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Friday, February 25, 2005

The Hall of Fame Rejection Committee For reasons passing understanding, Buffalo sports-talk hosts Mike Schopp and the Bulldog have been eliminating three baseball players from the Hall of Fame each day, with the intent of eventually arriving at a single Hall of Famer. It's one of those sports-talk-radio things that makes sense while you're listening to the show, but when you're linking it on SportsFilter, you're hard-pressed to come up with a post explaining why it makes sense at all. Hmmmmm....

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It must need some serious explanation, what with Ruth not on the list of remaining players.

I think I can guarantee it's not meant to be taken seriously.

I think it'd be neat to have players cut from the HoF. "Smith! Yer haven't been pullin' yer weight 'round here! Yer CUT!"

This reminds me of the pyramid plan of the Sports Guy - different levels for HOFers. Five or six of them - your Ozzie Smiths, and Brooks Robinsons on one... All the way up to the absolute peak with Ruth, Cobb, Mays, etc. I like it in theory, but then it just serves to being the debate even further - not just who gets in, but waht is their value related to the rest of the Hall? If nothing else, it sounds hella fun.

DrJohnEvans: On the show itself, when they get to the HoF Rejection Committee segment, they play a snippet from that Simpsons episode when Homer's the youth football coach -- Homer has a voiceover during the credits of that episode, telling everybody they're cut. "Oooooh, there's so many cuts here, I'll just put up a list and you can find your name...."

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