Jim Ed Gets the Shaft… Again

Ok, so I don’t exactly have the most objective opinion on whether Jim Rice should be in the baseball hall of fame (he was my favorite player growing up), but I’m pretty disappointed that he failed to make it this year. His stats don’t make him a lock, but with recent revelations about the juice, it just seemed like Big Jim Ed’s time had come.

I actually feel that most Halls of Fame are complete crap; they feel the need to induct someone each year for the PR that the event brings. As such, Aerosmith makes the rock n’ roll hall of fame and Tony Perez is enshrined in Cooperstown. I’d love to see baseball have much stricter rules for inductment, but that is not the case. The current guidelines elected Ryne Sandberg — they should also have elected Jim Rice.