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Originally posted by Hammer755
Now I understand that a change in era forces you to look at players and especially stats differently, but the era won't change between now and when you think Rice deserves to be enshrined.
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Yeah, I usually try to be an empirical thinker but I confess, in this case I allowed myself to be sentimental, which is I guess kind of some of the fun of the HOF. Also, I didn't take another look at Rice's stats before I voted this year. If I had I probably would have kept him on my ballot. But something kept me from looking and there's something to that.
As for Sandberg, I think I'm just trying to respect history. There are a lot of truly great players in the HOF who didn't go first ballot, and for Sandberg to do it to me is just not ideal. Since the HOF doesn't distinguish between Mike Schmidt and Bobby Doerr, it's as if keeping someone off the ballot for a period is the only way of differentiating the greatest from the merely great.