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Baseball. Blogging. Whenever.Monday, December 22, 2008The 5 percent ruleThe New York Times' Dan Rosenheck calls for the abolition of the rule that bounces dudes off the Hall of Fame ballot if they don't receive 5% of the vote in their first year. The reason: the writers are starting to (slowly) get smarter about what makes a Hall of Famer, and many of the thinking man's favorites have been (or may be) dropped from the ballots before their value is truly appreciated:As mainstream baseball reporters have become more familiar with the sophisticated quantitative tools now available to assess players’ value, their collective judgment has evolved. As a result, some players whose skills have been underappreciated would probably benefit from strong campaigns of support today. Unfortunately, many have been dropped from the ballot, and their omissions are no less glaring than the current statistical causes célèbre of Blyleven, Alan Trammell and Tim Raines. The usual suspects are mentioned: Bobby Grich, Ted Simmons, Lou Whitaker. I'm all for it, though I'll admit having a high-profile paper like the New York Times stumping for these guys is a bit disconcerting. After all, arguing for guys like Grich, Whitaker and Simmons has always been one of my favorite attention-grabbing affectations. This is the baseball equivalent of that article in the USA Today profiling your favorite indie band. Kind of kills it, you know? Looks like I'll have to start stumping for some less obvious guys. For example, did you know that Jack Clark walked more times in his career than all but 41 guys, and that the majority of those ahead of him are in the Hall of Fame? OK, I'll work on it some more. Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 5:33am Comments
Josh Sykes said...
I’m getting the full feed in my reader. Posted 12/22 at 09:49 AM
Andy Pressman said...
Also only getting headlines in my reader, which means I read far fewer articles… Posted 12/22 at 06:59 PM
Craig Calcaterra said...
Tim and Andy: sorry I’m so late to respond. I didn’t do anything to the feeds—in fact, I’ve never messed with them and (I must confess) I don’t know how to. I’ll look into it, though, because they should be full articles. Posted 12/22 at 09:25 PM
wrveres said...
yeah it kind of sucks. I always read Craig via google reader, and now it is just headlines. I can honestly say I have read about 1/4 less systerball daily, due to the change. Posted 12/23 at 12:43 AM
Andy Pressman said...
If it helps troubleshoot, Craig, I also use Google Reader. Maybe the change to headlines occurred when GR went through its recent update. Posted 12/23 at 12:55 AM
Dave Studeman said...
This is the feed: http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/rss/shysterball_art/ As you can see, the full articles are there. I can see them myself in Google Reader, so I don’t know what the issue is with other folks. Are you using this feed? Posted 12/23 at 07:18 AM
Andy Pressman said...
I must have been using an illicit feed somehow, as this works fine. Thanks for clarifying, Dave. Posted 12/23 at 05:18 PM
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Did you guys switch to headlines only in the RSS feed? If so…damn.