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Paul Konerko's number to be retired

Jan 16, 2015

Regular visitors to our website know that we will be launching in 2016 our fourth section which will discuss and rank the North American franchises from the four major leagues (MLB, NHL, NBA & NFL) and how they honor their past players and contributors.

With that in mind, the Chicago White Sox have announced that the will be officially retiring the number 14 of Paul Konerko on May 23 at their home game against the Minnesota Twins.

Konerko would spend sixteen seasons with the White Sox after arriving there from a trade from the Cincinnati Reds. He would quickly ascend up the popularity chart and emerge as the team’s power man, where he would blast 432 of his career 439 Home Runs, a mark that puts him only second in franchise history, though he would take over as the White Sox leader in Total Bases.

His other significant stats as a member of the Chicago White Sox include 1,141 Runs Scored, 2,292 Hits, 1,383 Runs Batted In, a Slash Line of .281/.356/.491 and a bWAR of 29.3.

Konerko will become the tenth former player to have his number retired by the organization.

Randy Savage to enter the WWE

Jan 13, 2015

Published in Not in Hall of Fame News

Hell froze over again at the WWE Hall of Fame.

Tonight on Monday Night Raw, the WWE Hall of Fame will announce that the first member of this year’s induction class will be Randy “Macho Man” Savage, who in the eyes of many was the greatest omission from their Hall.

Savage left the WWE in 1994, as have many, but nearly all of the big names who departed World Wrestling Entertainment in 1994 was hopeful to continue more of an in ring career, jumped to rival World Championship Wrestling where he was used as more than a broadcaster. He would headline multiple WCW Pay Per Views and win their version of the Heavyweight Title four times. This was after a ten year stint in the WWE where he was arguably the number two name behind Hulk Hogan, and a two time World Champion there.

At the time, it did not seem like Savage left on horrible terms, but as Hulk Hogan came back and Bret Hart came back, the question (which remains completely unknown) was why did Randy Savage not return. Past writers and workers claimed that Vince would not consider doing business with Savage in any capacity and all we have are theories as to why.

When Savage died in 2011, WWE fans were not only sad that they lost one of their favorites, but that they never got to see him one more time in a WWE ring and furthermore did not enter the WWE Hall of Fame.

Savage’s younger brother, Lanny Poffo, had previously made claims that Randy only wanted to go in with the Hall of Fame with the entire Poffo family, which would include Lanny and their father Angelo, who was a former wrestler himself and owned the outlaw ICW promotion in Kentucky in the 70’s and 80’s.

There is little reason to dispute Lanny, as Angelo was curiously added to the WCW Hall of Fame, allegedly at the crowbarring of Savage, and with respect to Angelo Poffo, he did not belong. Lanny also claimed that when the Von Erichs got in, specifically, the diminutive Chris Von Erich that how could he be denied?

Either way, that has not been referenced by Lanny in recent months as he publically relaxed that stance as in interviews he stated that of the fans wanted Randy in, he wouldn’t stand in their way, leading to speculation that he would be the headliner for this year’s Hall, which as we know has proven true.

We only wish that Randy was alive to see himself return home.

RIP: Roy Tarpley

Jan 10, 2015

Published in Not in Hall of Fame News

Former First Round draft pick, Roy Tarpley died today at the age of 50 to unknown causes.

Tarpley was the 7th pick overall in 1986 from the University of Michigan and the Center was chosen by the Dallas Mavericks, where he was poised to become one of the top big men of the game, and for awhile he was on his way to accomplishing that very thing.

In his rookie year, Tarpley would make the All Rookie Team and following that, though it was injury plagued, he would average a double double with the Dallas Mavericks. He wasn’t playing at an All Star level, but it started to look like he was knocking at the door. Sadly for Tarpley, it all began to unravel.

In the 1989/90 season he was pulled over for a DWI and was arrested for resisting arrest. A little over a year later, it happened again ad shortly after that he received banishment from the NBA for a violation of the NBA drug policy. Basically, drugs and alcohol ran Roy Tarpley’s life.

Tarpley would ply his trade in Europe and would return to the Dallas Mavericks in the 2004/05 season but he would test positive again and this time he was banned for life by the National Basketball Association and he would never play there again. He would bounce back to Europe but would still leave the NBA with a career double-double average.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to extend our condolences to the friends and family of Roy Tarpley at this time.

D-Backs to retire Randy Johnson's Number

Jan 10, 2015

Published in Not in Hall of Fame News

It seems like we are meant to talk about Randy Johnson a lot this week.

Following the announcement of Johnson’s induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Arizona Diamondbacks, the team where he pitched eight seasons in two stints (1998 to 2004 & 2007 to 2008) and had his best statistical seasons with.

Johnson would sign with the Diamondbacks as a Free Agent in 1999 and would immediately enter into the best baseball phase of his career. He would win the next four National League Cy Young Awards, this after winning his first Cy Young in the American League with the Seattle Mariners. In that four year timespan, “The Big Unit” won 81 Games, won the ERA Title three times, the Strikeouts Title four times, the WHIP Title once and most importantly co-won the World Series MVP (with Curt Schilling) and led the Diamondbacks to their first and to date only World Series Championship in 2001.

Statistically speaking, Johnson posted a 118 and 62 Won/Loss record, recorded 2,077 Strikeouts and had 2.83 ERA, 1.068 WHIP and a 53.0 in his eight seasons as an Arizona Diamondback, which are far superior numbers to the 10 seasons he spent in Seattle.

Johnson’s number 51 will be the third number retired by the Diamondbacks, the others being the league mandated 42 of Jackie Robinson and the number 20 of Luis Gonzalez. The team has not announced which day this will take place officially.

We would like to congratulate Randy Johnson for his latest accolade.