I am old enough to have a child in college, by the way. I grew up when Steven Spielberg was known for joyful movies full of wonder and not Oscar-bait (anti)war movies.
I recently read an Internet article on baseball players who are not in the Hall of Fame but deserve to be.
In the article was every great baseball player from Derek Jeter's era aside from Derek Jeter himself.
Members of teams like the 98 Yankees, the 98 Cleveland Indians, legendary players from legendary teams.
Is Derek Jeter the only player from more recent than the 94 baseball strike who is even in the Hall of Fame?
Young people as old as me are looking at the Hall of Fame and seeing no one they saw play on television!
The Baseball Hall of Fame is quickly becoming irrelevant for anyone born after the release of the original Star Wars, save only for the old Negro League players in it!
We remember great baseball players, great teams- but no one from those great teams is in the Hall of Fame!
The Baseball Hall of Fame is becoming a cranky old man's club that is irrelevant to anyone too young to remember when Jimmy Carter was President!
Why not simply have a big sign in front of the Hall of Fame that reads RIP Baseball 1866-1994!
It is bad enough that we will probably never see Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Mark Mcqwire, or Roger Clemens in the hall of Fame!
But why in God's name are Andy Pettite, Nomar Garciaparra, Manny Ramirez, and Buster Posey being kept out?!
Why is Andruw Jones, who has more Gold Gloves in center field than anyone not named Willie Mays, who hit over 400 Home Runs and has more than half as many RBI's as all-time leader Hank Aaron, not enshrined in the Hall of Fame alongside Willie Mays and Hank Aaron?!
Or Omar Vizguel, for God's sakes, who has more Gold Gloves at Shortstop than Andruw Jones has as center field even, who has a .272 lifetime average and just short of 2,900 career hits?!
Why are Andy Pettite and Jorge Posada, two of the Big Four of the greatest baseball team of all time, not in the Hall of Fame?!!
Or Buster Posey, the greatest non-pitcher on the 3-time World Champion San Francisco Giants?
Do you think that the Giants won in 2010, 2012, and 2014 on nothing but pitchers?
Is there any scientific, court-admissable evidence that any of them used steroids?
The Baseball Hall of Fame is dying!
Andy Pettite and Buster Posey do not need the Hall of Fame!
The Hall of Fame needs Andy Pettite and Buster Posey!
And Andruw Jones and Omar Vizguel!
Right now the only thing keeping the Hall of Fame relevant to people my age and younger is Negro League legends that played 30 years or more before we were born!
I'm sorry, Hall of Fame, but you are dying!
We will keep our own Hall of Fame!
One where the Big Four of the 98 Yankees, the greatest baseball team of all time, has a place in the Hall!
Where Omar Vizguel, probably the greatest player to play Shortstop since Ozzy Smith along with Derek Jeter, belongs in the hall alongside Andruw Jones!
God loves you! Create your own Hall of Fame on your own website!
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson