Tuesday Halolinks: Voting For Hall of Fame and Bobbleheads

As much as the hall/voters likes to say there is a morality clause, there isn’t. The hall is about the who were the best players or made the biggest impact on the game.

I thought it was cool when they showed it to me in the store. After trying it out for the first day or two, I kicked it the curb and went back to typing.

SwiftKey is the one and only app from my old Android phone that I miss on my iPhone.

The only app. Period.

The beauty of SwiftKey is that it anticipates the next word you’re going to type and suggests it before you even begin to type it. There there are combinations of words which are commonly used in phrases, the logic in SwiftKey knows this, anticipates a word which commonly follows the word you first typed, and suggests it in a bubble above the keyboard (NOT on the text area itself). If that is the word you were going to type next, just tap the bubble and the word enters the text. Often, you can find yourself tapping 3-7 words in a row without needing to type any of them. Once you get your sea legs, it is so damn fast it is scary.

caught dead to rights doing it, it’s okay, people will forgive you.

That’s life.

Until then we will pretend like all these hits didn’t happen.

bookend a word with asterisks & it gets bolded

Look at Arod and Salmon for an example of why steroids were a problem. Its been suggested that Arod started taking in high school. So if he doesnt start taking steroids, and competed equally with all the other kids, does he still get drafted #1? Who gets drafted instead? Where does Arod end up? who missed out on an opportunity because some 16 year old was taking steroids? Clearly they move down fast- from the majors to minors to college to high school- people looking for an edge to a multi-million dollar career.

Because Salmon is facing pitchers who can throw harder and recover faster than ever before, he doesnt get as many fat pitches to hit. Instead of being an amazing hitter through his 20’s and into his 30’s, and a good hitter through his 30’s his career fades quickly and never reaches the heights it could have/ should have.

Its not as easy as saying that well lets just take them based on their numbers because some guys who were actually really great baseball players but didnt take steroids look like they were just so so.

Obviously

Only 6300 or so votes…do they think Peter is just that more deserving?

OR ARE THEY RACIST?!?!?!?!

It could be sponsored by Howard’s. Thing practically writes itself.

The Vladdy bobblehead was on the shelves against the right wall, towards the back, top shelf.

I got wood.

I, I mean my friends, have had Monsters and Red Bulls and Amp (product placement, folks), and its not even freakin close. Furthermore, while there evidence that steroid abuse over an extended period of time is harmful, I know from my 1960s and 70s school drug education that speed kills.

This is all about the records. But after coast-to-coast trips, day-after-night games, and general f’ing around night after night, how many records would have been set in the first place without the aid of mother’s little helper?

I think that this argument is lame. What happens when we find out St. Derek took roids five years after his automatic induction? Gonna have a recall? Just factor it in. Maybe Mighty Mark doesn’t get in even WITH the steroids, but Bonds? Roger (that one pains me…what a dick)? Those guys are in…after they do the time.

But they didn’t so now I look at why the Red Sox collapsed. That collapse was more than injuries, and Im not sure Lackey and his 5+ ERA would have stopped it, Buchholz might have but I dont know how great he was.

What I saw happen to the Red Sox on the NESN broadcasts (which I watch to appease my lack of ESPN Angels broadcasts) was a bunch of highly paid guys who quit on the team. It was a clubhouse questioning Youk’s dedication to the team while “rehabbing” his injury. It was a team that couldn’t come up with a big hit in the big moment and had a pitching staff that forced the offense into those moments.

This angels team is built around a pitching staff and offensive style that doesnt always require the big hit and will be able to deal with offensive slump in a waythat the Red Sox couldn’t. It is also a team that has alot of comraderie, many of these guys were on the 09 team which was an emotional and successful team. Many others came up together and are a support net for each other. Even outsiders buy into this mentality, Torii Hunter has always been a mentor for Howie (or at least he thinks he is), in addition to him asking Soth to start Pete. I could never see Crawford or Drew ask Francona to start Reddick or Kalish, and they didn’t.

The other thing I saw was the promos on NESN, a channel owned by the Sox which talked about a team built for October, a team that seemed invincible.

I havent seen that come from the Angels yet, the Angels have increased both talent and payroll over the past 3 months, but they have not set the outlandish expectations, at least not publically.

Even if that’s the case, you still have an unfair advantage over the monitored half. It makes you appear to be a better student if the cheating goes unnoticed, but really you’re no better than the average joe.