~2019 MLB Thread~

[ELA]

helluva bunch of 3 baggers

Dude didn't understand launch angles

[FearlessF]

and he was obviously faster w/o the shoes

[CWSooner]

Reading further in the Wikipedia article, I see that he spent most of his 1st 3 years in pro ball tearing up the minors.  10 games with the Philadelphia A's in 1908-09, 20 games with the Cleveland Naps in 1910.  He also spent 1918 working in a shipyard because of the war.  His official rookie season was 1911, so he only spent 9 years in the majors.  And his final season (1920) was cut short by suspension when the Black Sox scandal broke.

[Hawkinole]

It would be cool to pass a petition to admit Shoeless Joe Jackson to the Hall of Fame at the Field of Dreams game this summer between the White Sox and Yankees. For those who haven't seen the movie (you don't belong in this thread if you haven't seen it), Shoeless Joe was the ghost player featured in the movie with a speaking role.

The Field of Dreams is just 20 miles down the road from me.

If only I could win the lottery and score two tickets. I'd furnish the clipboards for the petitions and pass them down the aisles.

[FearlessF]

I've been to the field of dreams

Was on the way back from a Husker game in Madison, the field was snow covered

I have a powerball ticket in my pocket.  If it hits big, I'll buy the two tickets for you.

[Hawkinole]

I have a powerball ticket in my pocket.  If it hits big, I'll buy the two tickets for you.

 Cool. I'll take you up on that offer.

I have read that MLB, or perhaps the White Sox, since it is a White Sox home game, will run a ticket lottery for the general public. After the celebrities and local officials get their tickets, the local ghost players get their tickets, the players' families  and coaches' families get their ticket allocations, and after people put in for the lottery from all over the country, few of us locals have much chance to win in the ticket lottery.

[OrangeAfroMan]

doesn't make any sense to me


a person's actions while they were alive don't change when they die

I'm not saying he should be inducted because of any other reasons than

1 - the ban was a lifetime one (his lifetime ended), and
2 - his play warrants it
.
It's not a heartfelt plea, it's the punishment was adhered to and has since expired.

[FearlessF]

the hall of fame is an honor of acheivements while folks were alive

if you want to allow a dead man to be able to be employed by the league, I'm fine with that.

[OrangeAfroMan]

It's the same way a bunch of them got in, posthumously.  

[Hawkinole]

Kennesaw Mountain Landis, ruled this way:

"Regardless of the verdict of the juries, no player that throws a ball game; no player that undertakes or promises to throw a ball game; no player that sits in a conference with a bunch of crooked players and gamblers where the ways and means of throwing games are planned and discussed and does not promptly tell his club about it, will ever play professional baseball. . . regardless of the verdict of the juries, baseball is entirely competent to protect itself against crooks, both inside and outside the game."

Seems as if the ban was from playing. This is what I found anyway. Maybe there is more to the ruling. 

[OrangeAfroMan]

And not to mention sportswriters are some of the most vindictive, petty people on the face of the planet.  

[FearlessF]

sportswriters are well known for being drunken and bitter

[MarqHusker]

and in my view one of the worst dressed professions I've experienced. 

[FearlessF]

disheveled appearance - looking at you Sam McKewon!