Bill King denied HOF yet again :(
by mikev on Oct 7, 2008 2:16 PM PDT
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PrintI guess I'm not surprised. We didn't do enough, apparently.
King left out of final vote for Frick Award
I am, to put it midly, not happy. It's an absolute travesty that King isn't even getting considered, but it's flat out INSULTING that he's not in the Top 10 yet again.
Meh. At least we'll get to see Rickey enter the Hall this year, even though I'm not expecting it to be unanimous.
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How disappointing!
What happened to the power of AN?
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Man
I’ve been out of it. I didn’t even realize that voting was open. Damn!
by Tyler Bleszinski on Oct 7, 2008 8:07 PM PDT up reply actions
there are just not enough hardcore a’s fans out there.
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05
We just didn't organize the vote like we did last year..
Lesson learned.
Too bad – I was hoping to go to HOF to celebrate both Rickey and Bill.
"And sometimes, when it seems like all hope is gone, Life tosses you a special gift of a baseball game" . 7/10/08 BaseBallGirl headline
Internet voting is pretty meaningless
In that it says nothing about the quality of the broadcaster being voted for. It’s pretty obvious, for example, that the Nuxall total for ‘07 was the product of someone’s intermnet vote-bot program.
The internet piece furnishes 3 of the 10 finalists, and after that it’s all up to the actual HOF selectors. What’s really sad is that the “experts” who select finalists on merit haven’t seen fit to add Bill King to the ballot. Even sadder—it’ll probably get worse as time passes.
Also sad—the Blez comment above, the lack of Bill King votes, and what those things say about where we are now on the AN continuum.
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by FreeSeatUpgrade on Oct 8, 2008 12:11 PM PDT reply actions
The "AN continuum"?
Huh?
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
I'm loathe to dwell on this point
but what I mean is from early days of bold innovation to the heady days of high traffic, high quality, and high creativity, to the current period of decline—good info still, but narrower, less creative, and with less robust community participation.
As a fan of both Happy Days and Gravity’s Rainbow, I don’t like the arc I think I see.
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by FreeSeatUpgrade on Oct 9, 2008 9:03 AM PDT up reply actions
I got the point
I see what you see, and I haven’t been around nearly as long. Since it was Blez’ intention (I believe) to create a “bar atmosphere”, you are surely going to get all different types of folks here.
AN is not exactly broken, so I’m not sure if fixing is necessary, but a little fine-tuning can’t hurt. For example, I still think that only the front-page writers should break the latest news, that posts sit in the rec section way too long, and that some “recommended” posts are downright silly (like SportySpice telling everyone to pay up for Korach’s foundation).
But back to your point (sort of). I think that the more creative, knowledgebale types have become turned off by the random (being kind) posts that appear here. Now I am no one to suggest that one post is “better” than another. And surely everyone here has a right to post (it is also our right to read or not read them). But maybe AN needs to be broken off in tiers like someone’s ideal Hall-of-Fame (I am now confused if that was indeed monkeyball or Bill Simmons), so you have hard-core discussions in one area, your teary-eyed nostalgic tpyes in another, your groupies in another, and so on. Kind of like a real bar.
And every once in a while- threads and DLD’s- we all mingle and if it’s really crazy, some karaoke might even take place.
I'm here to talk about the past.
I Rec'd the Korach Foundation post so it wouldn't disappear as quickly
I could turn around and say I don’t think the DLDs should be Rec’d because there’s one of them every day as it is.
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Makes sense actually
And I have long thought that DLD’s should have its own “room”. But again, just one person’s opinion.
I'm here to talk about the past.
I think that some DLD's deserve to be rec'd
Such as Schmifty’s hazing one— But on the whole, I agree with you. A lot of rec’d posts disappear because of DLD’s
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It certainly can't be for lack of exposure
I mean the guy worked side-by-side with Lon Simmons for so many years, who happens to be in the Hall. Not sure how long he had to wait though.
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