Hall of Fame electorate has been talking about me behind my back, too cowardly to come out and accuse me of something, yet holding that something against me all the same. I’m just a simple man from Pennsylvania and I don’t necessarily understand how everything in the world works, but that strikes me as kinda wrong.

Sorry if that’s rude, but it beats the other explanation I have in mind: that 42.8% of the BBWAA are blithering idiots and wouldn’t know a Hall of Fame catcher if Carlton Fisk fell out of the sky, landed on their face and started to wiggle.

Thanks for your time.

Edit-

I guess I should have added a disclaimer stating it isn't actually him.

Sorry for any confusion folks.

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waroriole Hangout Grand Counsel

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Wait, is it actually him? I thought it was satire. The author's byline, if you click on it, leads to all articles by Craig Calcaterra...

Edit: Still awesome if satire...

Kind of shady by Calcaterra if so since the author of the article is listed as Piazza.

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Can_of_corn Hangout Grand Counsel

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Wait, is it actually him? I thought it was satire. The author's byline, if you click on it, leads to all articles by Craig Calcaterra...

Edit: Still awesome if satire...

Of course he didn't. Hence my comment about OPS+.

Still great tho.

Hardballtalk doesn't get scoops like that, they do mostly opinion and collection of other sources.

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