By Blaidd Drwg
Joe Posnanski, long suffering Royals fan and quite possibly the best and most intelligent baseball writer on the planet, may have written the single best sarcastic piece on the Hall of Fame ever. You can find it here. If someone were ever stupid enough to put me in charge of a baseball team, Joe P. would be the first guy I would hire (and you won’t find a bigger Rob Neyer fan on the planet who isn’t related to him).
On an somewhat related note – why are arguably the 3 best baseball writers all Royals fans – Neyer, Posnanski and Rany Jazayerli? I could chalk it off to the suffering in a small market, but then why the hell can’t I name a single guy who writes about baseball and is a Pirates fan?
Joe P. is an impressive writer who spends a lot of time backing up his arguments. His latest piece however is sarcasm at its best (for those of you who know the Bad Wolf, you know he loves his sarcasm). Joe has as very logical argument for redefining the Hall of Fame, renaming it the Willie Mays Hall of Fame for the following reason:
I cannot tell you how many times in my life, much less in the last month, I have received emails that basically say something like: “Willie Mays — now THAT is a Hall of Famer. That is who I have in mind when I think of the Hall of Fame, not (Player X) who you wrote about.”
So, that’s my mission here — to create The Willie Mays Hall of Fame.
The article is written in typical Joe P. fashion – he gives the criteria for selection, the rules of the game and then goes about methodically analyzing the data.
I won’t tell you the conclusion, but lets just say I agree with him. If you are a baseball fan, or just a fan of sarcastic journalism, you should read the article.
On a side note – Coltrane – we need to add Joe P. to the blogroll.
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