Have you always wanted to be a member of the BBWAA so you could vote for players for the Baseball Hall of Fame? Well now you can! Well, not really, but let's pretend!
We did this last year and I personally think we did a better job of voting than the actual BBWAA. Last year we would have voted in Mike Piazza, Barry Bonds, and Tim Raines with Craig Biggio, Roger Clemens, and Jeff Bagwell all coming within 5 votes of induction. The BBWAA voted in nobody. So all of the worthy candidates from last year are still on the ballot with some other big names like Greg Maddux, Frank Thomas, Tom Glavine, Mike Mussina, and Jeff Kent that make it very hard to choose only 10 candidates to receive a vote.
Here is a handy page at B-Ref with all of the candidates stats in one place: http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/hof_2014.shtml
Our ballot has 4 choices, Yes, No, Undecided, and No Answer. Only "Yes" votes count as a "Yes." Any other vote will count as a "No."
Our ballot technically allows for more than 10 "Yes" votes, but we will disqualify any ballot with more than 10 "Yes" votes, so please make sure you vote for no more than 10 candidates. You can vote for fewer. You can even be like one of those BBWAA dicks that turns in a blank ballot every year if you really want, but you can't vote for more than 10. We can not stress that enough.
Voting will be open until 11:59pm on Wednesday, December 11. So go and vote and encourage your friends to vote. If we do this right, the OV Hall of Fame might actually be a better place to visit than the real one and we here can finally all quit our day jobs and become tour guides. We'll publish the results as well as our own ballots and justifications shortly after.
Comments
I decided to sell my OV Vote to Deadspin.
mikeakaleroyQuote Reply
My pie is my pie
BerseliusQuote Reply
The fuck did I bake?!
GBTSQuote Reply
[img]http://www.labelvalue.com/images/absentee.gif[/img]
dmick89Quote Reply
Pie is pie man.
dmick89Quote Reply
So many good choices! Narrowing it down to 12 was tough.
Rizzo the RatQuote Reply
You want it to be one pie. You want it to be one pie. You want it to be one pie.
But it’s the other pie…
Like You CareQuote Reply
Barry Bonds should reach out to others like himself and start his own hall of fame. I’d rather go see a hall showcasing Bonds, Sosa, Pizza, Clemens, and others compared to the bullshit HOF they have now. I wonder if it would be able to out draw the “real” hall of fame.
EdwinQuote Reply
@ Edwin:
I’d go to this HOF just for the lulz. And because I like Bonds and Sosa.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ Edwin:
I have to say I’m no longer a fan of Pizza though. My son loves Pizza, but while in graduate school they kept serving us this really nasty cardboard-tasting Pizza from a place with terrible service and terrible ingredients (obviously). I ate it because I was a poor starving grad student and I can’t turn down free food, but now I stay as far away from Pizza as possible.
/cool story bro
Rice CubeQuote Reply
The names I had to leave off to get to only ten have made me very unhappy.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
I see you favor a strawberry rhubarb.
At night I do. And I keeps one in the oven, in case you ponderin’.
uncle daveQuote Reply
Stringer: That’s good. That’s like a rhubarb pie . Ain’t nobody got nuttin to say about a rhubarb pie. Apple? Bring a smile to your face. Peach? Shit, niggas are damn near eating up that mothafucka. But micemeat? Niggas get they bitch on. Get they blood complainin… but rhubarb? Nobody give a FUCK about rhubarb. Nobody remember rhubarb, and ya’ll niggas is giving me way too many rhubarb pies. What the fuck?!
WaLiQuote Reply
bagwel,l biggio, sosa, hurt, clemens ,maddux, glavine, piazza ,Rock, raffy
bubblesdachimpQuote Reply
Rice Cube wrote:
Like You CareQuote Reply
The list of people I’d like to vote in: I’ve got Biggio, Bagwell, Bonds, Clemens, Glavine, Kent, Maddux, Mussina, McGwire, Piazza, Raines, Schilling, Trammell, Thomas, Martinez, Walker, and Sosa. McGriff and Palmeiro I’m iffy on; I’d lean no on them, but neither would be bad choices.
From there, 10:
Biggio
Bagwell
Bonds
Clemens
Raines
Maddux
Mussina
Martinez
Trammel
Thomas
MishQuote Reply
Yo, yo, String, Poot’s pie did have the window sill!
Shut the fuck up, man! This nigga’s pie too unpalatable to have the fuckin’ window sill!
Like You CareQuote Reply
Mouzone: You’re the perfect bait. They will view you as conflicted. Your pastrophobia is so visceral.
Lamar: See that? I ain’t even walked in the place yet and you’re already calling me a piesucker.
Like You CareQuote Reply
@ Like You Care:
Do the chair know we gonna look like some pastry chefs out there?
GWQuote Reply
GW wrote:
Boulanger, I will bake yo pie for yeastin’ some dough…
Like You CareQuote Reply
Did the Pie have filling? Did it have a crust? Yes? Then it wasn’t us!
EdwinQuote Reply
Chris: We good?
Snoop: Yeah, man. Man said you wanna ice cakes, this here’s the Cuisinart. He mean Williams-Sonima, but he didn’t know it.
Chris: Hold a charge better?
Snoop: Man, fuck a charge, this here’s a gun powder-activated, 27-caliber, full auto, no kickback, cake-icin’ mayhem man. Shit right here’s tight. Word. Fuck this plastic bag bullshit, we can ice a couple motherfuckers with this right here.
