I'm going to move future game blogging to my Patreon page. I will occasionally make comments about non-gaming (i.e. sports stuff) here, but the gaming stuff fits more over there. I'll be starting my YouTube channel soon, so keep an eye out for that! As far as the Hall of Fame voting, in all honesty, there…
Hall of Fame Coverage
I deeply apologize to you, dear readers. I have been quite busy with other projects and have failed you. We have two Hall of Fame ballots to discuss for baseball and I haven't talked about either one! Shall we? Yes, I believe we shall! Author's note: They went and elected people to the HOF while this article was…
Vladimir Guerrero: Hall or Not?
Fangraphs says probably not, given that Jim Edmonds and Larry Walker were clearly superior, yet nobody's heart would be broken if he got in. I personally liked him quite a bit. He was fun to watch. He's got good, not great, numbers. Unlike the other two important guys on the HOF ballot next year, Ivan…
Your 2016 Hall of Fame Class is…
Mike Piazza and Ken Griffey Jr. Full voting results are at Baseball Reference, and paint an interesting picture. To whit: -- Bagwell has 71.6% of the vote, while Tim Raines has 69.8% and Trevor Hoffman has 67.3%. One or all of them could make the Hall next year. There's one obvious first ballot guy in 2017…
Your belated 2016 HOF coverage
I have done you, dear reader, a grave disservice in not inundating you Hall of Fame coverage. I cannot make up for this in a single post, but I will cover the newcomers for 2016. Perhaps that will be enough? According to Ryan Theriot's brilliant HOF tracker, things are looking good for the obvious choices.…
Bonds loses collusion case
MLB won their arbitration case today against Barry Bonds. The arbiter ruled that MLB did not collude to keep Bonds off of a major league roster. Deadspin suggests that this is good for Bonds, as he'll slowly work his way back into baseball, and indeed has been doing some work with the Giants. It would…
Chase Utley to the HOF?
Fivethirtyeight had a great post about Chase Utley and his chances to get inducted into the HOF. Based on JAWS, Jay Jaffe's system for evaluating a player's peak in terms of WAR, Utley is one of the very best second basemen of all time. The article compares his peak to that of Jackie Robinson, which…
Turns out, Barry Bonds was pretty damn awesome
Fivethirtyeight ran a poll, asking how much people who used PEDs should have their careers altered. 41% said ignore the controversy and take stats as is -- my view as well -- but a sizable proportion also said to simply discount the stats. Click the link for more, but here's the scary part. If you take…
Meet the 2015 class of the Video Game Hall of Fame
I wrote about the Video Game Hall of Fame and its inaugural class a few weeks ago. Here are your results. I was right on four of them, the four I thought were slam dunks: Tetris, Pac-Man, Pong, and Super Mario Bros. I assumed there'd be five winners; my #5 pick was the Sims, based on…
Another Hall of Fame to complain about! Yay!
As I learned from the AV Club, Video Games are getting their very own Hall of Fame (as part of the National Toy Museum in Rochester, NY. There are fifteen nominees. Although the balloting process is not clear, AV Club says that the panel will be composed of "journalists, scholars, and other video game experts."…
36 Chambers - The Legendary Journeys: Execution to the max! 