The Hockey Hall of Fame is Bullshit...

Yesterday the Hockey Hall of Fame announced their latest class...And at first glance, it looks like a legit class...But like all sports Hall of Fames, it's tainted with politics and bullshit...

Issue #1...It took too long to put Phil Housley in...Housley has been eligible since 2006, and just made it...He is second all-time in scoring among U.S. born players...He is fourth in scoring among Defensemen with 1,232 points...(338 G...894A)...He did this over 23 seasons...The only reason any Hall of Fame voters have given to justify why it has taken so long, is that Housley was often gruff, and not the best at talking to reporters....Boy, we hear this all the time with the different Hall of Fame voters...'He wasn't our buddy...he didn't buy us drinks and get us laid...He didn't like talking to us after a loss.'  Fuck you whining cocksuckers!  Housley was a Hall of Fame Player and backed it up with the numbers...What you twats did was Bullshit!

This year's class was dominated with defensemen...Also getting in are Nicklas Lidstrom, 6th among defensemen in scoring, and was a rock for the Detroit Red Wings winning the Norris Trophy 7 times, one less then Bobby Orr, and played of 4 Stanley Cup winning teams...

Then there is Sergei Fedorov a Center during that Red Wings dynasty...He finished his career with 1,179 points...He also racked up a bunch of awards in his career...These two first ballot guys were no-brainers...

That brings us to Issue #2...Chris Pronger....Compared to his blue-line counterparts who got in, Pronger is 26th all-time among defensemen scoring...698 points in 1167 games...I have always felt Pronger was overrated, and I feel even more validated by the numbers...Yes, he was D-man, and he played physical and good defensive hockey...Well so did the guy sitting at 30th on the all-time defensemen scoring sheet...James Patrick was a rock solid D-man who played 1280 games and racked up 639 points...So why exactly is Pronger going in and Patrick isn't?

But even worse the this...As I referenced in my Monday Moaning blog, Pronger was traded this past weekend...He still has an active contract...So please tell me how the fuck is a guy with an active contract, that got traded 3 days ago, eligible to get into the Hall of Fame?

BULLSHIT!

I don't care about the "Builders' Category, or the Females they have started putting in, so I won't get into those names...I will link some players who aren't in, and should be...

Theoren Fleury

Dave Andeychuk

Steve Larmer

Jeremy Roenick

Mike Vernon

And yeah, I'm putting the Beezer in there too...

John Vanbiesbrouck

What Athletes Inspired You?

This is something I posted quite a while back at Sporting News....

http://www.sportingnews.com/blog/the%20BEEZE/165360

I use to post a sports related question on Fridays...I'd give a little backround about the topic...Give my answer...And wait for the responses...This was originally posted in August...I've chopped out the weekend references...

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The first person to get me interested in sports was my Father. I'm sure that's true for many of you. This question is about the athletes that inspired us. The guys or gals, that made you say to yourself "I want to do that", or "that's how I'm gonna play." So simply, what athlete(s) influenced you growing up?

Here's mine......

I think Hockey is an easy one to figure out....JOHN VANBIESBROUCK The first NHL game I watched the Beezer won, and I was hooked....The fact that he wasn't a big guy helped too....I am also vertically challenged....

With Football the whole mystique of Notre Dame got me at a young age, but not one player....

With the pros, there was one guy who stood out to me when I was a kid....

Tony Dorsett I just loved the way he ran. Again not a huge guy. I wore #33 all through grade school football. (I didn't run as well)

Baseball, it was Ryne Sandberg....I loved watching Sandberg field....I would make my Dad hit me grounders all the time...When he couldn't, I was fielding them just like Ryno off the garage door....

I showed you mine...Now show me yours....

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Later, The Beeze.