Welcome all to the 2021 edition of the /r/BaseballHoF ballot. The /r/BaseballHof is a project started by /u/MyCousinVinny to make our own version of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

This year’s ballot will feature everyone who remained on the ballot after the 2020 election as well as number of new comers.

You may vote for as many or as few candidates as you wish, it is entirely up to you. There is an abstain option when voting and please feel free to use it.

OK, on with the candidates:

Players' Ballot

Bobby Abreu

Brian McCann

Carlos Delgado

Chase Utley

Cliff Lee

David Wright

Hideki Matsui

Ian Kinsler

Jamie Moyer

Jason Giambi

Jeff Kent

Jimmy Rollins

Johan Santana

John Olerud

Johnny Damon

Jorge Posada

Lance Berkman

Mark Buehrle

Mark Teixeira

Nomar Garciaparra

Omar Vizquel

Paul Konerko

Prince Fielder

Roy Oswalt

Ryan Howard

Sammy Sosa

Tim Hudson

Tim Wakefield

Torii Hunter

Troy Tulowitzki

Newly Eligible Players

Alex Gordon

Coco Crisp

Daniel Murphy

Dustin Pedroia

Endy Chavez

Fernando Rodney

Hunter Pence

Jose Cruz, Jr.

Mark Grace

Mark Reynolds

Ryan Braun

Scott Kazmir

Ubaldo Jimenez

Contributors' Ballot

Abe Isoo

Al Campanis

Al Munro Elias

Bob Murphy

Bowie Kuhn

Bruce Froemming

Buck Showalter

Bud Fowler

Carl Stotz

Cito Gaston

Davey Johnson

Doc Adams

Don Baylor

Don Zimmer

Dusty Baker

Ewing Kaufman

Fay Vincent

Felipe Alou

Gene Autry

Gene Michael

Harry Wendelstedt

Hawk Harrelson

Jack McKeon

Jacques Doucet

Jerry Colangelo

Jerry Howarth

Joe Black

Joe Brinkman

Mike Ilitch

O.P. Caylor

Paul Beeston

Rod Dedeaux

Roland Hemond

Ron Shelton

Terry Collins

Tom Cheek

Tom Grieve

William Wheaton

[2021 Ballot] (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHTXGJji7_sKvq42JSb_AMraJGh78rqcyaL1PYcXTYGOV6aQ/viewform?usp=sf_link) will be open until 4/8/2021.

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[HOF PLAYERS & CONTRIBUTORS] (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XJZLo767PsBOV0py34hRIzV6j0pK3bmN9U8M8UM5CAM/edit?usp=sharing)

Here is the positional breakdown of our HOF so far.

Total HOFers - 359

HOF Players - 260

Hitters - 184

Pitchers - 77

C - 20

1B - 26

2B - 20

3B - 23

SS - 20

LF - 23

CF - 24

RF - 24

DH - 4

SP - 70

RP - 7

Starting Pitcher 70 - Addie Joss (1924), Amos Rusie (1958), Bert Blyleven (1992), Bob Feller

Read Chapter 1 Here

Previous Chapter Here

Early release! This one was a lot of fun to write, so I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do.

****

Okay, one last check.

Jel'si stood up and patted her pockets. She wasn't wearing her normal clothes, and the different weight distribution of her new outfit kept throwing her off. Torel had put the clothes together, a human style outfit that managed to ride the line between proper feminine sensibilities and the weird backwards style of human clothing. A one piece sundress in a vibrant red that dipped low enough to show plenty of cleavage, paired with black leggings and accented by a short black coat. Sensible shoes. She had her omnipad and her ID, but no badge and no pistol. Well, not her normal pistol. Just a small backup gun she could tuck in a pocket. She didn't need it but carrying a piece was just habit at this point.

Satisfied that she wasn't missing anything, Jel'si grabbed Stace's gifts from their home on the jump seat next to her and exited the small shuttle into the brisk Earth air. Stace had been excited about spring, but it was still unbearably chilly. This damn coat might look good and help accent her less-than-spectacular chest, but it wasn't keeping the cold out. She jogged her way into the hotel and made her way towards the medical wing and Stace's apartment, slowing and taking a moment to make sure nothing was out of place and she wasn't short of breath before she went in.

Askel had a smile for her as she entered the medical office. He was using a medical sprayer, putting some sort of numbing agent on a marine's swollen ankle, and the woman's jealous glare just earned her a smirk from the Interior Agent. It must be obvious why she was here.

"Stace is getting ready, you can go right in. He's been prepping all morning." Askel offered her another smile and Jel'si's smirk turned into a nervous grin. She opened the door and the smell of home cooked food wafted out into the medical room. Jel'si stopped for a moment and just savored the flavors filling the air. She had a small snack before coming for her date since she didn't want to seem like a slob, but her mouth was immediately watering in anticipation.

"You better go in. That smell is going to attract marines like blood bugs to a sporting event." Jel'si nodded to the Helkam,

I was born black in a white, Catholic country. Now, that’s not so unusual these days but back in the 1940s and 50s there weren’t but a handful of us in all of Austria. Our papas had been soldiers who came to fight the Nazis and went back home when the Allied occupation ended. None of them stayed. None of them came back either. And a bunch of white girls were left with little black bastards. They couldn’t lie and say the baby-daddy had been a German or Austrian killed in the war, like all those girls who’d gotten seduced or raped by white Americans, Frenchmen, Englishmen or Russians. Not that I’ve ever heard of a black Russian, mind you, unless you count the cocktail.

So there I was. Living proof that my Mama had sinned. With a foreign soldier. And a black one at that. Neighbors whispered behind cupped hands – if we were lucky. Shopkeepers stared, and then sniggered. My church-going Oma called me “Rabenbratl*,* meaning “roasted crow”. And I won’t even tell you what the other kids called me. Some of the teachers too.

But Mama always held her head high as she tugged me along by the hand. And she was never unkind to me, even when I pestered her. Even when I pestered her about my Papa, which I did often. I’d hear Sammy Davis Junior or Louis Armstrong on the radio - they made those white people in Vienna smile and tap along. Once I snuck into a movie theater to see “Gone with the Wind”, just to see someone like me on the screen. I didn’t like what I saw, or the way everyone else in the audience laughed whenever a black character spoke.

“Schwarzer Peter” - Black Peter.

A card game suitable for all ages.

Goal: Stay away from Black Peter!

Requirements: 37 playing cards - 18 pairs and one joker.

Rules: Shuffle and distribute an equal number of cards to each player, and don’t let anyone see what you’re holding. If you have any pairs, you can put them in the middle for all to see. The youngest player begins by selecting a random card from the person on their left. If it forms a pair with an existing card, that pair can also be put in the middle. If you choose the joker – Black Peter – pretend it is an ordinary card and hope someone else picks it from your hand. Continue, each player picking a card from the player on their left until all pairs have been placed aside. The player left holding Black Peter loses the game.

On rainy days, my classmates wouldn’t go outside for recess, they’d play cards. Their favorite game was Schwarzer Peter, Black Pet

10.15.2021 Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct MegaThread

Please use this thread for all pre-event hype and speculation, as well as post-event thoughts reactions.

Watch & Discuss

The event has now ended.

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Recap of announcements

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Expands Into New Waters With a Free Update and Paid Expansion on Nov. 5

Enjoy Free Content Like a Café, Cooking DIYs and Expanded Customizations, Plus Paid DLC Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise

Get ready to expand your horizons! In a new Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct video presentation today, a sweeping lineup of new additions and options to enrich your island life were introduced. A number of these features for the Animal Crossing: New Horizons game for the Nintendo Switch family of systems will be available through a free update on Nov. 5.* These free features include characters from the Animal Crossing series, such as the composed Brewster, who will open a café on the second floor of the museum, and the sea shanty singing Kapp’n, who will take you to different islands with his boat; newly opened shops in the plaza on Harv’s Island, including Katrina’s fortune-telling shop; the introduction of cooking and growing vegetables; and a host of other customizations and features.

