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The Suburban Avenger wrote:Headline of the day, from Deadspin: "Royals defeat A's, Ned Yost in epic AL Wild Card game."

Somebody tell me why he relieved Shields with a guy who'd thrown 70-something pitches two days before? Pedro called Yost out on this on the TBS studio show.

The Suburban Avenger wrote:Do the Royals remind anyone of the 2007 Rockies?

Detroit — Tom Gage has covered many Hall of Famers in more than three decades as a baseball writer.

Next summer, he will join them many of them on stage as he enters the writers' wing in Cooperstown, Ohio.

Gage, the Tigers beat writer for The Detroit News since the 1970s, was named the winner of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award in a vote by members of the Baseball Writers Association of America. The results were announced at the writers' meeting Tuesday at baseball's winter meetings.

Gage beat out Boston Globe legend Dan Shaughnessy and the late Furman Bisher of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

In press boxes across America, Gage was known for wearing ballcaps and writing creative leads, among other attributes.

He'll be the first Detroit News writer to enter the writers wing of the Hall of Fame since the late Joe Falls was honored in 2001.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2014/12/09/detroit-news-tom-gage-voted-baseball-hall-fame/20151963/

The Suburban Avenger wrote:

Detroit — Tom Gage has covered many Hall of Famers in more than three decades as a baseball writer.

Next summer, he will join them many of them on stage as he enters the writers' wing in Cooperstown, Ohio.

Gage, the Tigers beat writer for The Detroit News since the 1970s, was named the winner of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award in a vote by members of the Baseball Writers Association of America. The results were announced at the writers' meeting Tuesday at baseball's winter meetings.

Gage beat out Boston Globe legend Dan Shaughnessy and the late Furman Bisher of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

In press boxes across America, Gage was known for wearing ballcaps and writing creative leads, among other attributes.

He'll be the first Detroit News writer to enter the writers wing of the Hall of Fame since the late Joe Falls was honored in 2001.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2014/12/09/detroit-news-tom-gage-voted-baseball-hall-fame/20151963/

And proud we are of him ... yet the Veterans Committee can't put one lousy guy in from a class that included Jim Kaat, Luis Tiant and Tony Oliva?

Ya Mar wrote:

The Suburban Avenger wrote:

Detroit — Tom Gage has covered many Hall of Famers in more than three decades as a baseball writer.

Next summer, he will join them many of them on stage as he enters the writers' wing in Cooperstown, Ohio.

Gage, the Tigers beat writer for The Detroit News since the 1970s, was named the winner of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award in a vote by members of the Baseball Writers Association of America. The results were announced at the writers' meeting Tuesday at baseball's winter meetings.

Gage beat out Boston Globe legend Dan Shaughnessy and the late Furman Bisher of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

In press boxes across America, Gage was known for wearing ballcaps and writing creative leads, among other attributes.

He'll be the first Detroit News writer to enter the writers wing of the Hall of Fame since the late Joe Falls was honored in 2001.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2014/12/09/detroit-news-tom-gage-voted-baseball-hall-fame/20151963/

And proud we are of him ... yet the Veterans Committee can't put one lousy guy in from a class that included Jim Kaat, Luis Tiant and Tony Oliva?

If somebody who was an 11 time all-star in 12 years, won 5 consecutive gold gloves, and was in the top ten of early every offensive and defensive stat for his position when he retired can't even get a mention from the veterans' committee then fuck them all. Bill Freehan was much more dominant at his position than Kaat, Tiant, or Oliva. He was pretty clearly the best player at his position for a decade (Joe Torre is the only other 60's catcher that ranks with him - and he is in). I can name 15 pitchers in the eras when Kaat and Tiant were at their peak who were better. I can name the same number of outfielders better than Oliva. But I can't name one catcher who was clearly better than Freehan. I know Don Quixote and windmills. But still. Damn.