Quickly our perspective changes in this incessant dynamism of baseball news.
We barely talked about champagne baseball and now, as if we wanted to get to something badly cyclical: stories of great ballplayers, who may not be able to enter the Professional Baseball Hall of Fame despite their merits.
They should put a sign at the entrance of said venue in Cooperstown, New York, with something like a warning, which says: “You are entering a Baseball Museum with enthroned people chosen by a committee”, as a joke, it was said. go up doable in instances.
Why the idea? Well, we are facing more probable injustices regarding the denial of access to true ball horses and the truth that the same press in the United States has been in charge of making us aware of this new probable trampling of history.
It is curious how the intertwined stories of these two big balls go with links to two teams marked by the sadly famous spying scandal, two franchises with prominence and many millions on their current payroll: none other than the proud New York Yankees and the now extremely stellar Houston Astros.
Specifically, we are talking about the case of the great left-handed Andy Petite and the tremendous batter Carlos Beltranthey are going to discuss that the first openly accepted his relationship with, let’s say, restricted substances, while the second is blamed (while being a coach) for direct interference in the aforementioned case of cameras to detect signs of the rival teams.
For this author, everything makes sense in that they are going to want to judge and sentence them (if that term is allowed) to the bad, from that voting entity called the Baseball Writers Association of the United States (BBWAA), making the yours over and over again.
The worst thing is not only that, it is how we see that press sowing notes with “such a candidate may well have arguments” to start justifying or covering up this new maneuver.
Dear readers, we are talking about that BASEBALL HISTORY that we boast so much about… it is in the hands of voters with visible prejudices outside the diamond of exploits.
Already in the most current and in a contractual matter, the arbitration worked for 170 ballplayers, leaving 33 of them outside that figure, although… the market is the market and the case of Juan Sotowho turned down hundreds of millions of dollars for a one-year, $23.1 million extension with the San Diego Padres.
In case of Trevor Bauerapparently, we will have to analyze it with more subsequent elements.
