Yeah, I remember that part. Left it out only because I imagine most BBHOF voters aren’t child molesters. But most are petty and holier than thou.
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I was playing at No Findlaying Up last year with @jgolf1 and we were talking about Pickett as it was right after the draft. I’m paraphrasing but my basic point was the dude is probably going to Canton. Because it’d be a storybook career. From Pitt to the Steelers to the HOF. Because things like that happen to the Steelers all the fucking time. Luckiest franchise in sports. I’m not gonna kill this take as much as others because there’s no way he’s gonna suck on the Steelers. I will never be given that joy.
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You could have your rival team be the Packers and face 30 straight years of HOF QBs. Going from one talented dickbag of a QB that murders your franchise every time they play followed by an even more talented shithead of a QB who literally said “I still own you” and you can’t even argue.
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Did the team you hate win a game because a guy recovered Jerome Bettis’ goal line fumble but couldn’t run it all the way back because he was slowed down due to the fact that the night before the game his wife stabbed him in the knee?
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17 years later and I’m still not sure why Harper cut back inside there. I forgot he got stabbed by his wife, wild stuff.
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I could be worse. They only won 2 super bowls in those 30 years with probably 2 top 10 QBs of all time
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So many fans of bad teams should be angry at this sentence. Including me, who has never seen the Bears win a Super Bowl. But it is a tough look to only have two with those two guys back to back
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It’s a brave take, I know.
I had to read the rest of that bc of course the Baseball Writers Association issued a “member in good standing” statement. Unbelievable!
Also, RIP AJ Daulerio and Deadspin
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Patriots: Tuck Rule, not handing off to Marshawn Lynch, 28-3.
Brady Bonus: three second half picks in Lambeau but still winning the NFCCG
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Immaculate reception? Just cuz I wasn’t alive for it doesn’t mean it doesn’t count.
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“Listen, is he a bad guy? Maybe BUT he can write the hell out of an article” - BBWAA
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You left out “now watch this drive.”
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My overall issue with the BBWAA is it’s a group of hypocrites thinking they control the narrative of who was truly great at baseball.
Great players having their voting chances ruined if they weren’t nice to the media during their playing careers. Anyone involved or assumed to be involved with the steroid era blacklisted, unless of course you’re David Ortiz or BUD SELIG. Being a hitter for the Rockies means you need to have basically 150% the stats of other HoF players to be considered (Larry Walker).
None of it makes sense and trying to understand just makes your brain hurt.
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This is well said. I hate everything Curt Schilling says. But, he probably belongs in the HOF?
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One of my biggest pet peeves with the BWAA is the whole “If Willie Mays wasn’t a unanimous HOFer, then no one should be!” because that logic rewards racists of the past. If you didn’t vote for Mays, you only did so out of racist intent. But let’s (hypothetically) say you’re doing it because Joe DiMaggio wasn’t a unanimous HOFer or Babe Ruth wasn’t. Well then you’re rewarding stupid spiteful decisions of the past as well.
The BWAA is actually a lot better than it once was. It’s gotten younger (relatively) and smarter. But it’s still frustrating. I don’t particularly care for the eye test when it comes to steroids. I’m fine with discounting stats inflated by era, but the whole deal where guys like Jeff Bagwell got snubbed for a few years because of “suspicion” felt like something straight out of HUAC.
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Piazza is in that same category as Bagwell. Never tested positive but was a power hitter during that era so “he must be on it”.
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Think about how we feel! BRUTAL.
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Mahomes
Allen
Burrow
Herbert
Geno
Rodgers
Healthy Lamar
Healthy Tua
Kirk
Hurts
Trevor
Daniel Jones
Goff
Deshaun
Geno
Justin Fields
Dak
Carr
Mac Jones
Trubisky/pickett
Kyler
NYJ Qb
Cooper Rush
Russ Wilson
Davis Mills
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