lol, that's an old bug. I started a thread about it in the bottom forum like 6 months ago, but Petrozza couldn't/wouldn't do anything, so it's here to stay...
Does the Baseball Hall of Fame have that retarded rule where you have to where the cap that you played for the longest? Whether they do or not, I have to say the Mets.
^Well Clemens played longer as a member of the Boston Red Sox... I'm not entirely sure but I believe thats how they do it.
They do it by tenure and by number of "quality" years. Basically they're going to try and get the Yankees back for that whole Dave Winfield mess IMO. Clemens should go in as a Yankee because he wants to be a Yankee, and it's not like Wade Boggs going in as a Devil Ray--he won his ring with the Yanks, he had some of his greatest seasons as a Yankee.
If they made the rule like "you had to have played for this team for x(maybe 5) years to have them on your plaque" then everything would just be fine. Players could choose, Boggs doesn't go in as a DRay, and everyone is happy.
I'd have to look it up, but I think FOX was running things by 1998. If not they were on their way in and likely calling the shots. Piazza's contract would have been up at the end of 98 and they traded him in May. To make matters worse, the Marlins turned him around in a week and got a better deal for him than we got. The whole thing stunk to high hell.
Gary Sheffield, Jim Eisenreich, Charles Johnson and someone else who escapes me at the moment, for Piazza and Todd Zeile, I think. Sheffield replaced Piazza's bat to a degree but was a constant headache. The team was never the same after that trade.
I think Bonilla was involved in that deal as well. Of course then the Marlins flipped him to the Mets for basically nothing. I know Preston Wilson was a decent prospect at that point but he never really amounted to anything, and the other 2 pitchers the Mets sent pitched a total of 20 ML innings.
May 15, 1998 to L.A.- Gary Sheffield, Jim Eisenreich, Bobby Bonilla, Charles Johnson, Manuel Barrios to Florida- Mike Piazza and Todd Zeile May 22, 1998 to Florida- Geoff Goetz, Ed Yarnall, Preston Wilson to Mets- Mike Piazza
I remember I was in a deli getting lunch when I heard about the Piazza deal. Damn, that ended up being a very good sandwich :beer:
Is that all Florida got for him? I know they were in fire sale mode after winning the 1997 World Series, but I thought they got AJ Burnett and some good guys in that deal. Well, that makes me feel a little better, 8 years later. Yeah, Bonilla was the guy I forgot. How could I forget that? We added Sheffield and Bonilla to our clubhouse in place of Piazza, who was the centerpiece of the team. Wonderful.
Do flakes really need a hall? What are the options, corn flakes, frosted flakes and that's about it? Am I forgetting something?
