Committee Rulz

With Ron Santo being excluded from the Hall of Fame once again, perhaps he can finally realize a few things:

1) He’s pretty damn lucky he didn’t get in. Beyond the fact that his exclusion has kept him very high profile, it’s also kept him employed. Given how awful of a broadcaster he is, WGN probably would have replaced him long ago had Santo been elected. But having him on every game keeps the controversy alive.

2) To listen to Ron continue to beg for induction is downright insulting to Cub fane everywhere. What? Has everyone forgotten the last weekend of 2003? Oh, ye of short memory...

"I'm so overwhelmed. I can't tell you how much this means to me," an emotional Santo said before the Cubs played the New York Mets on Monday night.

"I don't care if I get into the Hall of Fame. This is my Hall of Fame. And I really mean it. I can't explain it, but this is the ultimate."

I guess he didn’t mean it.

For Santo to openly campaign for enshrinement in the Hall after making this statement on September 28, 2003 to a packed Wrigley Field crowd and a TV audience is disrespectful to all of us fans. Santo said he didn’t need Cooperstown because he had us and his 10 flag.

Liar.

3) The Hall of Fame’s Gang of 84 can finally be disbanded. While there is a certain logic to Joe Morgan’s assertion that there’s no reason for the Veteran’s Committee to vote in players who were passed over fifteen times by the Baseball Writers, there is follow on logic from that reasoning. If the purpose of the Committee is to right those wrongs made by the press, and the press has made no wrongs, it doesn’t take Mr. Spock to conclude that the Veteran’s Committee has self determined that it has no purpose existing.

4) Bruce Miles Bruce Levine did Ron a huge solid by calling out the Veteran’s Committee and Joe Morgan on today’s Hall of Fame conference call. ESPN 1000 radio scooped everyone by playing a clip of Bruce downright berating the process, the Veteran’s Committee, and the insipid Joe Morgan. If anyone has an MP3 of that clip, please send it here to post for posterity.

:::UPDATE:::
Here's Bruce Levine telling off Joe Morgan. Great stuff.