One of the reasons that people play sports is to get their "due" in life. Sports is supposed to be the arena of justice in society without bias based on merit. In recent times sports is only about money from the franchises to the spoiled players. Millionaires fighting with Billionaires. The game has collapsed into an analytical anarchy of stupidity and nonsense. The morons who now grace the court, fields and even the ice are celebrities and fame whores. Often times competing with media sluts like the Kardashians, movie stars and other malevolent impostors. Even the clowns who announce the games are now over paid pompous dimwits who think the game wouldn't go on without them. The "booth" is now a veritable cornucopia of DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity) deciples spouting out mindless statistics often times with "little girls" giggling.
The games are a joke and have destroyed whatever "justice and sportsmanship" they are supposed to represent. Obnoxious gangsta rap, twerking sluts, and total obnoxious players and fans. But what makes the game even worse is the so called selections for the Hall of Fame in these leagues (however, I believe the NHL probably does the best job). The morons try to compare statistics of today with players, coaches and managers of yesteryear. They forget to tell you how different the game was back then including some of the rules. This is now called "sports knowledge." Trust me if Fran Tarkenton, or Dan Marino were playing today they would torch the record books too. Do you think today's players can hit home runs? Try Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Robinson and others in these smaller parks. Also, do you think you could play that shift on Mantle and Mays? They would hit 600 for a batting average. Mantle only averaged 115 strikeouts per year and walked an average of 117 times. Check out those number against today's home run hitters! Also, don't buy the bullshit that today's pitcher's are better and throw harder and therefore are better. When Mantle, Mays, Aaron, Robinson, and the previous generation of hitters played the mound was higher! If you don't know what this means you know nothing about baseball but that's okay because you have met qualifications for a broadcast career or sports writer.
Today's players think the game arrived when they got on the scene. They immediately start branding themselves and start preparing for their Hall of Fame induction. The so called "sports writers and media influencers" are complicit in the manufacturing of these myths. Those players, coaches and managers of yesteryear didn't have a publicity department to push for pending Hall Fame inclusion starting when they signed their first contract like today's "magic people." The most egregious of these in baseball is the late Danny Murtaugh.
Here's what Murtaugh's record looks like for managing: (from the Baseball Almanac https://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=murtada01)
Danny Murtaugh finished his managerial career with a .540 winning percentage which is higher than Hall of Fame manager Ned Hanlon (.530), Bucky Harris (.493), Tommy Lasorda (.526), Connie Mack (.486), Bill McKechnie (.526), Wilbert Robinson (.500), Casey Stengel (.508), and Dick Williams (.520)? Did you know Danny Murtaugh finished his managerial career with two world series titles in two different decades (1960 and 1971) and his two championships are more than Hall of Fame manager Leo Durocher (1), Ned Hanlon (1), Al Lopez (0), Wilbert Robinson (0), Frank Selee (0) and Earl Weaver (1)? Did you know Danny Murtaugh is one of 680+ baseball managers in Major League history and one of the few in the 1,000 Wins Club?
Murtaugh was the first manager in Major League history to field a starting lineup consisting of nine black (combination of African American and dark-skinned Latins) players. Now comes the good stuff. Murtaugh won two world series with a small market team. He beat the 1960 Yankees. That's right the Yankees with some of the greatest players in history on the shot heard around the world on Bill Mazeroski's home run. In 1971 Murtaugh's Pirates beat the Baltimore Orioles with arguably the best pitching staff in one year in the history of baseball. They had four 20 game winners: McNally, Cuellar, Dobson and Palmer. The Orioles were big favorites.
Murtaugh not being in the Hall of Fame is a disgrace. But the morons who run the MLB are concerned with only one thing and that doesn't include the "sports justice" that makes a kid dream of playing the game. If you don't have your own promotion and public relations agency you need not apply. Any sports writer who doesn't think Murtaugh belongs in the Hall of Fame can kiss my ass. Am I homer because I'm from the area? Fuck no, I'm a Yankee fan. He broke my heart as kid but what is due.....is due!
