> > Such a long time ago. Shame the others don't really post anymore. > > Yep. Had some of the emulated items been emulated long ago such as handheld games, I > might have been tempted to argue with one of the hardcore handheld Coleco LED games > fan that was one of the first group of LoonyBinners, but I don’t recall who it was. I > am a Mattel LED handheld games fanboy myself and preferred them over the Coleco > handheld games. It would have been handheld LED games wars aside from the console > wars that were going on back then, but those were also classics as well. I enjoyed > some of those threads because the original part of the thread ventures off to some > other topic after about 50 threads were posted. > > I wish I could remember who it was, but so much for that. > > > I agree with your HoF comment. Beltran, Shef and Vizquel had the numbers to be > inducted into the HoF imo. > > Most of those names that Baseball Writers overlook will have to be voted by veterans > committee later. > Voting results link to see which names get added. > > 2024 Official Hall of Fame Ballot. > https://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/hof_2024.shtml > > > The one thing that I follow is keeping tabs of career stats. It is a feature that > can be accessed by fans of whatever is their favorite baseball team. It doesn’t have > to be Pirates, but can be any MLB team. > > > https://www.mlb.com/pirates > > > I go to stats section page and then adjust filter settings to sort through > statistics. > > For instance, I set search to this such as all time names and then go through > various hitting categories. > > https://www.mlb.com/pirates/stats/mlb/all-time-totals > > > Thankfully all of the numbers are brought up instead of just the top 500 or top 1000 > which means a user can look to see names of players that had only 1 home run for a > career. The one warning to mention is it can take a user one or two hours to have to > scroll down the list just to reach the names on any such statistics searches where > the players has a hundred or less whatever is being searched.
..................... Matt Carpenter................ nothing more that I can say about the Cardinals ownership and front office.