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Bobby Valentine Blasts Hall of Fame Voters,
Says Fans Should Be a Part of the Voting
January 11, 2013
Plenty of people have questioned the Hall of Fame and its voting process over
the years and especially the last couple days as no player was voted in on
Wednesday. But this might be the strongest opinion on the entire thing that I
’ve heard yet as former MLB manager Bobby Valentine puts sportswriters and
Hall of Fame voters on blast, while claiming that Barry Bonds and Roger
Clemens should be voted in and questioning if Greg Maddux will get an
asterisk due to bad pitches being called strikes.
Bobby Valentine joined ESPN Radio Las Vegas with Gridlock to discuss his
surprise that no players were voted into the Hall of Fame, why writers should
no longer be in charge of the voting, why fans should be a part of it, which
player was the most snubbed, if Craig Biggio belongs in the Hall of Fame and
next year’s ballot that will include Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine.
Were you surprised that no player was elected into the Hall of Fame on
Wednesday?:
“The reporters must have been at the computer and electronics show that you
guys have going on out there in Vegas, and they must have got their wires
mixed up. I was a little shocked, yeah. I think greatness should be respected
and acknowledged as greatness.”
Do you think that writers should be in charge of that vote?:
“No, I don’t think the writers should be in charge of anything, as a matter
of fact. … I think you should have had been at games, should have some kind
of credible knowledge of what’s going on during the era of which you’re
voting. … I guess to vote, all you need to do is have 10 consecutive years
as a sportswriter. Some of these guys haven’t been at a ballpark in 20
years, some of them haven’t turned on the TV in 10, and yet they have a
vote. I don’t get any of that. When they were in charge of this sanctuary,
they were in charge because they were the only ones to view the games live.
They were the only ones in St. Louis to watch Stan Musial; they were the only
ones in New York Polo Grounds to watch Willie Mays. Now everyone watches and
everyone has an opinion on it and that voting should be given to those who
pass a test before they vote.”
If the fans should be part of the vote:
“It’s the fans of the future that we’re handing over the game to and we’
re handing these Hall of Fame inductees to. I think that they should have
some kind of voice. I’m not sure how you regulate that and how you make that
happen, either. The world is closing in on us and the information age that we
’ve lived in and now the computer age that we’re living in will solve all
those problems.”
Who do you think got snubbed the most of this year’s potential inductees?:
“Barry Bonds is the best player I’ve ever seen play. How can he not be in
the Hall of Fame? It just goes against thought and reason. And Clemens, if you
’re supposed to dominate and era and that’s going to be your ticket to
fame, I don’t think anyone dominated their era like Roger did. If you’re
the best at your position, and you have a catcher who accumulated the
statistics that Mike Piazza did as a catcher, or a second baseman who got
3,000 hits, how do you keep these guys out? I don’t get it.”
Biggio’s numbers aren’t off the charts, but he did it for so long. So in
your eyes, he’s a Hall of Famer?:
“Again, it’s the Hall of Records, and 3,000 hits is one of those goals.
Everybody with 3,000 hits, except for, I guess, the guy with the most hits in
the history of the game, Pete Rose, and Barry Bonds, are in the Hall of Fame.
So how can he not be?”
Next year, Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux make the ballot. They’ve got to make
it right away, right?:
“Yeah, great statistics. They pitched in the umpire-widened-strike zone era.
Are we going to put an asterisk because those pitches that were outside were
called strikes? It gets ridiculous the more you look at things and the more
you wonder why we do things here, the more you have to question this. They
should definitely be in, Maddux for sure.”
http://www.ettoday.net/news/20130113/152115.htm
瓦伦泰批棒球作家 “他们20年没进场看球”
ETtoday体育新闻 2013年01月13日
2013年没有球员进入名人堂引起宣然大波，前红袜队总教练，现任NBC电视台球评的“大
情人”瓦伦泰(Bobby Valentine)当然不落人后，发表他的见解，认为邦兹(Barry Bonds)
等人应该要进入名人堂，而且还批评票选的棒球作家，这几年来是真正看过几场球赛了？
邦兹、克莱门斯(Roger Clemens)与索沙(Sammy Sosa)这三位被指控曾用禁药的球员，今
年首次入选，其他第一次入选者受到波及，没能进入名人堂，消息传出后引起各方讨论，
瓦伦泰提出他独道见解，表示他对这个结果有点惊讶，“我觉得伟大球员，就该像我们所
认知的伟大球员受到尊重。”
瓦伦泰认为这些拥有票选资格的作家不应该去指控任何事，“有些人已经20年不曾到球场
了，有些人在10年内没有开过电视，但他们还是有1票。他们只看过一场球就在指控，看
的球赛还是梅斯(Willie Mays)在纽约高地球场比赛。他们有权投票，也得在投票前接受
测试。”
名人堂票选不仅是票选，也包括后世球迷与媒体怎么看待这些过程，尤其现今电脑资讯发
达的时代，瓦伦泰觉得只要用电脑，就能够解决这些问题。他觉得虽然很多人可能不同意
他的想法，但他自认代表理性的声音，尤其当大家对于邦兹该不该入选，意见分歧时。
“邦兹是我看过最棒的球员，”瓦伦泰表示，“你怎么不会选他进名人堂？这就是理性与
思想的对抗。还有克莱门斯，如果你见识过他主宰球场，就该给他名人堂的入场券，我不
觉得有人能创造像他一样的世代。”
最后瓦伦泰再说，“如果你在你的守备位置上累积可观的打击数据，像是皮耶萨(Mike
Piazza)或是一位二垒手击出3000安(指前太空人队名将毕吉欧，Craig Biggio)，你怎么
忍心将他们拒于门外？我就不会这么做。”