HOVVG Is Back In Session ~ 2011

WELCOME BACK!

ESTEEMED DIRECTORS (that's you)

of the HALL OF VERY VERY GOOD,

This Season of HOVVG is now officially in Session.

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FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS:

Hall of Very Very Good

Constitution States:

* Any Member of the Hall of Very Very Good, who subsequently gets elected to

BASEBALL's HALL of FAME

Must Be Evicted From The HOVVG.

Re-familiarize yourself with the HOVVG Constitution:

CLICK HERE

Bert Blyleven; 

originally voted into our HOVVG with a 92% approval rating.

He was elected to our HOVVG in our inaugural WEEK ONE Vote;

Submitted by LEE @ http://blee132325.mlblogs.com/

"My Friends Are Mostly Cardinal Fans"

Congratulations!

To the newest Member of Baseball's

HALL OF FAME.

BERT BLYLEVEN;

You here-by EVICTED from our HOVVG. 

You're just too good for us. 

Now Beat It!


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SECOND ORDER OF BUSINESS:

Last season Cliff @ http://raysrenegade.mlblogs.com/
petitioned to have the HOVVG Constitutional Ban against Shoeless Joe Jackson and Pete Rose put to a vote for the purposes of lifting the ban against them.  The motion won approval through a vote of the fans.  The time to reward them with our approval or deny them entry into our Halls is now.  We'll pick up where we left off and begin 2011 with....


HOVVG ~ WEEK 8 ~ BALLOT



From the desk of:  CLIFF
@
http://raysrenegade.mlblogs.com/
"RAYS RENEGADE"


**His candidates for election into the HOVVG are;
The two gentlemen;
SHOELESS JOE JACKSON and PETE ROSE

We know all about these players, from their greatness to their ultimate downfalls.
Do they belong in our
HALL OF VERY VERY GOOD?

VOTE!

**NOTE ~ HOVVG Constitution states:  One candidate per person per week.
This vote concludes the Jackson/Rose Amendment of HOVVG Constitution.

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From the desk of: RANDY

@

http://heirloom.mlblogs.com/

"HEIRLOOM"

His candidate for election into the HOVVG is:

KENT TEKULVE

He Makes His Case:

Hey Mike,
Have I got a Week 8 submission for you: Kent Tekulve. Here it goes...

Who says sidearm pitchers are weak, worthless and absolutely nuts? Who says a baseball player has to look like Jim Palmer? Tek was the opposite of everything – yet he was one of the most effective relievers of his time. Started with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1974, Tekulve remained the mainstay closer through the late 1970s into the 1979 World Series. After 12 seasons in Pittsburgh, Tek crossed the Turnpike to Philly, ending his career in Cincinnati. The numbers are not bad: 184 career saves, 2.85 ERA and a 94-90 overall record. So? It’s not the numbers that make Tekulve stand out – it was the way his sidearm made the best hitters think twice about connecting off of it. It was that nasty! It still is.


Randy Stern
Robbinsdale, MN
http://www.randystern.net/

That's his man; That's his case.

VOTE!

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This concludes last season's unfinished business.

Send in your E-Mails to:
TripleToRight@Yahoo.com

..with the candidates you want considered for election into OUR
Hall of Very Very Good.  Send a pic and state your case.  Then we'll take it to a vote.

A Ballot is Active for seven days.  But the ballot box is never closed until I close it.
We usually go from Sunday to Sunday.

You can check out the last Seven Weeks of voting
HERE



**  For those of you visiting me on Blogspot, you are welcome to participate here.  But I've been conducting this HOVVG on my MLBlogs.com page.  You can check that out here:
http://thebrooklyntrolleyblogger.mlblogs.com/
Everything I publish there is here on this blog site also.




Happy 2011 Season!




Mike.BTB

BTB's ~ The HALL of VERY VERY GOOD


NOTE TO BASEBALL FANS AND READERS of MY BLOG:  With the election of Bert Blylevin into Baseball's Hall of Fame, it's high time I share with you, something I've been doing on my MLBlogs.com blog page. ...over the last year. 

It's something I call The Hall of Very Very Good.

