and how are dreadlocks a bad thing when he played in the Afro-era?

He shouldn’t mention any player. But seriously. JETER? Are you kidding me? Jeter, to me, is the face of good, hard played, clean baseball. He’s always been that to me. And Jim Rice is an absolute IDIOT to mention his name.

I understand him saying that A-Rod and Manny aren’t good role models, but seriously, HE is not being a good role model by trash talking current players. Me, I don’t want kids following the paths A-Rod and Manny took either. Especially Manny. Manny represents everything that is WRONG for baseball. He never hustles. Seems like he never tries. Cheats the game and pretty much shows more remorse about it. I wouldn’t want a kid to follow A-Rods path either but seriously, at least A-Rod owned up to his mistake and showed remorse. And A-Rod at least tries on the baseball field. But Rice is wrong to mention anyone in a negative way. And I agree with you. It’s classless.

has every right to mention guys like A-Rod and Manny for the fact they were in the report of testing + for PED’s. That’s fine with me.

Its when he accused Jeter and also guys like Thome and Ichiro that gets me fumed.

All 3 of these guys are more deserving HOFers than Rice. Thome and Ichiro aren’t definite first balloters, but depending on how their career #’s finish up, they might be.

What do you want us to do? How can any self respecting baseball fan agree with what Rice has to say? He has no proof on Jeter. The only proof is the complete opposite of what he says.

Jeter played most of last season with more than likely what was a broken hand…but you never heard anything on it.

If anything, Jeter is the type of player than would be a standout in any era. Rice is just JEALOUS cuz Jeter has 4 WS championships (compared to Rice’s ZERO), is a first ballot HOFer (who may eventually break Pete Rose’ hit record—which may happen this year the way he’s going….) and just so happen to get a contract in an era where $190 million was market value.

Rice has no right to bash a future fellow HOFer, and every right to be ripped to shreads. If Red Sox fans had any decency, they’d wonder WTF is wrong with Rice to mention Jeter.

When Jeter is a HOFer and he turns around and says Pedroia is piece of crap, what would you say(Jeter would never do that BTW).

Rice is an idiot and so are you for agreeing with him.

to do with the topic (Rice’s comments) at hand?

The 2007 Red Sox broke the record for highest payroll on a World Series winner set by the 2004 Red Sox.
Enjoy that superiority.

your golden boy Theo can throw out as much money as he chooses.

that was a pretty smart decision on his part to hold onto that extra $3 million in the Teixiera sweepstakes. there’s no doubt in my mind that if you take Tex away from the Yankees and put him with the Sox this year, Boston is the one with the 7 1/2 game lead right now.

if you ask me, low-balling Tex and letting him walk to the Yankees was 100X worse than even the Carl Pavano signing. stupid, stupid move.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AjeWWLmcVniOZ6JXmQahHQ0i0bYF?slug=ge-rice082109&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

With the ridiculous focus on a few key numbers like 500 homers, 3000 hits, 300 wins… it seems to me the HoF has become more like the Hall of More Of The Same. How many players have hung on long past their prime in order to reach one of those milestone numbers that “guarantee” their ticket to Cooperstown? Or consider this: if Jeter retires today, short of 3000 hits, is he any less worthy of the HoF? Reaching 3000 hits, is he suddenly more worthy? The selection process is largely a crock. It’s supposed to measure a player’s dominance, his impact on the game during the era in which he played… which IMHO has only a passing correlation at best with 3000 hits, 500 home runs, 300 wins, or any other “magic” number.

And NOW he’s trying to backtrack the entire statement. I won’t even waste my time reading it.

There are folks who will say Rice deserves the be in the HoF despite questionable career numbers, because one must look at the intangibles, his impact on the game and such.

Many of those same people say Don Mattingly should NOT be in the HoF because he didn’t put up sufficiently worthy career numbers, despite Mattingly’s impact on the game and such.

You can’t have it both ways, folks!

Now Jim Rice is in… so when are you inducting Mattingly? Speaking personally, I don’t care which side of the fence in the above argument one falls on BUT whichever side that is, you gotta apply it equally across the board.

So… WHEN DOES MATTINGLY GO IN?