Mo Votes Than Tom

It is natural for Mets fans (though yes, fans in general as well) to make the news of baseball...Metscentric. We're diehards. It's our passion, and they are the team within the sport we follow the closest, and for most of us, by a wide margin.

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So, it is natural for the news about Mariano Rivera being the only player in history to receive 100% of the Hall of Fame ballot immediately to make me think negatively about it from a Metsian point of view. Yes, I will celebrate him the same way he was celebrated prior to being walked off on back in 2013 on the Field they call Citi. He was clearly a force in the back end of the bullpen that helped anchor the last great dynasty of the 20th century who got greedy at the expense of Kurt Abbott's Mets in the first year of the new millennium too. Mariano Rivera is a hall of famer and should be recognized for his contributions to the constant evolution of what it means to be a reliever. Sure-fire first ballot hall of famer.

And yes! Ken Griffey, Jr. had already surpassed Tom Seaver with a total percentage of 99.32 contrasted with the pitcher's 98.84 in their respective first years on the ballot. He's Ken Griffey, Jr. though. How can you be mad? or fake mad/sports mad, I mean? It's asinine that either of these players were not thought of as surefire first ballot hall of famers by some people out there, though who really knows anyway what people's actual intentions are in not voting for them the first time they get a chance to do so.

Of course! However...Tom Seaver, one of the greatest starting pitchers of all time, could not get 100% of the vote, even if it held as the highest percentage ever voted for for a long time. It was a Yankee! and a reliever at that! who is the first person ever to get 100% of the votes. Not a Met. And the one who represents their greatest player for a team very well known for its pitching. The contrast in how Mets the moment is was just so glaring to me it was the first thing I thought about when it was announced he got 100% of the vote.

Cheers to him and Yankee fans.

But there's a massive eyeroll occurring over here.
Oh, Mets.

And Carlos Beltran will probably request he does NOT have his best stretch of years represented on his cap.

I guess I'm just in a smirky cynical Mets mood instead of "optimistic Mets mood."

It's either exclusively the Mets or the fact I'm writing this at a Safelite Auto Glass near Pittsburgh waiting for my front windshield to get fixed. It's probably mostly the Mets.

There's really only one thing of note I should be always angry about when it comes to the Hall of Fame...

VOTE. GIL. IN. NOW.

LET'S. GO. METS.