In addition to this free update, today’s video presentation also debuted the first details and footage for Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise.** In this paid DLC, you’ll have the chance to join Lottie and the Paradise Planning team. In your new role, you’ll travel to a chain of charming islands where you can design vacation homes, decorate island facilities – like a school and a restaurant – and discover new ways to create and personalize as you gain experience designing dream vacation homes for your clients. Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise launches on Nov. 5, and can be purchased for a one-time fee of $24.99. The paid expansion is also supported as a complimentary feature of Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack, the new membership plan of Nintendo Switch Online that includes the base Nintendo Switch Online membership, plus additional benefits like access to Nintendo 64 games and SEGA Genesis games. Members can download Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Happy Home Paradise for free and play while t

I did this in October of 2020 to tell my friend who only had a ps3 which ps3 games was on psnow and at the time I couldn’t find a list anywhere else online so I just typed them all so she could see them. Anyway I sold my ps4 in December and don’t have access to psnow any longer and I never updated this list to add any possible new ps3 games added to psnow since October. But I remember how time consuming and boring and annoying it was to type this list and not being able to find it anywhere else online. So just in the chance this list may be helpful to anyone in anyway I just thought I’d post it here before deleting it from my notes app.

All PS3 games available to play on PS4 with PSNOW Subscription (as of October 2020)

1. Sam and Max The Devil’s Playhouse Episode 1: The Penal Zone
2. .detuned
3. Air Conflicts - Secret Wars
4. Air Conflicts: Vietnam
5. Alex Kidd in Miracle World
6. Alien Rage
7. Anna - Extended Edition
8. Anarchy: Rush Hour
9. Altered Beast
10. Alone in the Dark: Inferno
11. All Zombies Must Die!
12. Alien Spidy
13. Anomaly Warzone Earth
14. Aqua Panic!
15. Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star
16. Arcana Heart 3
17. Arcana Heart 3: Love Max!!!!!
18. Armageddon Riders
19. Bang Bang Racing
20. Atelier Shallie ~Alchemists of the Dusk Sea~
21. Atelier Rorona PLUS PS NOW BUNDLE
22. Atelier Escha and LOGY PS NOW BUNDLE
23. Atelier Ayesha PS NOW BUNDLE
24. Asura’s Wrath
25. Batman Arkham City
26. Batman: Arkham Origins
27. Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY
28. Battle Fantasia
29. Battle Of Tiles Ex
30. Battle Princess of Arcadias
31. Bionic Commando Rearmed 2
32. Big Sky Infinity
33. Bentley’s Hackpack
34. Bellator MMA Onslaught
35. Battlefield Hardline Standard Edition
36. Battlefield 4
37. Bionic Commando Rearmed
38. BioShock
39. BioShock 2
40. BioShock Infinite
41. Bit. Trip presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
42. Black Knight Sword
43. Blood Knights
44. BlazBlue: Continuum Shift EXTEND
45. BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma
46. BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
47. Bladestorm: The Hundred Years’ War
48. Bladestorm: Nightmare
49. BloodRayne: Betrayal
50. Bodycount
51. Bolt
52. Bomberman ULTRA
53. Borderlands: Ultimate Edition
54. Braid
55. Cars: Mater-National Championship
56. Cars Race-O-Rama
57. Cars 2: The Video Game
58. CapCom Arcade Cabinet
59. Burn Zombies Burn!
60. Brink
61. Castlevania Harmony of Despair
62. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
63. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate HD
64. Castleva

With the latest hakchi version, the option to scrape information for the games is now possible. However, the descriptions for each game are taken from TheGameDB.net, which means they can be too long and won't really fit in the small space the Genesis Mini allows for them.

So I decided to shorten or modify each description to fit within 7 lines (the maximum the stock games use), using the proper formatting and the accurate copyright information as show in the game boxes.

Here are the descriptions for the 118 games I added to my mini, plus several from other contributors. I will not be doing descriptions for every single Genesis game released, but people are welcomed to add their own to the thread.

Adventures of Batman & Robin

©1995 SEGA  ©DC Comics

Release Year: 1995

The Dark Knight returns with 
Robin to battle the forces of evil. 
Mr. Freeze has teamed up with 
the most notorious criminals to 
help him turn Gotham City into 
a diabolical winter wonderland!


After Burner II

©1990 Sega of America, Inc.

Release Year: 1990

Get on your F-14 Tomcat and 
shoot down enemy planes
as you dodge their bullets
across many missions in this 
home version of an Arcade 
classic!


Air Buster

©1991 KANEKO USA, LTD.

Release Year: 1991

In this shoot 'em up game, you 
control a fighter jet designed 
for space travel, and shooting 
enemies. You need instinct, 
and flight skills to destroy the 
enemy...and survive!


Aladdin

Virgin Enterprises, LTD. ©The Walt Disney Company

Release Year: 1993

Aladdin slashes his shining 
scimitar to fight through 
Agrabah, escape the Sultan's 
dungeon, snatch the Genie's 
Lamp, and save Princess 
Jasmine from the evil Jafar!


Alien Soldier

©SEGA

Release Year: 1995

Treasure invites all Genesis/Mega
Drive fans to try this shooter!
Test your skills against 45
challenging bosses. Just
remember--you can learn new
tactics from every defeat...


Alien Storm

©1991 SEGA

Release Year: 1991

Shape-changing alien scum 
took over your city. Fry the slimy 
horrors and smash their bid for 
global conquest. The excitement
is red hot in this arcade classic!


Animaniacs

©1994 WARNER BROS.   © 1994 KONAMI (AMERICA) INC.

Release Year: 1994

Help Yakko, Wakko, and Dot use
their specific abilities to find 

List of games that are not available on PC but can be played with RPCS3 emulator. First list has PS3 exclusives plus playstation exclusives(PS3/PS4 or PS3/PSV). Second list has all games that are console exclusive. Third list talks about the big unplayable PS3 exclusives and their current status.

Do note that your PC needs to have the required specs to play these games. Go to https://rpcs3.net/quickstart to see the required specs. Also note that some games require specific settings to run at full speed or display graphics correctly and you should see the wiki or forums for info, plus go to the discord if you have problems with games.

Final note. Go to https://wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=Help:Game_Patches for various game patches that unlock the framerate of exclusive games. Certain games can also do 60fps with Vblank settings in advanced tab of rpcs3 settings so no need for patches.

