{"id":279,"date":"2006-01-10T20:46:37","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T04:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songoose.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:37:59","slug":"jim-ed-gets-the-shaft-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Jim Ed Gets the Shaft&#8230; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so I don&#8217;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&#8217;m pretty disappointed that he failed to make it this year. His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/r\/riceji01.shtml\">stats<\/a> don&#8217;t make him a lock, but with recent revelations about the juice, it just seemed like Big Jim Ed&#8217;s time had come. <\/p>\n<p>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&#8217; roll hall of fame and Tony Perez is enshrined in Cooperstown. I&#8217;d love to see baseball have much stricter rules for inductment, but that is not the case. The current guidelines elected Ryne Sandberg &#8212; they should also have elected Jim Rice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so I don&#8217;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&#8217;m pretty disappointed that he failed to make it this year. His stats don&#8217;t make him a lock, but with recent revelations about the juice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}