This post should be screen-printed onto facial masks and mandated to be worn in anti-Yankee hotbeds across the "hoax" pandemic. There is one reason - ONE - why Bernie Williams has not been long ago enshrined into baseball's Hall of Fame:
He played for the Yankees.
As a result, the goose-fleshy, intellectually unresponsive, morally corrupt, spittoon-mouthed, tick-brained dwarfs who cover baseball regularly refuse to acknowledge great Yankees, while honoring racist Tom Yawkey and one-hit wonders like Bill Mazeroski - (lifetime BA: .260; best season BA: .283) - whose lone moment in the sun, of course, came against New York.
Not to single-out Maz - a tribal elder and fine sportsman - but why the hell is he in the Hall instead of Bobby Richardson? (Fun fact: Bobby was the 1960 World Series MVP; if Maz doesn't hit that homer... well, think about it.) But let's not go down a rabbit hole. Let's look at the Yankees of the late '90s - Torre's Yankees - the last great dynasty in your miserable lifetime. But don't expect to find evidence in Cooperstown. Nope. Your grandchildren will find two players - Jeet and Mo - leaving them to wonder if this team really won four rings in five years. Why was Gramps always talking about them? They only had two great players.
Listen: There's nothing worse than self-loathing Yankee fans, who accept the Hall of Fame voting each year, buying into the false narrative that to play in New York brings excessive fame, so Craig Biggio belongs and Jorge Posada doesn't. What NYC brings is excessive pressure, and not many players hold up under it for the length of a career.
Bernie fucking belongs in the Hall. It's that simple. Thank you, wonks. Now, get back to rating the election.
Bernie is a Hall of Famer in my book. I thought he was the best player on the team for a span of about five years ('96 through '00). Eventually, in 2001 and onward, Jeter succeeded him as the best player on the team. But the dynasty occurred during Bernie's tenure.
ReplyDeleteSome of the amazing things that Bernie did that I remember fondly, for no particular reason: (1) He reached base safely in something like 16 out of 21 plate appearances, an amazing hot streak. (2) In a game in Oakland, he once mistakenly thought a ball three call was ball four and went to first base. The ump had to call him back and everyone was laughing. Then he hit the next pitch out for a home run. (Everyone said that only Bernie could have done that.) I think one of the reasons that I remember Bernie so fondly is that he was a Yankee farmhand who came up when the team was terrible. As he got better, so did the team, culminating in the dynasty years.
Anyway, so Bernie was the switch hitting center fielder with power, who hit for average and on base percentage, driving in runs too, with four World Series Championships. Yet, he's not in the Hall of Fame. What gives?
I think that a guy who was one of the best players at his position for at least 4-5 years should be in the Hall. Particularly when he was one of the best clutch hitters of his era and won four WS championships.
I agree that the only reason Bernie is not in the HOF is the stupid bias that the HOF voters have toward NYY players. People talk about the "core four", but it was really more like the "fab five". This guy was as important, or probably even more important, to the team during the dynasty years than any one player of the core four.
The Hammer of God
Bernie don't get no respect, I wanna tell ya.
ReplyDeleteHe ain’t gonna be in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame neither.
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ReplyDeleteOne more thing. New York State and City are seeing a significant spike in new COVID-19 cases after a rash of risky behavior over July 4th weekend. Far more so than that after the George Floyd protests. Which tells us a couple of things. 1) Coronavirus is still endemic in the population and can spread like wildfire if given the chance, and 2) the protestors behaved much better than your average backyard cookout attendee.
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Seriously, forever and always, fuck you Hal.
I HAVE ALWAYS SAID BERNIE WAS AND STILL IS THE MOST UNDERRATED YANKEE OF ALL.
ReplyDeleteHE DESERVES TO BE IN THAT "CORE FOUR" PACK WHICH REALLY SHOULD HAVE BEEN NAMED SOMETHING LIKE THE "THRIVE FIVE".
HALL OF FAME?
YES.
IF HAROLD BAINES IS IN, SO SHOULD BERNIE.
Yeah, I think Bernie was a much better player than Harold Baines. There are a whole lot of players in the HOF who weren't anywhere near as good as Bernie. I don't begrudge it to any of them. God bless 'em all, but it don't mean Bernie should be locked out.
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Amen, and Posada was key over and over. A real hero, like Bernie, due for recognition.
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