THE PLAYSTATION EXCLUSIVE LIST

• .detuned - Just a demo, not even a game really.
• .hack//Versus - 3D fighting game based on the .hack movie.
• Aabs Animals - Some sort of crappy Nintendogs thing but for the PS3/Vita.
• Absolute Supercars - racing game.
• Accel World: Gin'yoku no Kakusei - VN plus some rpg elements and battles.
• Accel World: Kasoku no Chouten- Sequel to the previous entry.
• AKB1/149 Renai Sousenkyo - Its a dating game where you date members of AKB48, SKE48, NMB48, and HKT48, the dates are all live action videos and you have to pick several options if you pick the right ones there are future dates and finally a confession video, its only in Japanese though.
• Akimi Village - City building game made by people being kefling series.
• Amplitude
• Aquanaut's Holiday Hidden Memories - Early PS3 exclusive never released in Europe or USA but has an english version courtesy of Hong Kong. In terms of gameplay you drive a submarine tag fish into your database, reactivate buoys and find the truth behind a missing oceanographer disappearance. Its pretty relaxed in terms of gameplay.
• Aquapazza: Aquaplus Dream Match- 2D fighting crossover game featuring characters from Utawarerumono , Tears to Tiara , and To Heart .
• Ar Nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star - 6/10 JRPG.
• Atomic Ninjas - Multiplayer 2D Arena fighting game, not sure if there is local multiplayer though can play the single player mode.
• The Awakened Fate: Ultimatum - Sequel to RP

Memorandum on Sakura Gakuin Festival☆2015(Part1)

【In4C, I'm very sorry for my mistakes, because of my bad memory, unreadable memos...I've complemented several issues by looking other reports. But still, there must be several mistakes】

★Venue: Akasaka ACT Theater (Tokyo). There are about 1300 seats, 1000 of them are on the 1st floor (25rows ×40 seats). My seat was in the left (facing to the stage) side in the middle of back-row 【But it's easy to see...and it's Megu-side!】

★Merches: It seemed Pins were soon sold-out and then Photos were gone. 【I bought nothing because of budget problem...】

★The announcement of attention before the show was made by Kurosawa-pro! It was very neat and crisp without ad-lib lines. She finished her announcement with "Well then, are you ready to make a blast!?"

★The backgroud music before the show were mostly US/Euro Pops and Rocks. Just on time (6:00pm), familiar 'The last BGM before the Sakura show'--"Kiss Me Again" feat.Alex Gaskarth (We Are The In Crowd) started and the audience got excited.

■■1. Mezase! Superlady 2015■■

The chime rings...and from a gate placed on the center of the stage, Mori-sensei slowly appeares with a grimace. He cleanes his throat and speaks solemnly "Then, I shall call the role".....And the show begins!

The intro of the song starts. C-chan with a big box in her hands and 3 other girls appeare from the left(stage-right) and run to the right and make a line. Then Rinon with a box with 3 girls come from the right. Then, from the center gate, Momoko appeares with other girls...the last girl is Saki(with a box) and she puts the box on the stage and climbs on it. This year, the lyrics of the song is shown on the screen (with the live-movie of their performance). I'm so busy in reading the lyrics, making a memo, and watching them perform...and my eyes are already wet with joy!

Saki's "In this year...I'll go from above!" makes us super-excited.

With Rinon's "I wanna get full marks!", we burst into laughing.

C-chan's "'Fukei' will live on forever" makes us smile. (It's a parody of Nagashima Shigeo -- historic baseball player -- "Giants will live on forever")

Aiko's line and banter with Megu...too hilarious!

Sara's line...At "I can't stand your forgetfullness anymore" line, I feel a bit sad there is no 'All girls disappear' choreo (4 elementary schoolers stand beside Sara, and others kneel down)

Mirena surely looks into the camera and her big-round eyes are shown on the screen.

Momoko shows u

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Prologue | Chapter 35

#Chapter 34 - When It Rains, It Pours

The next day saw them make good progress in the morning, yet the dark sky looming above made any plans for the afternoon difficult. However, Sammy was ambitious and optimistic, insistent that, even if they had to take cover for hours, they would still have time when it lightened or stopped to make it to at least the next stop along the highway.

Julie was reluctant, still thinking of the weather back in Schtat where storms were usually measured in days than hours. But it was such a well-made highway, busy with traders despite the dark skies, surely no harm to come from a bit of water.

They were wrong.

Halfway to the next stop, it poured so heavy that Julie could barely think, painful on her head through the hood. While the traders in their covered wagons continued, Sammy and Julie pulled over to find temporary cover under a tree. At the first sound of rumbling, though, Julie went about setting a tent using the broad ditch beside the highway, while Sammy put simple coats on the horses.

To put it lightly, the tent was cramped. The canvas sheet wasn’t even high enough for them to sit up straight, never mind that the groundsheet was on a slope lest the water pool, a stream already forming at the bottom of the ditch Julie had covered over. Diminishing the space further, those spoiled horses stuck their heads in.

Julie felt overwhelmed by it all as if struggling against life’s current. Things were happening, things outside her control, things she could do nothing about.

Yet she turned and saw Sammy looking as relaxed as always. Like it didn’t matter that her clothes were half-soaked, hair damp, to say nothing of the state of their socks.

Their gazes meeting, Sammy smiled. “Is something wrong?”

Julie almost shook her head, instead nodding. “I’m just worried.” It didn’t need to be said what she was worried about.

So Sammy leant in and kissed Julie. What started as a touch of lips grew ever deeper with every beat of their hearts, the sounds they made lost to the rain. And Julie forgot, forgot her worries, forgot the world around her, dragged into the world that only existed amidst their mingling breaths. Without thinking, her hand cupped Sammy’s cheek, fingertips playing with loose strands of stringy hair.

Not one to let an opportun

An unvaccinated person would not run me out of my house. I don't blame her for getting away from the unvaccinated; however, if one must go, why not boot the unvaccinated from your house? "LAKE CHAWEVA, W.Va. — Her text messages with links to medical research had gone unanswered. Her halting pleas at the kitchen table had failed. And by the time Laurel Haught pulled into her driveway to find her daughter Sam’s car newly adorned with an Infowars bumper sticker, she could only conclude that her campaign to persuade her child to get the coronavirus vaccine was going nowhere.

Laurel was vaccinated. Sam was not. They lived together, along with Laurel’s vaccinated husband and Sam’s unvaccinated boyfriend, in a tumbledown chalet above an artificial lake outside Charleston. It was a home with creaking floorboards, bulging photo albums and a fireplace that had burned through three decades of Thanksgiving nights and Christmas mornings. It was a home the Haughts had always cherished, and it was about to come apart.

“Y’all got to move out,” Laurel, then 57, told her daughter. But Sam, then 32, appealed to her father, who didn’t share his wife’s alarm about the risk of contracting the virus. The eviction was overruled. So Laurel decided there was only one thing left to do: She moved out herself.

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She drove just eight miles away, finding refuge with another daughter, this one inoculated. But across that short distance was a rift that is dividing households across America.

With Thanksgiving approaching, infections high or on the rise in many parts of the country and the vaccines now widely available to children, family breaches over immunization status are reaching new levels of rancor and intensity.

Summer is over, and fall is ending — seasons when many gatherings could be held outdoors. Now American families must simultaneously confront the time of year when all respiratory viruses spread most easily and the challenge posed by loved ones who have rejected the best way to protect themselves — and others — from a respiratory virus that has claimed more than 750,000 lives in the United States.

Laurel Haught checks a West Virginia website that tracks covid cases and deaths, hoping to convince family members that the coronavirus can be deadly. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post) No firm estimates exist for the number of American families riven by conflicting views of the vaccine. But the topic is clearly top of mind for many people — and for the nat

                          Wrestling Observer Newsletter

PO Box 1228, Campbell, CA 95009-1228 ISSN10839593

June 22, 2009

MISAWA DIES TRAGICALLY IN THE RING

You could make a great case that the biggest pro wrestling event of all-time took place on April 2, 1995, and it obviously wasn’t Wrestlemania at the Hartford Civic Center.

The last survivor of the old line of Japanese weekly wrestling magazines, Weekly Pro Wrestling, was, like pro wrestling in Japan in general, at a popularity peak. The magazine would sell 300,000 copies every week on newsstands on virtually any street corner in any city of any size in the country. The magazine put together a show at the Tokyo Dome. Because its influence in star making and popularity of wrestling was so strong that only one promotion, WAR, which had bad relations with the magazine, would dare turn down the invitation to appear. At first, many of the 13 different promotions involved in the 13-match show were just going to send some representatives. But it turned into major competition. Once a few companies announced sending their biggest stars and in most cases, matches that were being sent to steal the show, the ante was upped. Every company wanted to shine on the biggest stage that most would ever perform before, or at the very least, not look second-rate.

