Vern Gagne

Just Boggs next year. Ryne Sandberg in 2006. If his vote total continues up than Bruce Sutter may go in has well.

Hunter absolutley leveled the White Sox catcher. Interesting to see if this leads to anything.

I think a stronger case can be made for Ted Simmons than Lance Parish.

Tim Raines and Albert Belle aren't eligible yet. Hard to say what kind of support Raines will get. The Almost HOF should include Bill Buckner. 2700 hits in an injury plagued career. He's healthy for 3 of those seasons and he's a 3,000 hit member.

No Somewhere Peter Gammons didn't mention like Cleveland. Kent and or Beltran will be dealt by the Astros. Of course not.

Gather around y'all it's time for this week in Baseball. A huge series in Comiskey. The Twins and White Sox do battle Good pitching matchups Monday and Tuesday. Radke vs Buerhle, and Santana vs Garcia. This starts a tough 13 game stretch for the Twins. White Sox, Red Sox, A's and Angels luckily 10 of the 13 are at home.

I agree. The Save is maybe professional sports most overrated stat. A closer can allow 2 runs and still be credited with the save.

Stephen A. Smith isn't horrible on PTI. He's alot more subdued and even tempered. Like a normal human being. It's when he's on SportsCenter, or in the NBA studio does he become terribly annoying.

Selig has nothing to do with this. MLB has sent players to Japan for 70 years, and nothing this series has happened before.

In order to be considered a closer has to be dominate. Not just get saves, but pretty much be unhittable for 8-10 years of his career.

Good riddance to a poor man's Mark Grace. Know Mauer needs to come back, and the Twins can have the early makings of an actual 3 and 4 hitters.

If this was discussed earlier sorry. Congrats to two deserving HOFers Paul Molitor and Dennis Eckersley. Even bigger congrats to Rick Manning for stealing Eck's wife, and ending Molies 39 game hit streak.

So also is the 1 inning closer. Rivera's been excellent during the season, and more importantly he's been almost perfect during the postseason.

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At one point Williams said if he was good enough to play major league baseball he would.

Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio seem to be the toss up states. There's rumblings in the conservative circles (talk radio and sites like wnd.com and newsmax.com) that the core conservative base (guys like me) is indeed pissed at Bush and may very well either A) stay home on election day or B) vote for the libertarian or some other 3rd party guy. Bush's team seems to think that the Iraq war will be enough to keep the conervatives "happy." I think Bush is in deep trouble as he has nothing to gain. In order for him to win, he has to hold onto every one of those little red states that put him into office last time. The fact is, he's more likely to lose those states to Kerry than he is to steal one of the medium sized blue states that went to Gore in 2000. Bush needs to realize that voter apathy in the conservative block is for real this time. What good would that do?

Rivera is pitching in the era of 1 inning closer.He's not in control of the number of innings he pitches. Really Eck is in for his years has a closer. So the closers like Rivera should be considered.

Trade talk is always popular this time of year. Perez is very good. I'm sure the Pirate brass think the same thing. That's one reason Benson's available.

I really think Bush only know is starting to go full out on this campaign. He just sounds more confident, and assured of his platform than he had earlier this year.

Some of the weak states for both are pretty solid leads. Kerry in New Mexico and Washington. Bush in South Carolina, and West Virginia. All have leads by more than 7 points.

I'll throw my hat in the VEEP sweepstakes. From a battleground state in Minnesota. Can appeal to voters in the Midwest. A union member.

I call Postmaster General.

Seahawks-Bengals

He should be but when all you hear is how terrible Bush is has a public speaker. You the tendency to be over confident.

I've gotta think Bonderman is right up there for the Tigers. He's still only 21 years old, and does have excellent stuff.