deadspin.com - 12/18/2007
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Keith Law and Rob Neyer, two guys who know more baseball than we've forgotten -- wait ... is that how that phrase goes? -- but they can't vote for the Hall of Fame. Woody Paige can. Vegas Watch looks at Paige's detailed, thorough thought process .
For example, his considerable deliberation on Goose Gossage.
"Gossage -- During a visit to Yankee Stadium in the late 1970s, I wanted to talk ...
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DRaysBay —
... Of course it didn't stop there, yesterday Deadspin posted this; apparently Woody Paige of all people is a member of the BBWWAA and part of the reasoning for the lack of Law and Neyer was not attending enough games - essentially attending games must make writers smarter and clearly that's evident in this case, who doesn't find Paige more baseball savvy than Law and Neyer? ...
That's What Friends Are For
FIRE JOE MORGAN —
I'm late to this party -- Deadspin already picked it up -- but I can't resist. FJM Legend Woody Paige wrote an article about his HOF vote. This should give you doubters out there a lot of confidence in the sanctity of the HOF voting system. I'm sitting here, looking out the window and pondering the snow, the sun, the creek, the peak and the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot. [...] Do I vote for suspected steroid users, particularly a couple included in the Mitchell report on Thursday, or do I automatically dismiss their candidacy? ...
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