There were 54 wrestlers appearing on that show, all but a few of whom were major stars. 15 of them ended up as Hall of Famers.

The show drew a sellout of about 50,000 fans and, at the time, the largest live gate in pro wrestling history, hovering in the $5 million range. There have been bigger gates, bigger events and far more publicized shows since that day, but no show in history ever contained that much superstar talent with that kind of variety of matches.

On that day, there was little question that the biggest star in pro wrestling was Mitsuharu Misawa. There were plenty of superstars and superstar reactions on a smorgasbord of types of wrestlers and styles of wrestlers, ranging from the fast-paced heyday of in-ring women’s pro wrestling, Lucha Libre, worked shoot UWFI style, a women’s MMA match, a Pancrase style shoot, a science fiction style Alien death match for the Interplanetary heavyweight title with challengers from other planets, a barbed wire barricade barbed wire baseball bat tornado death match, and an explosive barbed wire match.

After Atsushi Onita used a barbed wire baseball bat and took a full swing to the gut of rival King Pogo

Welcome to the latest installment of the /r/baseballHOF Hall of Fame project! Come join us in this week's discussion. This week we move to Japan, to consider some of the greats of Nippon Professional Baseball. I expect this should be an interesting discussion and an opportunity to learn a bit about the history of Japanese baseball. Thus far in this project, we've elected the following eight NPB greats: SP Hideo Fujimoto, SP Masaichi Kaneda, SP Takehiko Bessho, C Katsuya Nomura, 1B Sadaharu Oh, 1B Tetsuharu Kawakami, 3B Shigeo Nagashima, and LF Isao Harimoto. Now, we look at the following players to determine, which, if any, are worthy of enshrinement in Cooperstown:

Pitchers:

• Eiji Sawamura
• Gene Bacque
• Jiro Noguchi
• Kazuhisa Inao
• Keishi Suzuki
• Masaaki Koyama
• Masaru Kageura
• Ryohei Hasegawa
• Shigeru Sugishita
• Tadashi Sugiura
• Tadashi Wakabayashi
• Tetsuya Yoneda
• Victor Starffin
• Yutaka Enatsu

Batters/Position Players:

• Alex Cabrera
• Alex Ramirez
• Atsunori Inaba
• Fumio Fujimura
• Hideki Matsui
• Hiromichi Ishige
• Hiromitsu Kadota
• Hiromitsu Ochiai
• [Kazuhiro Kiyohara](http://www.ba

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What is a Neo-Geo?

The Neo-Geo is a cartridge based video game system. It was released first as an arcade unit - and then as a home console. The arcade unit is called the Multi Video System (MVS) and the home system is called the Neo-Geo Home System (NGH) or more commonly, the AES.

 

There was a time in video game history when home console ports of games were markedly different from their arcade counterparts. In the era of the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, games had to be stripped back to run on home consoles. Simpler sprites, simpler animations, fewer sprites, characters removed, levels removed, game mechanics removed. A reasonable facsimile of a game was an acceptable trade-off for being able to play arcade favorites at home. For those readers who grew up playing arcade games and a Sega or Nintendo home console, this will be familiar.

 

Unless you owned a Neo-Geo. If you owned a Neo-Geo, your console experience would be identical to the arcade. The significance of this should not be understated. In 1992, you could have an arcade - perfect experience in your home. For context - this would not be the case for another two console cycles. It is generally agreed that the 2000 Dreamcast port of [Marvel vs.Capcom 2] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_vs._Capcom_2:_New_Age_of_Heroes#/media/File%3AMarvel_vs._Capcom_2_gameplay.png) was arcade perfect - aided in part by the arcade machine and Dreamcast using very similar boards. At this point in the console release timeline - the PlayStation 2 is out, and well on it’s way to becoming king.

 

Now a bit about the actual console. The Neo-Geo platform had home-system cartridges and MVS cartridges. The MVS cartridges are designed specifically for the stand-up, coin-operated cabinets that you would find in an arcade. The cartridges contain the game board, and are plugged directly into the machine. Arcade operators could swap out the game without swapping out the cabinet. MVS cartridges are a rectangular plastic box that houses a chipset. There is little in the way of decoration or artwork - usually just a marquee sticker with the game title that shipped in a cardboard packing box.

 

The home console vers

I won't be doing that today!

Welcome all to the 2020 edition of the /r/BaseballHoF ballot. The /r/BaseballHof is a project started by /u/MyCousinVinny to make our own version of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

This year’s ballot will feature everyone who remained on the ballot after the 2019 election as well as number of new comers.

You may vote for as many or as few candidates as you wish, it is entirely up to you. There is an abstain option when voting and please feel free to use it. Also feel free to take a look at and contribute more in the [nomination thread] (https://www.reddit.com/r/baseballHOF/comments/eoxcqs/2020_player_nomination_thread/) or down below. Also plenty of discussion in prior ballot and discussion threads. It's encouraged to make your case for players in the comments (I will fight for John Olerud until the day I die).

OK, on with the candidates:

Players' Ballot

Albert Belle Final Ballot

Bobby Abreu

Carlos Delgado

Chase Utley

David Wright

Hideki Matsui

Jamie Moyer

Jason Giambi

Jason Varitek

Jeff Kent

Johan Santana

John Olerud

Johnny Damon

Jorge Posada

Lance Berkman

Lee Smith Final Ballot

Mark Buehrle

Mark Teixeira

Nomar Garciaparra

Omar Vizquel

Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez

Paul Konerko

Prince Fielder

Roy Oswalt

Ryan Howard

Sammy Sosa

Steve Finley Final Ballot

Tim Hudson

Tim Wakefield

Torii Hunter

Victor Martinez

Will Clark Final Ballot

Newly Eligible Players

Brian McCann

Brian Roberts

CC Sabathia

Cliff Lee

Freddie Garcia

Ian Kinsler

Ichiro Suzuki

JJ Hardy

Jake Peavey

Jimmy Rollins

Kelly Gruber

Stephen Drew

Tommy Bridges

Troy Tulowitzki

Contributors' Ballot

Abe Isoo

Al Campanis

Al Munro Elias

Bob Murphy

Bowie Kuhn

Bruce Froemming

Buck Showalter

Bud Fowler

Carl Stotz

Cito Gaston

Davey Johnson

Doc Adams

Don Baylor

Don Zimmer

Dusty Baker

Ewing Kaufman

Fay Vincent

Felipe Alou

Gene Michael

Harry Wendelstedt

Jack McKeon

Jacques Doucet

Jerry Colangelo

Jerry Howarth

Joe Black

Joe Brinkman

Mike Ilitch

O.P. Caylor

Paul Beeston

Rod Dedeaux

Roland Hemond

Ron Shelton

Terry Collins

Tom Cheek

Tommy John

William Wheaton

[2020 Ballot] (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0wlw_oLCpb0bKOtdIyiqmq54FH_Tw4PXPohzLrhxsYs1Csg/viewform?usp=sf_link) will be open until 2/25/2020.

[RESULTS SPREADSHEET] (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N-Vp3YpV1Cw6KQ6Y38uMWUSIGxX_AleNZc-GSSeWgI4/edit?usp=sharing)

[HOF PLAYERS & CONTRIBUTORS] (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/

Thank you to the 267 people who submitted a ballot this year in the 2020 /r/BaseballHoF.

