Sportsbook – Blyleven and Alomar Elected to Hall of Fame. Baseball made news at the sportsbook on Wednesday when Bert Blyleven and Roberto Alomar were elected to the Hall of Fame. Hall of Fame voting is really a screwed up process and the entire system should be overhauled but it does get some attention at the Internet sportsbook from time to time.
Baseball should really just forget about the Hall of Fame. The voting process is such a joke and then you have the Veterans committee as well who elect players. Did you know that Blyleven got just 17.5 percent of the vote when he was first on the ballot in 1998? You go 11 years into the future and now he is on more than 79% of the ballots. His stats never changed in 11 years but voters changed their minds. Blyleven might indeed be a worthy Hall of Fame member but the process is so screwed up it is hard to tell.
Alomar an Easy Choice
Roberto Alomar is a no doubt Hall of Famer. He is in the conversation at SBG of greatest second baseman of all time. Sportsbook stats indicate that he had 2,724 hits, 210 home runs, 474 stolen bases, 1,508 runs was a career .300 hitter and won 10 Gold Gloves. If those numbers are not Hall of Fame worthy then no second baseman should ever have gotten in. You look at the screwed up voting process though and you will find that last year when he was eligible he didn’t make it. The idiots who vote for the Hall of Fame believe that getting in on the first ballot should be reserved for only a select few so some people didn’t vote for him last year. What a joke. Alomar was on 90 percent of the ballots this time but again, the entire process is sickening.
Steroid Mess
The Hall of Fame voting has been bad and now it is getting worse. Voters have no clue what to do with players who are suspected of steroid use. This was the first year that Rafael Palmeiro was on the ballot and he got about 11 percent. He is one of only four players in baseball history with 3,000 hits and 500 home runs so he would be a sure fire Hall of Famer if not for the steroid allegations. Mark McGwire had his vote total go down to 19.8 percent this year.