I am literally sick to my stomach after seeing that. Not figuratively. LITERALLY. That is an absolute ABOMINATION.
Whoever is responsible for this travesty at the Oregon DMV should be fired immediately, then stripped and whipped naked down SW Broadway (and NE Broadway for good measure)......
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Dallas Cowboys since Superbowl 5 Blazers since Inception (conception?) I used to be a huge baseball fan but they banned Pete Rose from the HoF for basically being a douchebag and gambling. I guess maybe if he went back he probably should have snorted coke and went and beat his wife everyday and murdered people and got on the steroid bandwagon. I like playing soccer but I have no team so GO TIMBERS!. When I was a kid I liked Portland Wrestling. My oldest half brother dated Bo Ramos daughter for a while. Portland Buckaroo's
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You do realize that the HOF is separate from MLB, right? Rose was justifiably banned from MLB for gambling (which he chose to do despite the prohibition of and consequence for having been stated throughout his career), but they have no control over what the HOF chooses to do.
Bullshit. MLB placed Rose on the ineligible list thereby preventing him from being on a HOF ballot. Pete is an asshole and probably a gambling addict but his actions pale in comparison to others who have been elected to the HOF. I think it's one of the biggest travesties in sports given MLB's hypocrisy since they are now invested in gambling. It's a TRAVESHAMOCKERY!
The HOF specifies and manages the criteria for HOF eligibility. It is the HOF who determined that those banned from MLB would be ineligible for enshrinement.
The investigation into gambling by Pete Rose was done by MLB. MLB accepted Rose's agreement that he would be ineligible from baseball.
Yes. From baseball. Then the HOF gets to make the call on his eligibility for the HOF. If they wanted to put him on the ballot, they could have. Of course, even if they had, the BBWAA probably wouldn't have voted for him. All I'm saying is that it's fallacious to blame MLB solely.
MLB is absolutely the primary entity to blame. Sure, there are other entities involved but they will agree with whatever stance MLB espouses.
interesting funny that 1970 was mentioned as that was the year I graduated high school and decided to go to the UofO. I'll admit it: I grew up (mostly) in Sweet Home. At that time and that place it was kind of expected that OSU was the destination for guys going to college. I had several buddies going there and I was interested in engineering so it just seemed like a fit. I'll further admit that at that time the draft and Vietnam were a dark cloud on the horizon so a college deferment seemed desirable compared to getting shot at in a rice paddy. so, I seemed destined to be a damn beaver. But one thing I definitely noticed was that about half dozen of the good-looking brainy girls from my class were going to the UofO. I didn't think a lot about it but with the teen-age testosterone running high, I definitely noticed it. Then, one day I was looking thru the catalog on OSU in the stats pages and I saw a number that brought me up short: the coed population of OSU was 65% male. I was good enough at math that I calculated that meant there were 35% females (assuming sheep weren't counted). wut? So then, I looked thru the UofO catalog and saw that the UofO population was 58% female. Ok then....58% vs 35%. That's when I said "fuck engineering, I like literature"....I had my priorities straight you see So, I became a Duck. Now, the OP mentioned "other sports". I got to know Steve Prefontaine and Mac Wilkins pretty well so I became a track & field fan, and at the time, track & field was huge at the UofO, so that was an easy transition. Seeing games at Mac Court: Stan Love, Larry Holiday, Ron Lee, Greg Ballard...beating UCLA and Bill Walton...that was a gas. speaking of Mac Court, in 1976 (was still living in Eugene), I went to a preseason game for the Blazers they held at Mac Court. The team had added Maurice Lucas and Dave Twardzick in the ABA draft and Johnny Davis in the college draft. They had the other guys like Hollins and Gross of course. When Walton needed a rest, they brought in a young C named Moses Malone but Portland stupidly traded him shortly after that. I forget who Portland played but they ran that other team out of the gym using the style of play they won a championship with 8 months later my freshman year, the cost was $500 a term; $1500 for a year....that was for tuition AND a year of room and 3 squares a day in the dorms. Recreational costs were low too. If you had no taste and were just interested in a buzz, you could get Raineer Ale for 45 cents a quart. It was putrid but it did the trick. that was all a bargain, but since I was too much of a lazy fuck-off to get scholarships and my family was relatively poor, I ran out of money after my freshman year...which put me back in the Vietnam cross-hairs. And it was my time in the lottery. That was the draft lottery era and that's one lottery you didn't want to finish high in. Went by birthday and if you were in the 1-70 range, chances were good in a few months you'd be dodging lead. My number was 362. So I hung around Eugene working crummy jobs and occasionally taking classes when the cost didn't cut too deeply into the party fund...Go Ducks!