Like You CareQuote Reply
Loxas is still sticking with his Shark traded before Winter Meetings prediction
http://www.chicagonow.com/loxas-factor/2013/11/samardzija-deal-likely-before-winter-meetings/
BerseliusQuote Reply
Edwin wrote:
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
BerseliusQuote Reply
I ALMOST bought a box of oatmeal cream pies today because of all the pie talk.
Then I realized I’m over the age of 6 and put it down and thanked myself for it.
AkabariQuote Reply
Only voted for Sosa. Cheers!
Jerome WaltonQuote Reply
@ Akabari:
That’s not from The Wire so your comment does not count toward your official OV Comment Total.
dmick89Quote Reply
@ dmick89:
That’s me fucked
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Berselius:
Orange guy also has info that Shark will probably be traded this offseason
http://www.csnchicago.com/cubs/source-99-percent-cubs-samardzija-will-be-moved-opening-day
BerseliusQuote Reply
This look like grasshopper pie, motherfucker? Grasshopper pie be green!
EdwinQuote Reply
You follow pie, you get pie-addicts and pie dealers. But you star to follow the cake and you don’t know where the fuck it’s going to take you.
EdwinQuote Reply
Ricky Nolasco –> Twins per a high school kid (nice job, kid)
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Naw, yo, it ain’t like that. The cupcakes, man, they get ate quick. They be out the game early.
Unless they some smart ass cupcakes.
GBTSQuote Reply
@ Berselius:
John Boehner is reporting on Cubs off-season deals?
Guess that makes sense, nothing else is happening in his life.
SVBQuote Reply
Ted Lilly —> Retires, didn’t burn off enough nerves.
SVBQuote Reply
Dang, one mention of John Boehner and now my comments are moderated. Dying Laughing!
SVBQuote Reply
Biggio, Bagwell, Maddux, Mussina, Glavine, Schilling, Thomas, Walker, Trammell, Raines
11 would have been Piazza and I considered him instead of Thomas for this year.
I explained my views on the PED-corps last year. This year it isn’t really an issue, there are so many good candidates I can fill a ballot and leave them off. Once the logjam clears, I’ll think about them again.
SVBQuote Reply
@ SVB:
This is Regular Orange Guy, not Crying Orange Guy
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ Berselius:
I’m confused. I thought this was Orange Guy?
[img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JQnCHk72fU0/TERvw3svhEI/AAAAAAAABhs/QamfWxx18nw/s400/murton.jpg[/img]
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Good to see Mish’s family getting an early start on the holiday feast.
Happy Thanksgiving Jabronis
[img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/733925_576727572382231_1810717248_n.jpg[/img]
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Yeah, Thanksgiving! Bitch!
dmick89Quote Reply
Happy Gluttony Day everyone.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ dmick89:
Fuck yeah!
EdwinQuote Reply
I feel old. I been out there since I was 13. I ain’t never fucked up a crust, never stole off some filling, never did some shit that I wasn’t told to do. I been straight up. But what come back? Hmm? You’d think if I burn a lattice up on some shit they’d be like, “A’ight, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got his pay lawyer. We got a bail.” They want me to bake with them, right? But where the fuck they at when they supposed to be bakin by us? I mean, when shit goes bad and there’s hell to pay, where they at? This bakery is rigged, man. We like the little tarts in the top row of the counter window.
sitrickQuote Reply
You guys at OV should take a minute to read why this sweet old lady is thankful for the kindness of a stranger. Heartwarming shtuff.[img]http://i.imgur.com/52v5T.jpg[/img]
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ GBTS:
Let me be emphatic: You need to take your cupcake-loving ass across Charles Street where it belongs.
dmick89Quote Reply
You only bake pie two minutes. The minute it goes in and the minute it comes out.
EdwinQuote Reply
Fuck all them cupcake bitches. That’s just the way I feel about it. I got nothin but love for pie, nothing but love.
EdwinQuote Reply
This is the best thing to every happen to this blog
WaLisQuote Reply
They fuck up, they get beat. We fuck up, they give us pie.
umbraQuote Reply
I ain’t no chef’s coat wearin’ food network star like you. I’m just a baker, I suppose. And I want my sugar.
sitrickQuote Reply
You ever steal my pies, I’ll kill your whole family.
dmick89Quote Reply
Stay classy, ‘Merica
Suburban kidQuote Reply
I’m just a humble pastry chef with a bigass piping bag.
sitrickQuote Reply
So what, man? You earned that pie like a motherfucker, man. Keep that shit.
dmick89Quote Reply
http://storify.com/EliLanger/this-man-is-hilariously-live-tweeting-his-flight-n
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
That’s awesome.
dmick89Quote Reply
@ dmick89:
That was my favorite part.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
This was my favorite part:
dmick89Quote Reply
That should be this link: http://twitter.com/theyearofelan/status/406166501876436992/photo/1
dmick89Quote Reply
http://www.theonion.com/video/tired-of-traffic-a-new-dot-report-urges-drivers-ho,14144/
EdwinQuote Reply
new shit: http://obstructedview.net/news-and-rumors/carl-crawford-and-jacoby-ellsbury.html
dmick89Quote Reply
I left off pretty much anyone who had a direct link to steroids.
Made life much easier
/BBWAA
But seriously, Bonds Clemens Sosa and Palmiero make completing the survey that much easier.
2883Quote Reply