This Just In…Rice is IN!
Baseball Reflections —
... Here’s the story on the election of Rice and Rickey Henderson (in his first year of eligibility) from ESPN. The date of the ceremony, according to the ESPN article is as follows, “The pair will be inducted into the Hall during ceremonies on July 26 in Cooperstown, N.Y. They will be joined by former Yankees and Indians second baseman Joe Gordon, elected posthumously last month by the Veterans Committee.” ...
Brewers Avoid Arbitration With Hardy
The Bucky Channel - The World of Sports from Wisconsin's Perspective. —
... Fielder, Rickie Weeks, Dave Bush, Seth McClung and Corey Hart are the remaining Brewers that need to go through the arbitration process. All of them will be in a Milwaukee uniform next season, barring a trade, but their contracts need to be worked out first. Elsewhere around the MLB, former Brewer Gabe Kapler has agreed to join his friend Gabe Gross as a member of the Tampa Bay Rays. And congratulations to Rickey Henderson and especially Jim Rice for their entry into Cooperstown.
Baseball Fun Facts
Down with Goldy —
... Even in the midst of this very exciting Gopher basketball season, and a fun college hoops season in general, the other day I found myself looking forward to opening day for YOUR Minnesota Twins (This is Twins Territory, after all). Perhaps influenced a bit by the Hall of Fame Inductions today, whereupon the inimitable Rickey Henderson and overrated Jim Rice got in, but our very own beloved birthday-lover and compulsive circler Bert Blyleven fell short again, I am very much in a baseball mood. ...
Five "A"s, Rickey Henderson, and Awesome School
The Goose's Roost —
... and Grinders has a solid post about Ryan Miller, in which she describes Miller taking faceoffs with Goose and Pominville at Friday's morning skate. As long as Goose doesn't use the "Selling out so hard I'm down on one knee" move and knocks Miller unconscious, I'm fine with it. - Anytime I hear about Rickey Henderson I think about our first Internet friend at Riding With Ricky. Therefore, we have to say congratulations to both when Rickey is voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. - The color guy on ...
Jim Salisbury’s Hall of “Very Good” Ballot
The Shibe Times - A Phillies Blog —
... in the Sunday Inquirer to share his Hall of Fame ballot. The results of the vote were released today and Rickey Henderson was elected on his first try while Jim Rice got there on his 15th. You have to love the Hall of Fame, where a player who has been out of the game doesn’t deserve to get into the Hall of Fame for 14 years, and then does the 15th. I don’t recall Rice getting any base knocks in the ‘08 campaign. But that’s an argument for another day, and one ...
The Game Day Skate for Tuesday, January 13th
Four Habs Fans —
Bullet points for what you missed while dreaming of making the Hall of Fame (you're getting closer Hawk!)... Bob gave his mid-season state of the Habs presser yesterday, and as usual didn't reveal anything. The only nugget is that he's disappointed in Rhino (aren't we all), so we need defensive help. Then, blah blah blah, we don't comment on rumours, blah blah blah...; Future Hab Vinny scores in the Lightning's win over the Kings; Stars beat the Wings in OT; Luongo says he's ready to go. No such statement from ...
Hall of Fame and Other Items
C70 At The Bat —
C70 thought about writing this entire post in third person since C70 thought it'd be a way to honor Rickey Henderson for making the Hall of Fame, but C70 can't do that quite as well as Rickey. ...
Morning Rounds, January 13th
The Sports Complex —
... “We’re a different team. They’re a different team.” - Ken Whisenhunt
Three lines on their world:
Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice are your newest MLB hall of famers Tony Dungy calls it a career Blake Griffin and Oklahoma handled 11th ranked Texas
Three lines on ours:
Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb are playing for their resumes ...
A Few Things For the Night
The Goose's Roost —
... - ESPN is already starting with the "Braketology"? Really? That's like saying Tim Tebow is one of the greatest football players of all time. Oh, I see what you mean. ...
