Small Hall, but big ballot? Discussing, disclosing 2023 votes for Cooperstown

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Another year, another Hall of Fame debate. Each winter, the Hot Stove gives way to the Hall of Fame, and while there is a limited number of voters, there are numerous opinions for how they should vote. Continuing an annual episode here at Best Podcast in Baseball, host and baseball writer Derrick Goold discusses his ballot for the 2023 National Baseball Hall of Fame inductions -- the votes, the close calls, the concerns, and hopefully the consistently. Kevin Wheeler, host of drive time at KMOX/1120 AM, joins to share the ballot he put together for MLB Network Radio and quiz Goold on his choices with both questions and criticisms. A crux of the conversation is what to do with great players who were suspended for positive PED tests and whether it's possible to be a fan of a small Hall but a voter with a big ballot. Closing out its 10th year, the Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design of St. Louis, is a production of StlToday.com, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Derrick Goold.

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0:00.0	The best podcast in baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design.
0:05.6	Update your closet, garage, office, pantry, and more.
0:09.0	Imagine your home totally organized with closets by design.
0:12.6	Call 1-800 by design.
0:14.4	That's 1-800 by design.
0:17.1	If we're going to do things like that, let's just get it all together and say,
0:20.1	listen, here are the things that you cannot be in the Hall of Fame floor.
0:23.7	We're altering the story where we're making it seem like it's something that it's not.
0:28.9	Like, it's, it's okay to tell the story the way it happened and not give us the Disney
0:33.7	version of it, right?
0:34.9	I don't need the Disney version.
0:37.0	I would like the real version of the sports history.
0:39.5	It's a museum.
0:40.8	It's not a church.
0:42.1	It's a museum.
0:42.9	So we can tell the whole story of the game.
0:48.9	Hello, everybody.
0:49.7	And welcome to the best podcast in baseball,
0:51.4	brought to you by closet by design of St. Louis.
0:53.3	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer writer Derek Gould join this week right off the top with a return engagement to talk about Hall of Fame voting.
1:04.3	Hall of Fame.
1:05.1	Well, we don't know the Hall of Fame results yet, but how we each one about our separate ballots.
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