If you follow our site, you may have seen that we name Barry Bonds as the most worthy eligible former player who should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame. In a statement to MLB.COM, the career Home Run leader agrees. Bonds stated:

“Oh, without a doubt. There’s not a doubt in my mind. ”I respect the Hall of Fame, don’t get me wrong. I really, really, really respect the Hall of Fame. And I think we all do. I love the city of San Francisco and to me that’s my Hall of Fame. I don’t worry about it because I don’t want to be negative about the way other people think it should be run. That’s their opinion, and I’m not going to be negative.”

It may not be popular, but we agree. We have stated our position on the PED Era, and Major League Baseball looking the other way until public opinion forced them to change their stance. Based on the tallies for Mark McGwire, the odds for Bonds, Sosa and Clemens seem low, regardless of the latter three being (in our opinion) a better candidate than McGwire. We will find out for sure this December.

Gang, as we move onward and upward we go back to our original concept which was the ranking of bands/artists for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  As such, we are looking at the artists we have from 2013 to 2020 and are adding those we think we have missed.  once completed, we will be going forward to 2025. 

We have already uploaded additions for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019.  Today we have eleven more new additions for the 2020 section.  They are:

Carbon Leaf
Dishwalla
Goldfinger
Jurassic 5
Mushroomhead
Neutral Milk Hotel
Opeth
Seven Mary Three
Slash's Snakepit
The Amps
Zao

Now that this is completed, we will be adding the Future Rock Lists for 2021 to 2025.   Look for them soom, and please cast a vote and leave your opinion!

 

We have to admit that this is one of our favorite weekends of the year. This is the weekend where the Football Hall of Fame enshrines their latest class and the NFL pre-season begins. The emotional festivities have already begun as the worthy collective of Willie Roaf, Dermontti Dawson, Cortez Kennedy, Curtis Martin, Jack Butler and Chris Doleman enter Canton, Ohio’s hallowed grounds.

We are a little more prepared than last year as we are already prepared with our revamped list for who we think you should headline next year’s Hall of Fame Class with our new 100, which is again led by Jerry Kramer who for reasons we will never understand is continuously ignored by the Hall. Hopefully…2013 will be his year!

 

One of the most enduring franchises in professional sports, the Boston Red Sox has added to their Hall of Fame. Formed in 1995, the Sox HOF has a long list of inductees, which includes sixteen men who are in the Baseball Hall of Fame. To be eligible for the Red Sox Hall, a player must be retired for at least three years and have been a member of the Boston squad for three seasons.

This year’s class is headlined by Curt Schilling, who has unfortunately been in the news for financial issues, rather than baseball related ones. Schilling is a strong candidate for Cooperstown and was one of the pitchers responsible for bringing the World Series to Fenway after a lengthy absence.

Schilling is joined by Marty Barrett, who was Second Basemen for much of the 80’s for Boston. His best season was 1986, where he had career highs in hits and OPS and captured the 1986 ALCS MVP. Outfielder, Ellis Burks was also inducted. Burks spent his first six season in Boston and won a Silver Slugger and Gold Glove while playing there. He did have more productive seasons after in Colorado, though the Coors Field effect may have assisted in that regard.

Going old school, 1940’s Pitcher, Joe Dobson was also named to the Red Sox Hall of Fame. Prior to and after World War II, Dobson won over 100 games while with Boston. Dutch Leonard posted 90 wins for Boston in the 1910’s including a league leading ERA of 0.96 in 1914.

They are joined by Joe Mooney, who has been employed by the Red Sox since 1970 and John Taylor who owned the franchise from 1904 to 1911.

We congratulate all of the new inductees to the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame.