Kenny Lofton Makes His Case for The Hall Of Fame

Dugout Discussions with Chris Rose

Jomboy Media

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Get Huel today with this exclusive offer of 15% OFF + a FREE Gift at https://huel.com/rose15 Cleveland sports legend Kenny Lofton joins Chris Rose to talk about his time on the Indians, college days at Arizona, the best plays of his career, and his case to make the MLB Hall of Fame. 0:00 Inro 1:40 Kenny could have played past 40 2:59 Getting traded to Cleveland and how he was perceived 4:49 Cleveland shifting from bottom feeders to contenders 7:35 Manny being Manny 8:51 Albert Belle stories 15:39 Playing college basketball at Arizona 19:35 Arizona’s 1988 Final Four run 23:42 Getting traded from Houston to Cleveland 26:00 Kenny’s “I made it” moment 27:53 Ricky Henderson’s influence on Kenny 31:50 Personalities on the 95 Indians 34:12 Failure to improve after 95 World Series run 35:30 Being traded away from Cleveland 38:10 2025 Hall of Fame Class 40:30 Contemporary committee HOF voting 43:52 Kenny’s HOF case 50:38 How many steals Kenny could get today 52:34 Best plays of Kenny’s career 56:35 Sluggball 58:15 Can you still dunk? 1:01:03 Sign off Watch Blitzball Battle 5 NOW: https://www.youtube.com/@WarehouseGames Follow all of our content on https://jomboymedia.com JM Merch Store: https://shop.jomboymedia.com/ Featuring: Kenny Lofton Hosted by: Chris Rose Edited by: Alex Graap #JMBaseball

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode number 271 of the Chris Rose Rotation, a production of John Boy Media,
0:06.3	honored and pleased to be joined by one of my favorite players of all time.
0:10.2	He was at the top of the Cleveland Order of the mid-90s that made a lot of people rediscover their love of baseball.
0:18.0	He is the former All-Star, and fingers crossed, possibly future Hall of
0:22.8	Famer. We will get to that. Kenny Lofton, good to see you, man. How are you? I can't complain.
0:27.5	All good. I'm just, you know, just living the dream, man. Just enjoying life right now.
0:32.1	Well, let me start with this. You're 57 years old. You look like you could still steal about 30 pack what the heck are you doing
0:40.2	that a guy like me is not because I look like I've been a little bit under a freeway for a while
0:44.1	I have a little gray I don't have a whole lot I have a little bit um I don't know I don't drink
0:50.6	I don't smoke I don't do drugs so maybe that's something that I help. A lot of
0:54.8	guys like to drink. And I just don't. So maybe that helps me a little bit. And I don't know. I just
1:00.9	take care of myself. If you had to steal a base at your age right now, could you do it?
1:10.3	Maybe not. My right leg, my left leg can steal it, but my right leg can't.
1:16.4	So I would be going around in circles like we're Fred Saffer, you know.
1:21.6	Honey, I'm coming to join you because my one leg is going to other will stop, you know,
1:24.7	so that's how I would be right now.
1:28.3	Yeah.
1:29.9	How fast are you?
1:32.4	I'm not that fast anymore.
1:32.9	No.
1:34.3	No, no, no.
1:35.5	No.
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