Not in Hall of Fame News

An interesting piece of news came afoot regarding Pete Rose and the Baseball Hall of Fame this week. The new Major League Baseball Commissioner, Rob Manfred, stated that he would be making a decision to potentially reinstate Rose to Baseball and pardon him from gambling on the sport has a lot of ears raised.  Rose has been banned for twenty-five years and throughout the Bud Selig era there was no discernable talk that he would be reinstated.  There is now a glimmer of hope that the Hit King of Baseball might make it to Cooperstown after all.  This news came…

Much like we sped up our process for revising the Rock and Roll list, we did the same with our Baseball one. Last month, the Baseball Hall of Fame announced that four players would be entering the hallowed halls of Cooperstown.  Recapping those players and the rank that they had on our list are: Randy Johnson (Ranked #3) Pedro Martinez (Ranked #5) Craig Biggio (Ranked #11) John Smoltz (Ranked #13) Along with the addition of Ken Griffey Jr., your votes and comments, there is a significant change in the top ten of our Baseball list.  As per the last three…

We told you we were not going to waste a lot of time revising our Rock and Roll List. In what for us was one of the most anti-climactic Rock and Roll Hall of Fame selection none of our top ten will be making the trip to Cleveland, though there were two of them (Kraftewerk at #2 and the Smiths at #5) were nominated.  Combined with the fact that none of the incoming eligible acts made our top forty, the top ten did not change very much. Recapping, the following acts will be officially inducted into the Rock and Roll…

The Austin City Limits Hall of Fame has just announced their second ever group of inductees which will be officially inducted this June. The next class will be headlined by the “Coal Miner’s Daughter”, Loretta Lynn, a country music legend and long time staple of the ACL program.  Lynn will be joined by the West Virginia originated, though Austin based band, Asleep at the Wheel, who were multiple time performers at the stage show. Tex-Mex accordion legend, Falco Jiminez, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark and the original ACL production team will also be inducted.  Last year’s inaugural class included Stevie…

It was reported by TMZ, that Arnold Schwarzenegger will be the next inductee to the WWE Hall of Fame and will be part of their “Celebrity Wing”.  TMZ was the first to report that Randy “Macho Man” Savage would be part of the class.  Schwarzenegger has been a longtime fan of the WWE and has befriended many past superstars, namely Bruno Sammartino who ha inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame two years ago and Jesse “The Body” Ventura who appeared in three of his movies.  He has also done film work with Professor Toru Tanaka and Andre the Giant.…