The Girl Who Loved Andy Pettitte

Grabbed from my Hall of Fame voting archives:

I voted for Tim Raines his first year of eligibility. But when he failed to get 25 percent of the vote, he was moved to the back burner. Sorry, that’s just the way it has to be. Maybe more eligible ballwriters should have measured the Rock’s career numbers in all phases against those of analog basestealer and first-ballot inductee Lou Brock. Try it, you’ll be amazed.

Good news for Raines, however. Yesterday, in one of the most bizarre elections in a bizarre process, he collected 30 percent and is now back on my radar.

So yeah it’s hard to get worked up that he wrote yet another stupid thing. The proper approach is mockery since like Murray Chass (who doesn’t have a blog!!!) he’s not interested in discussing anything. Just making a splash to keep getting attention until he is inevitably put out to pasture.

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