Hall of Fame- The NBA
Individuals who receive at least five votes from a seven-member screening committee in a given year advance to an Honors Committee, composed of 12 members who vote on each candidate and rotating groups of 12 specialists (one group for female candidates, one group for international candidates, and one group for American and veterans candidates); any individual receiving at least 18 affirmative votes (75 percent of all votes cast) from the Honors Committee is approved for induction into the Hall of Fame. Advancement to the Honors Committee is generally pro forma, although the Hall's Board of Trustees may remove any candidate who "has damaged the integrity of the game of basketball" from consideration.[2]
To be considered for induction by a screening committee, a player must be fully retired from play for at least five years, while a coach or referee must be fully retired for at least five years or have been active full time in his/her respective craft on the professional, collegiate, of high school level for at least 25 years. No years of service criterion is applied to those who have made a "significant contribution to the game of basketball". Sportswriters and commentators are elected as full-fledged members. I STOLE THIS FROM WIKIPEDIA
Anyone can make the basketball Hall of Fame, but great players don't make it while high school basketball coaches do? I get it, it's for basketball and not the NBA, but can you make this thing any more watered-down? There's a special committee for foreign players, so Drazen Petrovic, who died tragically in a car crash, has a special place in this thing. There are 141 players in this thing and I don't even care to get into it, let's just say it's not too impressive an honor.
BASEBALL- You need 75% vote from a bunch of douche bag sportswriters who take this as their big opportunity to feel important and act like they mean something to the game of baseball, which they undoubtedly DO NOT. 539 of those fuck-clowns get votes. They have fucked their right up so brutally that they didn't get Tony Gwynn or Cal Ripken Jr. in on the first ballot. These fucking ass clowns can't even put in two of the top 10 players of the 90's and great human beings on the first ballot. McGwuire gets held out because he probably used steroids, just like Pete Rose has been forever frozen out due to the fact he gambled. How do people still think baseball is some kind of holy shrine to this world? It's seen an unreal amount of fuck-up's and assholes who are not to be looked up to by ANYONE. The strike, spitballs, doctoring baseballs, throwing at batter's heads, the Black Sox scandal, steroids, racism, it's a LONG LIST. Baseball writer's every year get on their high horses and act holier than thou as they hold the key to get in and only give it out to maybe 2 people per year. It's a complete tragedy that player's need a political campaign run to get themselves into the Hall of Fame and it's sickening that the voters are not held accountable at all. You never find out who they vote for and they never have to explain themselves. Why shouldn't Pete Rose be in the Hall of Fame? HE GAMBLED ON BASEBALL, WOW. If that doesn't happen thousands of times per year then I'm not a human being. This is the pinnacle of an Old Boys club that is just complete bullshit. Something needs to change because this complete clusterfuck is just frustrating and dumb.
We now move to All-Star games where fans vote Shaq and Iverson (who I love but can no longer defend) to starting roles despite the fact that they really shouldn't be starting on their respective TEAMS EVEN. Fan voting is a joke and can't possibly be used anymore in full to determine starting lineups, especially considering the elephant in the room of baseball using the All-Star game to determine HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE IN THE WORLD SERIES!?!?!??! Who was smoking enough crack to kill Bobby and Whitney at the same time to think that idea up? It's understandable that you want athletes to take it seriously, but I'm sick of the NL getting beaten the fuck up and having to play away not because of regular season record that 162 games are used to decide, but by one game that they have VERY little control over. SO FUCKING STUPID.
Hook 'EM for NATIONAL CHAMPS if you've made it this long.
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