Friday, January 8, 2010

College football wrap-up/hall of fame voting

After last night's "national championship game" the Alabama Crimson Tide won their 8th national title yet claim that it was their 13th title, yeah i dont get that either. Meanwhile Boise State goes 14-0 and beats as many BCS teams as Bama did and gets nothing. In my honest opinion Boise would have beaten Bama especially if Alabama played like they did last night because if Garrett Gilbert can do that to them in his 1st real action what would have Kellan Moore have done to them. This points out a larger issue with the BCS because this year marks the 8th time in the past 10 years where a team either beat one of the championship participants or finished undefeated and got no chance at a national title in what other sport could a team go unbeaten and not get a chance at a national title we need a playoff of some sort to fix this i propose an 8 team playoff but a 4 team playoff works as well. 16, 32, or 64 are just too many teams.
Also this week Andre Dawson, the great Expos and Cubs outfielder, got elected to the baseball hall of fame on his 9th ballot (congratulations to him). Just missing was Bert Blyleven and Former Oriole Roberto Alomar, both of which should get in soon. Alomar did not get in for one of three moronic reasons: people don't vote for players on the first ballot (this is just stupid and explains why guys like Ripken, Gwynn, and Henderson did not get 100% of the vote), the spitting incident (which the recipient John Hirshbeck has forgiven him for and they have become friends), and his poor play in New York as a Met. Dawson getting in on his 9th ballot and Blyleven about to get in on his 14th or 15th ballot has led people like Rob Parker, Bill Plaschke, and the biggest moron ever Skip Bayless saying that players should be on the ballot only 1 year and that is it. This is so dumb because there are times when there are too many players at one position to let them all in and this rule would have meant guys like Rogers Hornsby, Jimmy Foxx, Mel Ott, Tris Speaker, and Yogi Berra not being Hall of Famers. Also it allows voters to think about players careers for a long time because during the 5 year waiting period they are thinking about other guys so they dont like at the careers of the guys soon to be eligible.

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