This year will see the induction of an NPB and MLB star Ichiro after appearing on 264 of 266 total ballots. Joining him will be the noted workhorse C.C. Sabathia getting 215 of 253 votes. Joining these two from the contributor’s ballot is Tommy John appearing on 65 of 80 ballots.

We also had two other players receive over 50% in this year’s election. The leading vote getter was Jeff Kent (53%), followed by Sammy Sosa (50%). On the contributor side Dusty Baker (67%), Buck Showalter (63%), Don Zimmer (56%), and Felipe Alou (55%) receiving 50% or more.

Falling off the ballot this year will be Albert Belle, Brian Roberts, Freddy Garcia, J.J. Hardy, Jake Peavey, Jason Varitek, Kelly Gruber, Lee Smith, Orlano “El Duque” Hernandez, Stephen Drew, Steve Finley, Tommy Bridges, Victor Martinez, and Will Clark after receiving less than 10% or reaching 15 years on the ballot. Joining them in the /r/BaseballHoF graveyard will be Terry Collins.

We also had a handful of write-in selections this year. Starting with the players (only mentioning those eligible for 2021 ballot):

For contributors Gene Autry, Hawk Harrelson, and Tom Grieve will be on the 2021 ballot.

[RESULTS SPREADSHEET] (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N-Vp3YpV1Cw6KQ6Y38uMWUSIGxX_AleNZc-GSSeWgI4/edit?usp=sharing)

[HOF PLAYERS & CONTRIBUTORS] (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XJZLo767PsBOV0py34hRIzV6j0pK3bmN9U8M8UM5CAM/edit?usp=sharing)

Here is the positional breakdown of our HOF so far.

Total HOFers - 359

HOF Players - 260

Hitters - 184

Pitchers - 77

C - 20

1B - 26

2B - 20

3B - 23

SS - 20

LF - 23

CF - 24

RF - 24

DH - 4

SP - 70

RP - 7

Starting Pitcher 70 - Addie Joss (1924), Amos Rusie (1958), Bert Blyleven (1992), Bob Feller (1956), Bob Gibson (1976), Bret Saberhagen (2014), Bullet Joe Rogan (1948), C.C. Sabathia (2020) Cannonball Dick Redding (1986), Carl Hubbell (1944), Christy Mathewson (1920), Curt Schilling (2008), Cy Young (1915), Dave Stieb (2014), David Cone (2014), Dazzy Vance (1938), Dizzy Dean (1952), Don Drysdale (1970), Don Sutton (1988), Early Wynn (1966), Ed Walsh (1922), Eddie Plank (1924), Fergie Jenkins (1984), Gaylord Perry (1984), Greg Maddux (2008), Hal Newhouser (1960), Hideo Fujimoto (1982), Hilton Smith (1962)

Welcome all to the 2019 edition of the /r/BaseballHoF ballot. The /r/BaseballHof is a project started by /u/MyCousinVinny to make our own better version of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Please take a minute to read and comment in the the [discussion thread.] (https://old.reddit.com/r/baseballHOF/comments/a8zhcn/2019_hall_of_fame_nomination_and_discussion_thread/) There is a ton of information in there. Also, feel free to check the comments as I and others will be making our final cases for our guys. Hopefully something we say can help to open the eyes of some voters for lesser known guys.

This year’s ballot will feature anyone from the 2018 ballot who received enough votes to stay on and didn't exceed the 15 ballot window as well as a number of new comers. In years past I had given every player who reached the 15 year limit or met a certain "yes" mark a second shot and unfortunately missed a number of players, so there will be a couple added on to this ballot as well and likely more in future installments. There will also be an optional Contributors' section. You may vote for as many or as few candidates as you wish, it is entirely up to you. Each user is limited to one ballot per person, if you feel you made a mistake please contact me, /u/Darkstargir.

There is an abstain option when voting and please feel free to use it.

OK, on with the candidates:

On to the contributors portion. We sadly have very few new additions this year so even if you choose not to participate feel free to nominate using the write in option.

Welcome all to the 2018 edition of the /r/BaseballHoF ballot. The /r/BaseballHof is a project started by /u/MyCousinVinny to make our own better version of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Please take a minute to read and comment in the the discussion thread. There is a ton of information in there. Also, feel free to check the comments as I and others will be making our final cases for our guys. Hopefully something we say can help to open the eyes of some voters for lesser known guys.

This year’s ballot will feature anyone from the 2017 ballot who received enough votes to stay on and didn't exceed the 15 ballot window as well as a number of new comers. In years past I had given every player who reached the 15 year limit or met a certain "yes" mark a second shot and unfortunately missed a number of players, so there will be a couple added on to this ballot as well and likely more in future installments. There will also be an optional Contributors' section. You may vote for as many or as few candidates as you wish, it is entirely up to you. Each user is limited to one ballot per person, if you feel you made a mistake please contact me, /u/Darkstargir.

There is an abstain option when voting and please feel free to use it.

OK, on with the candidates:

On to the contributors portion. We sadly have very few new additions this year so even if you choose not to participate feel free to nominate using the

I would like to start by thanking the 188 people who cast their vote this year and participated in the discussion, hope to see you next year and in any future discussion threads.

On to the results.

This year I'm going to start with those falling off the ballot. We have 13 players who will not appear on next years ballot due to either failing to get 10% of the vote, reaching 15 years on the ballot, or failing to be elected in their one year special election.

After them we had a number of write-in candidates:

And finally in 2019 we will have two players joining the /r/BaseballHOF. Receiving 97.2% of the vote in his first turn on the ballot the always reliable third baseman Adrian Beltre. Joining Adrian will be the good Minnesota boy catcher Joe Mauer after getting 90.8% of the vote in his first year as well. In addition to those two elected there were only five others to receive over 50%. Kirby Puckett (67.%,15th and final ballot), Chase Utley (61.6%, 1st), Jeff Kent (54.3%, 9th), Sammy Sosa (53.7%, 9th), and Johan Santana (51.8%, 6th).

On the contributor side of things we will have one electee joining in 2019. The free agent catalyst Curt Flood after finishing with 82.6% in his second attempt. There were four others to get over 50% this year Abe Isoo (64%, 4th), Don Zimmer (63.5%, 4th), Dusty Baker (52.8%, 4th), an

So it’s about that time. Welcome all to the 2016 edition of the /r/BaseballHoF ballot. The /r/BaseballHof is a project started by /u/MyCousinVinny to make our own version of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Also important note, feel free to discuss picks in the comments. Feel strongly about someone? Try to make a case for them so others can too see what you see. Discussion is absolutely encouraged.

This year’s [ballot] (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1U9ZlI87vNbxQoovfiE2tt8NupXYe5i6puV4VYKIvx2I/viewform) will feature hold-overs from last year's Final Ballot and assorted others who fared well in our Veterans' Committee discussions, and of course newly eligible players who retired this past offseason. There will also be an optional Contributors' section.

There are two ways to vote in this election. Feel free to do both methods as both ballots will count! Follow the link at the bottom of this page to submit a ballot via the Google Form. You may also submit a ballot below in the comment thread. For this method, please rank your players from most deserving to least deserving. You may vote for as many or as few candidates as you wish, but please list at least 10 players in your comment ballot, even if you wish to vote for fewer, just make note where your ballot cuts off. Think of the other names as a 'close, but no cigar section'. You may also submit a contributors ballot via this method.

