Baseball HOF voting takes place today. Here's the full list of candidates.

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4. It will be interesting to see how the purists who wont vote for 'roid users handle David Ortiz

It was well known around baseball that 'roids followed Manny Ramirez around and that the Red Sox would liekly have looked very bad if anyone else had written the Mitchell report. Mitchell was well known to be a big Red Sox fan and went out of his way to look the Yankees look bad and did little to investigate the 'baggy shirt antics' or Ramirez and Ortiz and the other Red Sox. But, the guys who were suspected of using 'rids and were nice to the media seem to get away with.



On a separate note -- Hard to believe that anyone who actually ever watched a baseball game thinks that Scotty Rolen is more deserving of the HoF than Omar Vizquel who may be the best defensive shortstop to ever play the game. He didn't do a back flip on opening day to draw notoriety but as someone who watched him nearly every day when he was with the Indians -- it was jaw dropping.

I thought Davey Concepcion and bouncing the ball off the astroturf was brilliant and Ozzie Smith had exceptional range-- but neither of them were nearly as good as Vizquel.