Cincinnati Reds
BREAKING: North Carolina's State Board of Elections has wrapped up its fraud investigation and, in a stunning upset, declared the winner of its 9th Congressional District to be Harold Baines.
RT @robneyer: Let's be frank: The elections of Jack Morris, Lee Smith, and (especially) Harold Baines are fully intended by voters to troll everyone who believes in objective analysis. They've lost power everywhere but here, but by God they're gonna use it. Embarrassing to Hall (or should be).
RT @Enquirer: Ex-Reds manager Lou Piniella misses Baseball Hall of Fame election by one vote https://t.co/LJS11XwQMV
Amazing. So happy NBC saved this show.
Not to be dramatic, but this is going to be the best 95 seconds OF. YOUR. LIFE.
#Brooklyn99 makes the leap to @NBC Thursday, January 10. https://t.co/6J7qUusP7w
Ex-Reds manager Lou Piniella misses Baseball Hall of Fame election by one vote https://t.co/LJS11XwQMV
RT @GaryParrishCBS: We now live in a world where Harold Baines is in the Hall of Fame and Barry Bonds is not.
RT @TBTimes_Sports: Tampa native and former Devil Rays manager Lou Piniella fell one vote short of election to Baseball's Hall of Fame. @baseballhall @TB_Times @TBTimes_Rays #Rays #Yankees #Mariners #Cubs #Reds https://t.co/0srzdrZDko
Let's point out the obvious here. The Dolphins don't pull off this amazing play if they're wearing their newest uniform set. @UniWatch
Yes, most every argument that says 'Harold Baines really isn't a Hall of Famer' has merit - especially by WAR - but the one number that screams it loudest to me is this:
He never once got more than 6.1% of the BBWAA vote when eligible before. I mean, come on.
The baseball Hall of Fame is becoming juuuust mediocre enough that the Reds will probably sign it to a 2-year guaranteed contract to be a 'veteran bench bat.'
I’m glad, considering what the Mets are likely asking, but this still made me laugh.
ICYMI, The #Reds Hot Stove League Show from Wednesday Evening
https://t.co/5R1FV6NBsy
RT @WhoDeyJen: @EvilAndyDalton HORRIBLE CALL! no other way to say it..just HORRIBLE!
Scream this from the rooftops.
I'll say this much: the Hall of Fame having a system that gets Harold Baines elected while still insisting on the ten-man ballot for the BBWAA is inexcusable.
The players might, but the owner doesn’t.
I hope it’s empty.
Proud of all the @Bengals fans who made the trip to LA to support our guys! Let’s pack PBS next week please. These players deserve it! https://t.co/PU8YWt7Kqb
RT @polverine_15: @NFL @NFLOfficiating that was a complete BS call on Driskel's TD run. If that was Brady, Ben, or Brees the TD would stand and we all know it. That is the dumbest rule ever, and I am willing to bet that is the only time it's been called this year.
@EvilAndyDalton @CincyProblems
RT @Enquirer: Former Cincinnati Reds pitcher Lee Smith elected to Baseball Hall of Fame on Veterans ballot https://t.co/v1WA9IYUJc https://t.co/b9B52Etw1o
This is a wonderful question.
That said, if Kenny Lofton were eligible for this thing, and he got voted in, he'd probably be deserving and he didn't even make it past his first ballot. But yeah, Baines just doesn't cut it. It shouldn't even be a debate. I'm so confused.
Harold Baines was on the ballot as recently as 2011 and received 4.8% of the vote. It was his fifth straight year with a vote total below 10%. Why, just seven years later, do 16 people get to decide that he's now a Hall of Famer when 95.2% of the voters didn't think he was one?
Former Cincinnati Reds pitcher Lee Smith elected to Baseball Hall of Fame on Veterans ballot https://t.co/v1WA9IYUJc
RT @CincyDen: Ok so EVERY **** TIME a QB dives for a TD i want him called down short. Every single time @NFL https://t.co/wQ7dNgx83G
YES!!
Frankly, I cannot wait for one extra hour of 'how the shadows in the stadium impact batters' from all jillion of the 4 PM Sunday games in Dodger Stadium.
ESPN will start Sunday Night Baseball games an hour earlier next season, starting at 7pmET, according to this AP report. https://t.co/Z9MsbfIlmz
Albert Belle played 9 fewer seasons than Harold Baines did. He had more career WAR.
Results of the Today’s Game Era Ballot (12 votes needed for election): Lee Smith (16 votes, 100%); Harold Baines (12 votes, 75 percent); Lou Piniella (11 votes, 68.8%); Albert Belle, Joe Carter, Will Clark, Orel Hershiser, Davey Johnson, Charlie Manuel and George Steinbrenner < 5