OK, on with the candidates:

Players' Ballot

Albert Belle

Andy 'Lefty' Cooper

Billy Wagner

Bobby Abreu

Buddy Bell

Carlos Delgado

Chris Carpenter

Chuck Klein

Dale Murphy

Darrell Evans

Eric Chavez

Ernie Lombardi

Hack Wilson

Hideki Matsui

Hugh Duffy

Jamie Moyer

Jeff Kent

Jim Rice

Johan Santana

John Olerud

Johnny Damon

Jorge Posada

Jose Mendez

Kirby Puckett

Lance Berkman

Lee Smith

Lefty Gomez

Leon Day

Magglio Ordonez

Michael Young

Minnie Minoso

Nomar Garciaparra

Omar Vizquel

Orlando Cepeda

Paul Konerko

Pie Traynor

Ray Brown

Reggie Smith

Rick Reuschel

Roy Oswalt

Sachio Kinugasa

Sam Rice

Sammy Sosa

Smoky Joe Wood

Tim Wakefield

Tom Henke

Tommy John

Vic Willis

Will Clark

Willie Randolph

Newly Eligible Players

Aramis Ramirez

Barry Zito

Dan Haren

Francisco Cordero

Jeremy Affeldt

LaTroy Hawkins

Marco Scutaro

Michael Cuddyer

Rafael Furcal

Tim Hudson

Torii Hunter

Willie Bloomquist

Contributors' Ballot

Abe Isoo

Al Campanis

Al Munro Elias

Bill James

Bowie Kuhn

Bruce Froemming

Charlie Manuel

Cito Gaston

Davey

Welcome all to the 2017 edition of the /r/BaseballHoF ballot. The /r/BaseballHof is a project started by /u/MyCousinVinny to make our own version of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

This year’s ballot will feature the entirety of last year’s ballot as to allow for discussion on them which was missed last year and of course newly eligible players who retired this past offseason. There will also be an optional Contributors' section. You may vote for as many or as few candidates as you wish, it is entirely up to you.

There is an abstain option when voting and please feel free to use it.

OK, on with the candidates:

Players' Ballot

Albert Belle

Andy 'Lefty' Cooper

Aramis Ramirez

Barry Zito

Billy Wagner

Bobby Abreu

Buddy Bell

Carlos Delgado

Chris Carpenter

Chuck Klein

Dale Murphy

Dan Haren

Darrell Evans

Eric Chavez

Ernie Lombardi

Francisco Cordero

Hack Wilson

Hideki Matsui

Hugh Duffy

Jamie Moyer

Jeff Kent

Jeremy Affeldt

Jim Rice

Johan Santana

John Olerud

Johnny Damon

Jorge Posada

Jose Mendez

Kirby Puckett

Lance Berkman

LaTroy Hawkins

Lee Smith

Lefty Gomez

Leon Day

Magglio Ordonez

Marco Scutaro

Michael Cuddyer

Michael Young

Minnie Minoso

Nomar Garciaparra

Omar Vizquel

Orlando Cepeda

Paul Konerko

Pie Traynor

Rafael Furcal

Ray Brown

Reggie Smith

Rick Reuschel

Roy Oswalt

Sachio Kinugasa

Sam Rice

Sammy Sosa

Smoky Joe Wood

Tim Hudson

Tim Wakefield

Tom Henke

Tommy John

Torii Hunter

Vic Willis

Will Clark

Willie Bloomquist

Willie Randolph

Newly Eligible Players

Adam LaRoche

Alex Rodriguez

Brad Penny

Chone Figgins

David Ortiz

David Ross

Jamey Wright

Mark Teixeira

Matt Thornton

Prince Fielder

Rafael Soriano

Contributors' Ballot

Abe Isoo

Al Campanis

Al Munro Elias

Bowie Kuhn

Bruce Froemming

Charlie Manuel

Cito Gaston

Davey Johnson

Don Baylor

Don Zimmer

Dusty Baker

Ewing Kaufman

Felipe Alou

Gene Michael

Harry Wendelstedt

Jack McKeon

Jerry Colangelo

Joe Brinkman

Lou Piniella

Mike Ilitch

O.P. Caylor

Roland Hemond

Russ Hodges

Tom Cheek

Tom Yawkey

William Wheaton

That's 74 player names for your consideration, and 26 contributors. Remember, you can vote twice, once in the Google Form, and once in the comments below. Be ready to defend your choices if doing the latter. I will post the ballot after 00/00/0000 to allow for discussion prior to collecting votes. So please feel free to discuss and tell us all why you think someone should be elected, this is extremely helpful

Welcome all to the 2017 edition of the /r/BaseballHoF ballot. The /r/BaseballHof is a project started by /u/MyCousinVinny to make our own better version of the Baseball Hall of Fame. [Please take a minute to read and comment in the the discussion thread. There is a ton of information in there.] (https://www.reddit.com/r/baseballHOF/comments/5xxa8o/2017_hall_of_fame_discussion_thread/) Also, feel free to check the comments as I and others will be making our final cases for our guys. Hopefully something we say can help to open the eyes of some voters for lesser known guys.

This year’s ballot will feature the entirety of last year’s ballot as to allow for discussion on them which was missed last year and of course newly eligible players who retired this past offseason. There will also be an optional Contributors' section. You may vote for as many or as few candidates as you wish, it is entirely up to you. Each user is limited to one ballot per person, if you feel you made a mistake please contact myself.

There is an abstain option when voting and please feel free to use it.

OK, on with the candidates:

Players' Ballot

Albert Belle

Andy 'Lefty' Cooper

Aramis Ramirez

Barry Zito

Billy Wagner

Bobby Abreu

Buddy Bell

Carlos Delgado

Chris Carpenter

Chuck Klein

Dale Murphy

Dan Haren

Darrell Evans

Eric Chavez

Ernie Lombardi

Francisco Cordero

Hack Wilson

Hideki Matsui

Hugh Duffy

Jamie Moyer

Jason Giambi

Jeff Kent

Jeremy Affeldt

Jim Rice

Johan Santana

John Olerud

Johnny Damon

Jorge Posada

Jose Mendez

Kirby Puckett

Lance Berkman

LaTroy Hawkins

Lee Smith

Lefty Gomez

Leon Day

Magglio Ordonez

Marco Scutaro

Michael Cuddyer

Michael Young

Minnie Minoso

Nomar Garciaparra

Omar Vizquel

Orlando Cepeda

Paul Konerko

Pie Traynor

Rafael Furcal

Ray Brown

Reggie Smith

Rick Reuschel

Roy Oswalt

Sachio Kinugasa

Sam Rice

Sammy Sosa

Smoky Joe Wood

Tim Hudson

Tim Wakefield

Tom Henke

Tommy John

Torii Hunter

Vic Willis

Will Clark

Willie Bloomquist

Willie Randolph

Newly Eligible Players

Adam LaRoche

Alex Rodriguez

Brad Penny

Chone Figgins

David Ortiz

David Ross

Jamey Wright

Mark Teixeira

Matt Thornton

Prince Fielder

Rafael Soriano

Contributors' Ballot

Abe Isoo

Al Campanis

Al Munro Elias

Bowie Kuhn

Bruce Froemming

Charlie Manuel

Cito Gaston

Davey Johnson

Don Baylor

Don Zimmer

Dusty Baker

Ewing Kaufman

Felipe Alou

Gene Michael

Harry Wendelstedt

Jack McKeon

Jerry Colangelo

Joe Brinkman

Lou

Prologue | Chapter 32

#Chapter 31 - The Other Side of the Coin

When Julie woke up in the night, it was all very strange. First of all, she didn’t know why she woke up, not until she realised she needed to pee, which was very strange because she always went before going to bed. Second of all, she was still wearing her dayclothes, which she only did when they were camping. Third of all, she was so close to Sammy that every breath tickled.