The following post highlights my original CONSTITUTION for the HOVVG.  Familiarize yourself with the rules me and my fellow bloggers on MLBlogs voted to abide by.  We have voted 20 Members into the Hall Of Very Very Good thus far.  If you good folks find this a good idea and want to participate, I'll accommodate this blog with a page and the links necessary to keep track of everything.  For now, you can refer to all the links from my other blog (which Baseball-wise is the same content as here).
Check out the links and see how we ran it.  We had some candidates put through a meat grinder.  Some of the comments and the block-voting was hilarious.  Some candidates will flat out surprise you.

**On this page you can view the complete list of every player voted on with vote totals and percentages: who made it and who didn't; every-one's comments and how they voted.  We conducted seven weeks of voting so far.  You can catch all the week by week here:
http://thebrooklyntrolleyblogger.mlblogs.com/archives/2010/07/elected-members-of-the-hovvg.html

**On this page is our HOVVG Gallery.  We ave a picture of every player voted in.  We even gave the HOVVG a real (make-believe) home.  You might be surprised where it is.  LOL.
http://thebrooklyntrolleyblogger.mlblogs.com/archives/2010/08/this-is-your-hovvg.html


Not only it is time to put some more players up for a vote now that Winter has officially taken over our lives.  But Bert Blylevin was voted into our HOVVG earlier this year, and now it's time to serve him with an Eviction Notice.  Now that he's in the Hall of Fame, it's time for him to beat-it.  He's too Good for our HOVVG now.  It's written in The Constitution.

I wanted to familiarize you first before we start this thing up again.  The more participation, the more fun this becomes.  You are all welcome to submit a name.  As it was I who started this, I try to restrain myself from hogging up all the obvious players.  I leave that for you folks.  So, go ahead,  read on,  check out the links to see how we ran it...., and then we'll start up again with a whole lot more people involved this time.

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BTB's

HALL of VERY VERY GOOD

The HALL of VERY VERY GOOD is a BTB tribute to the non-Hall of Famers; our personal heroes; those players who are close but not quite; those players who were great in our view but never got a chance to give a speech in Cooperstown; those players we feel were pretty damn good and are firmly entrenched in our mental libraries....

For them, and for us, Let's open the doors to the new

HALL OF VERY VERY GOOD.

CONSTITUTION of the HALL of VERY VERY GOOD

* Player must have played baseball between 1846 to the present.
* Player must be retired or dead!
* Player can not be in Hall of Fame.
* If a member of the HOVVG is eventually voted into Baseball's Hall of Fame, that HOVVG Member must be EVICTED.

* BTB does not care how nice a guy or how much of a tool a given player is.  All I ask is there be a case for them being good OR their rap-sheet be that impressive and the majority agrees.  It's all about the VOTE.  Just remember this is an exercise in fun.

* Steroids, PED cheats, coke heads, and creeps in general are welcome but their Bio will be clearly indicative of such transgressions.  In some cases it may even enhance their election depending on our own set of morals and standards. Some people are just Social Diseases, but with everything, we'll put them up for a vote and see (the ridicule)...what happens.


* Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson are still banned, just because! 

###When I originally drafted the HoVVG Constitution, I purposely left Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe in Purgatory; making them ineligible for a Vote.

***The BAN against Pete Rose and Shoeless JOE has been AMENDED ~ SEE BELOW.
After WEEK 5 a motion to allow these two players to be made eligible for a vote was PASSED.
A Vote is still Pending.



* A name will not suffice.  You will make a case for your Player in your own words and you, the "BloggerHood" will vote on said player.
A MAJORITY vote decides. Votes resulting in a tie do not gain election:
MAJORITY RULES ~ TIES LOSE
***After WEEK 5 a motion to AMEND this was DENIED by the FANS.
***After Week 7 a candidate is now required to have a minimum of 4 YES VOTES.



Our players can be famous or infamous; good guys or bad guys.  But what ever they are most famous for, it better be good (or delightfully bad).   They just can't suck ~ (reference "the MENDOZA LINE").  I think we all know what we want out of a Hall of Very Very Good.   I'll leave the rest to you folks. The more participation, the more "funner".

If you have a name you want voted on for enshrinement, e-mail me at

tripletoright@yahoo.com

Just say something like HoVVG....

