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Published in The Contributors
October 24, 2013

Bobby Finstock

We almost completely forgot of the sage like advice of Coach Bobby Finstock. Actually, it is the advice you have to cling to if you want to vote for him, as for a Basketball Coach, he did not seem to offer anything to motivate his players, had no problem with forfeiting a game, and was probably more content to pick his nose than execute a pick and roll. He did however off this nugget of advice that everyone should live by:

“There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Now you stick to that, and everything else is cream cheese.”

Now this is the type of advice that transcends the game of Basketball don’t you think?

The Bullet Points:
Movie Appeared:
Teen Wolf (1985)

Actor:
Jay Tarses

Role Portrayed:
Coach of the Deacon Beavers H.S. Basketball Team

Why you should vote for him:
Just for his outlook on life alone.

Why you should not vote for him:
How good could his overall won/loss record possibly be? Especially, when the “Wolf” isn’t playing?

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Published in The Contributors
October 24, 2013

Birdie

The film may have been average, but in his supporting role Tupac Shakur did what he always did; steal the show. As the neighborhood gangster, “Birdie”, Tupac creates the moral dilemma for the film’s protagonist, but does his limited role offer enough for the Hall? Considering that when one often looks at the brief but powerful legacy of Tupac Shakur, “Above the Rim” is not usually among the top ten things thought of, we don’t think it looks good.

The Bullet Points:
Movie Appeared:
Above the Rim (1994)

Actor:
Tupac Shakur

Role Portrayed:
Gangster

Why you should vote for him:
For many, Tupac is a legend.

Why you should not vote for him:
Legend or not, the movie was not strong enough to have a serious inductee.

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Published in The Contributors
October 24, 2013

Billy Heywood

We were about to go into a diatribe about the idiocy of a twelve year old suddenly becoming an owner (and manager) of a Major League Baseball team, but come to think of it, Frank McCourt owning the Los Angeles Dodgers and the scenario behind that transpiring is far more ludicrous.

The Bullet Points:
Movie Appeared:
Little Big League (1994)

Actor:
Luke Edwards

Role Portrayed:
Owner and Manager of the Minnesota Twins

Why you should vote for him:
Well, the Twins did get better after he took over.

Why you should not vote for him:
The same team was legitimately earmarked for contraction years later, so how good an owner could Heywood have been?

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Published in The Contributors
October 24, 2013

Ben Wrightman

There is something about the super fan that is a little scary. We love sports (as evidenced by this site), but to the extent that Jimmy Fallon does in Fever Pitch? We can’t say that we do. At the end of the day, the whole sad sack of the point of the movie (which was to put sports fandom in perspective) seemed to be ruined when the Red Sox cast of the shackles of lovable losers and actually won the World Series in 2004, which forced the ending of the movie to be redone. That renewed finish had Fallon and his love interest, Drew Barrymore attended the World Series “because they had to be there”. Incidentally, this kind of messed up the point of the movie. They probably should have based it around the Chicago Cubs.

The Bullet Points:
Movie Appeared:
Fever Pitch (2005)

Actor:
Jimmy Fallon

Role Portrayed:
Superfan of the Boston Red Sox

Why you should vote for him:
You like to watch the Red Sox at the Bahhhhhh. (our attempt at a written Bostonian accent)

Why you should not vote for him:
Is a superfan really Hall worthy here?

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