Baseball Still Gets the Hall of Fame Right

There isn't much going on today. The Giants are off to DC to meet President Obama. The NFL will end the lockout today but I have zero interest in that story. The Colonel is working on a case so he won't be around for a couple of days. So I'm going to make this a short post about the baseball hall of fame. 

There are a lot of things baseball gets wrong. In my opinion, they still get their hall of fame right. Yesterday the baseball hall of fame inducted the newest members in their hall. And as always, there's just something really cool about the induction day and hall of fame itself.

There's just something cool about the baseball hall of fame that I don't think the other hall of fames can touch. Maybe it's the setting? Maybe it's the fact there isn't anyone who introduces the newest members into the hall so the ceremony itself concludes in a reasonable time. (The NFL hall of fame actually put a time limit for the people who introduce the newest members into the hall because Marty Schottenheimer rambled on forever during Derrick Thomas' induction.) Or maybe it's the fact that the baseball hall of fame still feels like it matters.

The football and basketball hall of fames usually have big classes each year entering the hall and some of those players you have to ask yourselves "are those guys really hall of famers?" You only get that feeling with baseball every once in a while. Baseball usually has small induction classes and the men entering the hall are pretty much sure fire hall of famers. That's why you see fringe guys like Jack Morris and Lee Smith always on the outside, looking in. The baseball hall of fame only inducts players who are truly worthy.

I'll just end this post before I keep rambling on. The baseball hall of fame is still cool to me. The hall of fame is on my bucket list of places to visit before I die.