Should Mark McGuire be in the hall of fame?
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Yes, he should go for the following reasons:\n1. He has the stats to be an automatic hall of famer.\n2. What steroid did he take??  He took Creatine, which is a body building enhancer but is not a steroid.  \n3. Even if Sosa and McGuire were jacked up on every steroid known to man, there was no rule against it in baseball until after their record-breaking chase.\n4. People say McGuire and Sosa carried baseball in the 1996-1998 seasons.  Although I agree with ESPN announcer Mike Greenberg that if they did not do it, someone else would have stepped up and carried baseball...I do believe that they were the best ambassadors for baseball at that time.  Can you picture Barry Bonds and Manny Ramirez having the same good-guy media image for the game of baseball as those two had?\n5. It's not like McGuire came out of nowhere and started hitting monster number of homreuns.  10 out of 11 seasons where McGuire played 100 games or more, he hit over 30 homers.\n\nAs you can tell, I am a very strong supporter of McGuire going into the hall of fame.  HOWEVER, I don't think he is a first ballot hall of famer, just because of the legends he is facing on the ballot this year.  Ripken and Gwynn are average everyday guys who went to work everyday and worked hard at perfecting their craft.  They became legends while they were playing, not for monster homerun numbers, or huge strikeout numbers,  but for doing the simple things in the game to perfection and showing every   Tom, Dick and Harry out there that if you work hard at what you believe in, you too can acheive greatness.  They were ambassafors to the game every day of their lives.  I am hoping the Hall of Fame voters are smart enough to vote McGuire in on the second ballot.
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i don't care for Barry...attitude problem...and sorry to say I'd didn't realize it was Piazza's 400th...good for him.\n\nIf Barry gets into the hall of fame...i think they should allow Pete Rose into it.
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I'm not a Packers fan but I have a lot of respect for Brett. I think that he owes it to the team and his teammates though to make a decision and not leave them hanging.\n\nIMHO he should retire
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Clemens will probably be selected to the Hall of Fame with the highest percentage of votes ever. Seven Cy Young awards says it all.\n\nNo, he's not hurting his legacy at all, especially since he's still a dominant figure while he's out on the mound (even though he only goes 6 innings at the most)...\n\nEven if he was hurting his legacy, what right does anyone else have to tell him not to?  It's his life, it's his legacy, isn't it?  None of us lose anything by having him pitch as long as he has.\n\nI saw Willie Mays hit a home run when he was playing for the Mets in 1972...it didn't matter to me that he was 41 years old at the time, and a mere shadow of his former self... hey, I saw the great Willie Mays hit a home run...  Clemens is a far better player since turning 40 than Mays was (Mays actually had an excellent year at 40, but slipped badly as a 41 and a 42 year old)... but it doesn't matter...he has long since been a shoo-in to be a first ballot Hall of Famer... the fact that he's pitching so great at his age simply means that he will approach or exceed Nolan Ryan and Tom Seaver's vote percentages, in my opinion.
318308
If he keeps up what he is doing this year then definatly. A run scored every game exept one, thats some potinential Hall of Fame Material.
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Hold onto that thing for as long as you can.  It's going to be worth A LOT if he keeps putting up these kinds of #s and goes into the Hall of Fame.
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Man, you answered your own question, by saying: "... How many guys actually shoot for this record? Most don't care."\n\nBy that yardstick alone, Cal's record of 3,198+ consecutive games played is EXTRAORDINARY!  If no one else cares, and this outstanding player, who did it everyday in the same Oriole uniform, at that--did do it, then isn't that one he11 of an acomplishment?  \n\nOf the three former players eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame this next year, i.e., Ripken, Mark McGwire, and lovable Mr. Tony Gwinn, Cal is the most dominant, the most durable, and yes, the most reliable of the three, and dang well better be inducted on the first ballot, or there is something wrong 'round here.
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I doubt Ric Flair would be inducted since he's still wrestling. And there's no way that Randy and the Ultimate Warrior will be inducted, Vince has lots of problems with them personally and I doubt he'd include them.\n\nI think that the British Bulldogs and Jake Roberts have a decent chance to get in.\n\nOwen Hart would be a fine choice. Mr. Perfect, Rick Rude, Ted Dibiase, Dusty Rhodes would be all nice choices as well.
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Pete Rose deserves to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame.  The hall of fame is to highlight those players who proved their baseball skills on the field or those who helped to elevate the game off of the field.  That man proved himself day after day on the diamond and as such deserved a place.  For goodness sakes, the man is one of the greatest hitters to pick up a bat, and he did it 'roid free! How many of today's current players are juiced up and heading for the hall?? \nAnd beside that, all he did was bet on baseball.  There are people who are either already in the hall or who you KNOW are going to be in the hall that have done far worse things.  There are drug abusers (and I am not just speaking of steroids), wife beaters, thieves, and all manner of true criminals.  It's pathetic that people with stats that don't hold up next to Pete Rose's, but who's criminal history should give them a spot on America's Most Wanted can make it into the hall but Pete Rose can't.
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Bernie is a Yankee!!   Mickey Mantle, Don Mattingly, Whitey Ford, Joe DiMaggio, were Yankees and only Yankees.  Bernie is on a very special list of players to wear only Yankees pin strips.  Even Yogi Berra can't say that as he played briefly with the Mets before retiring.  If the Yankees offer him a contract, good, if not retire.  My only concern would be that in my humble opinion Bernie would need 300 career home runs and 2500 career hits to give him a real shot at the Hall of Fame.  Right now he is just short on both counts.  With 4 world series rings and 6 AL pennants and a batting title he still might make it.
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no because he is a head case\nand Kerry Wood sucks and so does Mark Prior,,,,go Greg Maddox\n\n                                              die hard cub fan
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The hall of fame is for MLB players.  If O'Niel is in, then Josh Gibson is the HR king with over 900 hr's and Satchel Page is the best pitcher not Cy Young or Nolan Ryan.  But thank god those are not the rules.
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HELL YES!!! so what he bet on baseball.. did he bet on his team to lose?? there are drunks , wife beaters and murders in the nfl hall of fame. so what we are telling our children is , you can be an alcoholic who beats his wife and maybe even murders her but you BETTER NOT GAMBLE!!!!\nYES HE BELONGS IN THE HALL OF FAME
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Hell yeah!!\nHe played amazing ball and should be in the Hall of Fame for that alone.\n]Not what he chose to do as a manager.
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I'd do it - not because i like mike Maroth, but because i don't like Coffey.  Kent Merker is in the mix to mess things up as well.\n\nEven in the deepest of leagues you should be able to find holds
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That's tough. I like Jim McMahon and Steve Young. They were both good in College and won Super Bowls in the NFL. I guess since Young is in the Hall of Fame, that would give him the leg up. Ty Detmer put up great numbers at BYU, but did nothing in the NFL. My heart says McMahon. My brain says Young.
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I will say yes, he already is a Hall of Fame player. That said, he should also retire, though it would be tough to do because of injury. He has had a great career, and it would be foolish for him to risk his long-term health further.