This could be huge.

NBA.com is reporting that the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame is looking to reduce the years of eligibility following retirement from five years to four years, the main reason being that this will allow five calendar years to take place after a player retires to officially enter the Hall. 

Should this move take place, heavyweight (literally) candidate Shaquille O’Neal will be able to enter the Hall a year earlier as he is currently eligible for the Hall in 2017.  This would also include Yao Ming, which could make next year’s class one for the ages as Allen Iverson is entering his first year of eligibility. 

It is also expected that the direct entry ABA Selection Committee will be dropped, thus rendering anyone with ABA play on their resume to have to gain entry via the main road, the North American Committee, which nominates and inducts players, coaches or contributors from the North American professional, collegiate and high school game.

Once all of this becomes official, we will immediately begin work on revising our Basketball list to reflect the changes.

There have been two new updates regarding the WWE Hall of Fame, one regarding a potential future entry and the other on a Celebrity Wing inductee who has a movement against him to remove him.

On Ric Flair’s podcast, Sting discussed the WWE Hall of Fame and whether he would he would be going in soon, possibly as soon as 2016 in Texas.  While he did not say anything about when, or even if it was discussed with him, he did reveal that Ric Flair would be the one to induct him should that occur.

It’s hard to imagine anyone else doing the honors right?

While Sting may be going in, an on-line petition is gaining steam to try take Donald Trump out.

Rather than trying to explain the motivation behind it, let’s lift the bulk of the verbage written by Grace Lin from New York City, who is created the petition that as of this writing is closing in on 7,500 names.

“Consistent with this statement, WWE should remove Donald Trump from the Hall of Fame for his derogatory comments about Mexicans and Mexican-Americans, Muslims and other minority groups.

WWE not only employs Muslim and Middle Eastern talent, but has also recently launched the Network in the Middle East. The WWE must realize how many of its fans are Muslim. What message does it send to them to honor Donald Trump on the WWE's Hall of Fame?

And Mexico is one of WWE's biggest international markets - the WWE has a history of working with Mexican professional wrestling promotions as well as recruiting some of Mexico's top wrestlers. Many of WWE's most beloved superstars representtheir Mexican heritage in the ring.

Donald Trump has no place in the prestigious WWE Hall of Fame. The WWE Universe has continually expressed outrage at his induction, even booing him off the stage during his induction ceremony in 2013. He is a stain on WWE's ability to be a positive influence to its 650 million fans worldwide.

Hulk Hogan's immediate dismissal and removal from WWE's online properties due to racist comments have shown us that WWE will not tolerate those who disrespect their commitment to celebrating diversity. This is a critical moment for the WWE to scrub its ties with Donald Trump immediately.”

It should be noted that Hogan was removed on the WWE Hall of Fame website, but no statement had been made regarding his official dismissal from the Hall.  The same is true for Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka who is not on the site either following his arrest for the 1983 arrest of his then girlfriend, Nancy Argentino.

It should be noted that the WWE Hall of Fame has no physical presence and as it is only online at the moment, simply scrubbing anyone from the section is easy, and can easily be put back in without drawing instant criticism.

Should you be interested in signing the petition, you can do so here.

Michael Cuddyer announced today on the Player’s Tribune that he will forego his final season of his contract with the New York Mets and has retired from Major League Baseball.

The 36 year old was a two time All Star and spent most of his fifteen years with the Minnesota Twins, but it was with the Colorado Rockies in 2013 that he had his best season where he would win the Batting Title and was named a Silver Slugger.  He joined the Mets last season to play with his childhood friend, David Wright, and it was there that he made his first trip to the World Series in a losing effort to the Kansas City Royals. 

Cuddyer retires with 1,522 Hits, 197 Home Runs, a Slash Line of .277/.344/.461 and a bWAR of 16.6. 

We always the question when someone retires if he is a Hall of Famer and with Cuddyer, who would be eligible in 2021, had a good career he isn’t one.  Still, that does not take away from what was a productive career, and he could wind up in the Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame one day.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to wish Michael Cuddyer the best in his post-playing career. 

There is something about lists that bring out my obsessive-compulsive disorder. As a child, I would go through almanacs ranking the most inane things, and since this was well before the Internet age, and the development of Excel, I had hand written lists of varying topics in what felt like exhaustive research; or at least my eight year old self thought so.

My desk was littered with lined sheets of such arbitrary lists like the top 100 tallest buildings in North America or who had the most Home Runs in a season that did not win a MVP Award. In retrospect, it probably would have been a lot healthier for my wellbeing do be outside playing but whatever was on television was far more interesting as was almost anything non-fiction hence my very pale complexion and inability to master road hockey during my youth.