So very slowly, the evening before came back to her.

A flush spread across her face and neck, ears hearing the echoes of their kisses—such weird sounds—heart thumping in her chest. Her hand came up to touch her lips, a gentle ache starting now she remembered. How different kisses could be.

It hadn’t been the soft and light kisses they usually did, instead something almost… desperate. Julie couldn’t exactly remember what she had been thinking, but she knew she’d felt like she needed to be closer to Sammy.

Before Julie could think any more of their passionate kissing, her bladder reminded her why she’d woken up. That calmed her down. Careful, she pried herself away from Sammy, only to then have Sammy reach out, holding her still.

“I need to pee,” Julie mumbled.

Julie wasn’t sure if Sammy had heard her (or was awake enough to understand), but the grip on her clothes soon relaxed.

“I’ll be back soon.”

Away from the warmth of the bed, Julie’s murky mind cooled off and, after relieving herself, she changed into her nightwear. As carefully as she’d left, she tried to slip back into the bed. However, once she stopped shuffling, Sammy clung to her again.

Julie was ready to laugh at how pointless her carefulness had been, but Sammy stilled her with a gentle kiss on the forehead. “Love you,” Sammy mumbled, her eyes closed.

For a long few seconds, Julie just stared at the outline of Sammy in the near darkness. Her heart pounded in her chest, but it was different, different to the times before. Different to whenever she’d worked her body hard, different to whenever Sammy had flirted with her.

The more Julie thought about it, she realised her heart wasn’t really pounding, but singing. It was like it wanted her to listen to it, which made her start thinking about wanting to listen to Sammy’s. She wanted to know if Sammy’s heart beat like hers, if it beat quick wh

Hello again! Happy Spring Training, everybody!

We wrapped up the /r/baseballHOF project last fall, but with the caveat that each spring we'd come back to do one more vote. Well, here it is. This week, we'll have an open discussion thread and a Google poll in which to submit our ballots.

This week's ballot will feature hold-overs from last fall's Final Ballot and assorted others who fared well in our Veterans' Committee discussions, and of course newly eligible players who retired this past offseason. There will also be an optional Contributors' section.

There are two ways to vote in this election. Feel free to do both methods as both ballots will count! Follow the link at the bottom of this page to submit a ballot via the Google Form.

You may also submit a ballot below in the comment thread. For this method, please rank your players from most deserving to least deserving. You may vote for as many or as few candidates as you wish, but please list at least 10 players in your comment ballot, even if you wish to vote for fewer, just make note where your ballot cuts off. Think of the other names as a 'close, but no cigar section'. You may also submit a contributors ballot via this method.

OK, on with the candidates:

Players' Ballot

Albert Belle

Andy 'Lefty' Cooper

Billy Wagner

Buddy Bell

Carlos Delgado

Chuck Klein

Dale Murphy

Darrell Evans

Ernie Lombardi

Hack Wilson

Hugh Duffy

Jeff Kent

Jim Rice

John Olerud

Jorge Posada

Jose Mendez

Kirby Puckett

Lance Berkman

Lee Smith

Lefty Gomez

Leon Day

Minnie Minoso

Orlando Cepeda

Pie Traynor

Ray Brown

Reggie Smith

Rick Reuschel

Rollie Fingers

Sam Rice

Sammy Sosa

Smoky Joe Wood

Thurman Munson

Tom Henke

Tommy John

Vic Willis

Will Clark

Willie Randolph

Newly Eligible Players

Adam Dunn

Alfonso Soriano

Bobby Abreu

Brian Roberts

Derek Jeter

Eric Chavez

Jason Giambi

Josh Beckett

Juan Pierre

Kevin Youkilis

Mark Ellis

Paul Konerko

Ryan Dempster

Contributors' Ballot

Bowie Kuhn

Bruce Froemming

Charlie Manuel

Cito Gaston

Davey Johnson

Don Zimmer

Ewing Kaufman

Gene Michael

George Steinbrenner

Harry Wendelstedt

Jack McKeon

Jim Leyland

Joe Brinkman

Joe Garagiola

Lou Piniella

Mike Ilitch

Roland Hemond

Russ Hodges

Tom Cheek

Tom Yawkey

That's 50 player names for your consideration, and 20 contributors. Remember, you can vote twice, once in

We've reached the end of this chapter of the /r/baseballHOF project. We have no more new players to consider, but even after electing four new players last week (see full results here), and 233 players to date in this project, we have a good number of candidates that deserve further consideration. Listed below are all of the non-elected players that have received at least 25% of the vote in a previous election.

While we are wrapping up our voting here, that doesn't mean this subreddit is going away. I'd like to use this post to officially announce our next project, a year-by-year historical re-vote of major awards. While the details are not yet set and are up for discussion, I'd just like to let anyone interested know that we'll likely be starting that project in the coming weeks. So stay tuned for an official introduction announcement that I'll be posting shortly after we wrap-up this week's voting.

We'll also be revisiting our HOF here yearly to review newly eligible candidates. That will likely take place in the spring.

Last week we elected four new HOF players. Mariano Rivera, Roy Halladay, and Todd Helton were our final new candidates to be elected on their first ballot attempt. Andruw Jones joined them in his second attempt.

Falling just a vote short are some guys who figure to be interesting candidates for our final ballot, Fred McGriff and Scott Rolen with 72% each. Kevin Brown (67%), Jim Edmonds (61%) and Billy Wagner (50%) were the only other candidates to receive support from at least half the voters.

This week's ballot is going to be a hybrid combining a few different methods that we've utilized in our past elections. First off on this ballot, featuring the players listed below, check off any and all players you feel deserve to be considered in next week's final ballot. Those players will all receive one point.

Next, in a post below, list your top 10 choices for further consideration. These players can be either those in the list below or anyone else you feel deserves consideration, as long as he is not already elected into the /r/baseballHOF. In your listing, please rank the players. Your top choice will receive 10 points, second 9, third 8, etc.

Nobody will be elected this week; this exercise is mere

LINK to 2008 BALLOT - Closes at 11:59 p.m. PDT Saturday, August 2, 2014

RESULTS of 2006 and all previous elections

The /r/baseball Hall of Fame

Thank you for taking part in the /r/baseball Hall of Fame. The /r/baseball HOF was established as a means of starting a fresh Hall of Fame from scratch, to correct the mistakes made by the actual Hall. To keep up with the project please subscribe to /r/baseballHOF

To vote in this election, please follow the link above to a Google Form survey ballot. If a favorite player of yours is not listed on the ballot, and should be eligible, please use the text box to let me know and I will include him in the next ballot. To be eligible, a player must be retired by the date of the election, or essentially retired, that is he played in fewer than 10 games total in the years following the election. Also, a player must not already be elected to the /r/baseball HOF.

A player who appears in 15 elections without being elected will be removed from the ballot.

To remain on the ballot, a player is required to obtain yes votes on at least 10% of total ballots. All contributors who receive at least one vote will appear on the next ballot. See below for more info.

Those players who fall off the ballot will be referred to the Veterans Committee, which can be found at /r/baseballHOFVC

The complete results from 2006 can be found on the spreadsheet linked above. Check out the HOF tab for information on those we've enshrined so far.

Last week we posted the thread directly to r/baseball. Thank you to the moderators over there for setting that up, and welcome to all the new voters that are joining us going forward. We had 70 ballots cast last week, by far the most we've had in any one election in this project.

We have just one new HOF player this week. Long-time Astros first baseman Jeff Bagwell was named on 65/70 ballots cast (93%).

