Who's a Hall of Famer?

[PenPho]

Let's be honest - if anybody here was given the right to vote for the HoF, could you resist penciling in Neifi's name, just for shits and giggles?

Yep.  Pretty easily.  In fact, I probably wouldn't even think of doing it, much less thinking it was funny.

The very idea that I would do that is absurd.

It's a good thing you guys won't get to vote then. Because I would totally do that.

The very idea that anyone who has ever posted here more than once would actually get to vote for the HoF is absurd.

Poor Len.

True.  Len not getting a vote is further proof that the system is rigged.  I'm going to protest this unfair system by voting for Jose Macias. 

Intrepid Reader: TDubbs

They don't allow pedophiles who teach children and then have sex with those same children they are supposed to teach to vote for the Hall of Fame.

[Canadouche]

Let's be honest - if anybody here was given the right to vote for the HoF, could you resist penciling in Neifi's name, just for shits and giggles?

Yep.  Pretty easily.  In fact, I probably wouldn't even think of doing it, much less thinking it was funny.

The very idea that I would do that is absurd.

It's a good thing you guys won't get to vote then. Because I would totally do that.

The very idea that anyone who has ever posted here more than once would actually get to vote for the HoF is absurd.

Poor Len.

True.  Len not getting a vote is further proof that the system is rigged.  I'm going to protest this unfair system by voting for Jose Macias. 

Intrepid Reader: TDubbs

They don't allow pedophiles who teach children and then have sex with those same children they are supposed to teach to vote for the Hall of Fame.

TDubbs would never have said that.  There are too many words in that sentence.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Mickey Mantel is a Hall of Famer...



... but he's no cock-sucker.

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[Gilgamesh]

Mickey Mantel is a Hall of Famer...



... but he's no cock-sucker.

Verified by Snopes.

That is amazing.  Absolutely amazing.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

I'm reading the Mantle biogrpahy right now.  This fits right in.

[Internet Apex]

I'm reading the Mantle biogrpahy right now.  This fits right in.

My dad gave me the same book. I won't be reading it until baseball season starts. Maybe we can sit down and discuss it over a pile of blow sometime.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

I'm reading the Mantle biogrpahy right now.  This fits right in.

My dad gave me the same book. I won't be reading it until baseball season starts. Maybe we can sit down and discuss it over a pile of blow sometime.

Great idea.

[ChuckD]

Let's be honest - if anybody here was given the right to vote for the HoF, could you resist penciling in Neifi's name, just for shits and giggles?

Yep.  Pretty easily.  In fact, I probably wouldn't even think of doing it, much less thinking it was funny.

The very idea that I would do that is absurd.

It's a good thing you guys won't get to vote then. Because I would totally do that.

The very idea that anyone who has ever posted here more than once would actually get to vote for the HoF is absurd.

Poor Len.

True.  Len not getting a vote is further proof that the system is rigged.  I'm going to protest this unfair system by voting for Jose Macias. 

And yet you scoff at a hypothetical 20-year extrapolation of Kosuke Fukudome? Absurd!

[ChuckD]

Mickey Mantel is a Hall of Famer...



... but he's no cock-sucker.

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That is amazing.  Absolutely amazing.

*The All-American Boy completely makes it.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Mickey Mantel is a Hall of Famer...



... but he's no cock-sucker.

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I'm reading the Mantle biogrpahy right now.  This fits right in.

My dad gave me the same book. I won't be reading it until baseball season starts. Maybe we can sit down and discuss it over a pile of blow sometime.

Ha. 

This appears on page 300. 

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Ha. 

This appears on page 300. 

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The response attributed to the Mick is indeed a real one, as detailed by Mantle biographer Jane Leavy:

In 1973, when the Yankees celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the House That Ruth Built, the public relations department sent a questionnaire to former players.

[Yankees publicity director] Marty Appel, who crafted the questionnaire, and received and edited the infamous reply (substituting [Mantle's ninth-inning home run that won Game 3 of the 1964 World Series for the Yankees]), gave the original document to Barry Halper, the minority team owner and memorabilia maven who would later sell his vast collection for more than $30 million. The X-rated writing sample circulated through the baseball underground for years before emerging into the LED glare of the World Wide Web. Appel was appalled. Mantle was just trying to shock the Yankees' straitlaced PR chief, Bob Fishel, he said.

Absent Mantle's impeccable 1930s Palmer Method penmanship, the asterisks, and the appellation, it's just another example of locker room crude. The self-mocking touches turn it into something altogether different and far more interesting — a send-up of Yankee grandiosity and a self-knowing appraisal. Who knew he had a sense of irony?

"That may be the best thing I've ever heard about him," said Robert Pinsky, the bard of Red Sox partisans, and the former poet laureate of the United States. "He's saying, 'I am not going to be your all-American boy.'"

...

Leavy, Jane.   The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood.
        New York: Harper, 2010.   ISBN 0-060-88352-9   (pp. 300-301).

[JD]

Ha. 

This appears on page 300. 

Verified by Snopes.

The response attributed to the Mick is indeed a real one, as detailed by Mantle biographer Jane Leavy:

In 1973, when the Yankees celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the House That Ruth Built, the public relations department sent a questionnaire to former players.

[Yankees publicity director] Marty Appel, who crafted the questionnaire, and received and edited the infamous reply (substituting [Mantle's ninth-inning home run that won Game 3 of the 1964 World Series for the Yankees]), gave the original document to Barry Halper, the minority team owner and memorabilia maven who would later sell his vast collection for more than $30 million. The X-rated writing sample circulated through the baseball underground for years before emerging into the LED glare of the World Wide Web. Appel was appalled. Mantle was just trying to shock the Yankees' straitlaced PR chief, Bob Fishel, he said.

Absent Mantle's impeccable 1930s Palmer Method penmanship, the asterisks, and the appellation, it's just another example of locker room crude. The self-mocking touches turn it into something altogether different and far more interesting — a send-up of Yankee grandiosity and a self-knowing appraisal. Who knew he had a sense of irony?

"That may be the best thing I've ever heard about him," said Robert Pinsky, the bard of Red Sox partisans, and the former poet laureate of the United States. "He's saying, 'I am not going to be your all-American boy.'"

...

Leavy, Jane.   The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood.
        New York: Harper, 2010.   ISBN 0-060-88352-9   (pp. 300-301).

There's no way I'm reading a book some chick wrote.  And how 'bout the group of queers in the Yankees bullpen back then?  I guess ya gotta keep your star happy, but, still...

[CT III]

Richard Dent.

http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2011/02/bears-richard-dent-pro-football-hall-of-fame.html

[Internet Apex]

Reggie Miller

This is as hilarious as it is wrong.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/The-Basketball-Hall-of-Fame-turns-its-back-on-Re?urn=nba-323404

[Slaky]

Reggie Miller

This is as hilarious as it is wrong.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/The-Basketball-Hall-of-Fame-turns-its-back-on-Re?urn=nba-323404

It is a bit of both. I hated Reggie - but come on. The man is a legend.