I'll run the post with your players entry and link your blog.  Don't forget a quick Bio on your player the way you want him represented and send a picture.  Otherwise I will submit players that will be voted on for ONE WEEK.  But the voting booth is never really closed until it's closed.  Right Yogi?  See how it's done by checking out the link provided above to MY other site.




AMENDMENTS to this codex are open for discussion and very welcome.


FIRST AMENDMENT
~ one player, per blogger, per week
**Imposed Week 2; Voted and upheld Week 5

SECOND AMENDMENT
~ Shoeless Joe and Pete Rose ban is lifted.
**They will be exposed to a vote. Motion passed Week 5

THIRD AMENDMENT
~ A candidate needs a minimum of FOUR YES VOTES to gain  election into HoVVG.
***Voted Week 7 ~ Majority Rules/Ties Lose still applies.


After WEEK 5, HOVVG underwent a review process.  Motions to Amend the HOVVG Constitution were put to vote.  Results of the VOTE for proposed AMENDMENTS to HOVVG CONSTITUTION are as follows.

ITEM ONE:
The motion to expand number of candidates per week is denied.
The Fans have spoken with a(n) unanimous vote.
9 VOTES versus 0 Votes
HOVVG CONSTITUTION remains as such;
One Player, Per Week, Per Blogger.

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ITEM TWO:
The motion to increase the percentage of Popular Votes
needed for selection into HOVVG is denied...barely.
The Fans have spoken with a mixed vote.
*4 VOTES to maintain the current system of
Majority Rules/Ties Lose
*3 VOTES to increase the percentage up to 70%
* 2 VOTES to increase the percentage up to 60%
HOVVG CONSTITUTION remains as such;
In matters of voting and player selections ~ Majority Vote Rules/Ties Lose.

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ITEM THREE:
The motion to agree and make eligible, Shoeless Joe Jackson and Pete Rose,
for the purposes of inclusion into the VOTE PROCESS is passed.
This HOVVG AMENDMENT is passed and the issue closed.
Both players will be exposed to a VOTE of the FANS.  Still Pending.

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IN WEEK 7
A MOTION TO AMEND HoVVG CONSTITUTION was submitted to a vote:

A proposal to require candidates gain a minimum number of votes for election was ~ PASSED

4 VOTE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT ~ 5 VOTES YES
KEEP SYSTEM THE SAME ~ 3 VOTES YES
5 VOTE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT ~ 1 VOTE YES.
The motion is passed. Let the record show a candidate now needs
a minimum 4 YES VOTES in addition to "Majority Rules/Ties Lose"
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That's it.  Leave a comment and tell me what you think. And we'll take it from there.



Mike.BTB

Week One Results; the HALL of VERY VERY GOOD

MEMBERS

of the

HALL OF VERY VERY GOOD

As voted by The Fans

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MARK FIDRYCH  ~  BERT BLYLEVEN  ~  LUIS TIANT

AL OLIVER  ~  DALE MURPHY  ~  WILLIE McGEE

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WEEK ONE VOTE RESULTS :

**DALE MURPHY received a 100% YES Vote on 11 total votes cast.

*LUIS TIANT received a 100% YES Vote on 10 total votes cast.

BERT BLYLEVEN received a 91% YES Vote on 11 total votes cast.

MARK FIDRYCH received a 91% YES Vote on 11 total votes cast.

AL OLIVER received a 90% YES Vote on 10 total votes cast with ONE no comment.

WILLIE McGEE received a 73% YES Vote on 11 total votes cast.

MIKE LIEBERTHAL finished the voting at 50%  ~  5 YES   5 NO

Ties do not get you elected.

Congratulations everyone for launching the

HOVVG

KEEP SENDING IN THOSE E-MAILS to

TRIPLETORIGHT@YAHOO.com

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http://thebrooklyntrolleyblogger.blogspot.com/
http://thebrooklyntrolleyblogger.mlblogs.com/


FOR ALL UPDATED INFORMATION GO TO MY
http://thebrooklyntrolleyblogger.mlblogs.com/
I'm running it there.

I'm using these blogger-posts for copy and paste purposes.

mike