HoF and HoS

Welp, you saw it here sports fans, Tilam and Thew correctly predicted Gwynn and Ripken into the MLB Hall of Fame. Pretty spot on with the rest of our discussion, with a few salient observations to make:

How the hell did Jose Canseco get 6 votes?
Come to think of it, how the FREAKING hell did Albert Belle get 19?!
Donnie Baseball got less than 10%, which is a surprise to me. I thought he'd get more, although if you miss by 10 votes or 100 votes, you still miss.
Goose Gossage didn't make it in, but he's only 20 votes shy...over time they will relent and he'll make it, and I believe deservedly so. But if Gossage gets in, why not Lee Smith?
Big Mac got less than 25% of the votes required - sad, in my opinion. Tim Kurkjian went on a rant on ESPN, stating many of the things we've said here about Mark McGwire. He started his rookie year off with 49 home runs, he's won a (2?) Gold Gloves at first base as a fielder, the man was a star from the beginning, he just got bigger. Does it turn 49 HR's into 70, being on 'roids? Maybe...IF he actually did them. I hope Big Mac gets in, but I'm a little disappointed at this juncture.

On the "haven't I beaten a dead horse enough?" front, an interesting article on the current state of Michelle Wie. I'm sure that if you read the article many of the statements they make will sound familiar...since I've penned many of them right here in this blog. No more outrage, no more rants against Wie, just the simple fact that at this point we are destroying the talent of a young athlete - in her mind and in the public's eye. I'd say that at this point, she's just a revenue/gate generator, people are just looking at her to fly high then crash and burn like Icarus. And that's sad, because she could, if focused on the proper sport, challenge the best, I'm fairly convinced of that.

And finally, in the blurred line between fantasy and reality, a scorpion stung a passenger on a United Airlines flight on the back of his right leg, just below the knee, then continued up that leg and down the other before getting him again in the shin. It wasn't what he was expecting on a flight from Chicago to Vermont...must have been one of those Blackhawks fans, they are particularly mean people...