The top vote-getters of the non-elected players were Rollie Fingers (74.3%), Kirby Puckett (71.1%), Larry Walker (68.6%), Fred McGriff (58.6%), David Cone (45.7%), Dwight Gooden (45.7%), Tommy John (44.3%), Rafael Palmeiro (44.3%), Orel Hershiser (42.9%), Dale Murphy (40%),

LINK to 2012 BALLOT - Closes at 11:59 p.m. PDT Saturday, August 16, 2014

RESULTS of 2010 and all previous elections

The /r/baseball Hall of Fame

Thank you for taking part in the /r/baseball Hall of Fame. The /r/baseball HOF was established as a means of starting a fresh Hall of Fame from scratch, to correct the mistakes made by the actual Hall. To keep up with the project please subscribe to /r/baseballHOF

To vote in this election, please follow the link above to a Google Form survey ballot. If a favorite player of yours is not listed on the ballot, and should be eligible, please use the text box to let me know and I will include him in the next ballot. To be eligible, a player must be retired by the date of the election, or essentially retired, that is he played in fewer than 10 games total in the years following the election. Also, a player must not already be elected to the /r/baseball HOF.

A player who appears in 15 elections without being elected will be removed from the ballot.

To remain on the ballot, a player is required to obtain yes votes on at least 10% of total ballots. All contributors who receive at least one vote will appear on the next ballot. See below for more info.

Those players who fall off the ballot will be referred to the Veterans Committee, which can be found at /r/baseballHOFVC

The complete results from 2010 can be found on the spreadsheet linked above. Check out the HOF tab for information on those we've enshrined so far.

We had 28 ballots cast last week, and we elected seven new HOFers, all first-timers on our ballot. The Kid Ken Griffey Jr. was a unanimous selection. Expos and Red Sox ace Pedro Martinez was named on 93% of ballots. His Red Sox teammate Manny Ramirez was selected by 89% of voters as were aces John Smoltz. Mike Mussina, and Randy Johnson. Joining the class of 2012 with exactly 75% of the vote is longtime Padres closer Trevor Hoffman.

The top vote-getters of the non-elected players were Kenny Lofton (71%) and Larry Walker (71%) who both missed by a single vote. Also coming up just short were Gary Sheffield (64%), Rafael Palmeiro (61%), Fred McGriff (57%

LINK to 2010 BALLOT - Closes at 11:59 p.m. PDT Saturday, August 9, 2014

RESULTS of 2008 and all previous elections

The /r/baseball Hall of Fame

Thank you for taking part in the /r/baseball Hall of Fame. The /r/baseball HOF was established as a means of starting a fresh Hall of Fame from scratch, to correct the mistakes made by the actual Hall. To keep up with the project please subscribe to /r/baseballHOF

To vote in this election, please follow the link above to a Google Form survey ballot. If a favorite player of yours is not listed on the ballot, and should be eligible, please use the text box to let me know and I will include him in the next ballot. To be eligible, a player must be retired by the date of the election, or essentially retired, that is he played in fewer than 10 games total in the years following the election. Also, a player must not already be elected to the /r/baseball HOF.

A player who appears in 15 elections without being elected will be removed from the ballot.

To remain on the ballot, a player is required to obtain yes votes on at least 10% of total ballots. All contributors who receive at least one vote will appear on the next ballot. See below for more info.

Those players who fall off the ballot will be referred to the Veterans Committee, which can be found at /r/baseballHOFVC

The complete results from 2008 can be found on the spreadsheet linked above. Check out the HOF tab for information on those we've enshrined so far.

Last week we posted the results thread directly to r/baseball. Thank you to the moderators over there for setting that up, and welcome to all the new voters that are joining us going forward.

We had 50 ballots cast last week, and we elected eight new HOFers, all first-timers on our ballot. Braves aces Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine led the voting at 96% and 92% respectively. Craig Biggio and Frank Thomas followed at 88% each, with Mike Piazza right behind them at 86%. Barely making the cut were Barry Bonds, Curt Schilling and Roger Clemens.

The top vote-getters of the non-elected players were Mike Mussina (60%), Larry Walker (56%), Rollie Fingers (

LINK to 2013 BALLOT - Closes at 11:59 p.m. PDT Saturday, August 23, 2014

RESULTS of 2012 and all previous elections

The /r/baseball Hall of Fame

Thank you for taking part in the /r/baseball Hall of Fame. The /r/baseball HOF was established as a means of starting a fresh Hall of Fame from scratch, to correct the mistakes made by the actual Hall. To keep up with the project please subscribe to /r/baseballHOF

To vote in this election, please follow the link above to a Google Form survey ballot. If a favorite player of yours is not listed on the ballot, and should be eligible, please use the text box to let me know and I will include him in the next ballot. To be eligible, a player must be retired by the date of the election, or essentially retired, that is he played in fewer than 10 games total in the years following the election. Also, a player must not already be elected to the /r/baseball HOF.

A player who appears in 15 elections without being elected will be removed from the ballot.

To remain on the ballot, a player is required to obtain yes votes on at least 10% of total ballots. All contributors who receive at least one vote will appear on the next ballot. See below for more info.

Those players who fall off the ballot will be referred to the Veterans Committee, which can be found at /r/baseballHOFVC

The complete results from 2012 can be found on the spreadsheet linked above. Check out the HOF tab for information on those we've enshrined so far.

This week's election (2013) will be our last featuring new players. We will hold one more election next week to give holdovers another chance. Our Veteran's Committee is still working, currently looking at players of the late 1970's and early 1980's. The committee will continue looking at players and contributors even though next week will be our last ballot here. If you are interested in nreamining with the project, please send myself or /u/IAMADeinonychusAMA a message and we'll add you to the Veterans' Committee.

We had 16 ballots cast last week, and we elected eight new HOFers. Elected unanimously we're first-timers on our ballot Chipper Jones, Ivan Rodriguez and **Jim

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

Thank you to the 101 people who submitted a ballot this year in the 2018 /r/BaseballHoF.

This year will see the induction of former Rookie of the Year Carlos Beltran who was named on 92.9% of the ballots in his first year. Joining him on his eighth ballot will be dominant closer Billy Wagner squeaking in with 78%. From the contributor ballot we saw Bob Costas make it on his first attempt receiving 77.1% of the vote.

We also had several players receive over 50% in this year’s election. The leading vote getter was Sammy Sosa (68.3% on his eighth ballot), Kirby Puckett (65.7%, 14th), Johan Santana (65.6%, 5th), and Jeff Kent (55.6%, 8th). On the contributor side Curt Flood (73.3), Don Zimmer (72.7%), Bruce Froemming (60%), Harry Wendelstadt (60%), Mike Ilitch (59.4%), Russ Hodges (59.1%), Davey Johnson (52%), Al Munro Elias (50%), Bowie Kuhn (50%), Felipe Alou (50%), and Gene Michael (50%) receiver 50% or more.

Falling off the ballot this year will be Kent Tekulve, Grady Sizemore, Magglio Ordonez, Barry Zito, Chris Carpenter, Matt Cain, Jered Weaver, Aramis Ramirez, Javier Lopez, Ben Sheets, Carlos Lee, Nick Swisher, Jeff Francouer, Rafael Soriano, Derrek Lee, Bronson Arroyo, Glen Perkins, Melvin Mora, Dan Haren, Rafael Furcal, Ryan Vogelsong, David Ross, Randy Choate, Josh Johnson, and Dan Quisenberry after receiving less than 10% or reaching 15 years on the ballot. Joining them in the /r/BaseballHoF graveyard will be Russ Hodges and Tom Yawkey.

We also had a handful of write-in selections this year. Starting with the players: