{"id":1328,"date":"2010-01-06T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2013-12-08T20:01:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T20:01:54","slug":"hall-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"Hall Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/images\/alomar12.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"251\" \/>As much as I hated his two years with the Mets (and vice versa I&#8217;m sure) I take no pleasure in knowing that baseball writers denied\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/player\/alomar-robbie\">Smilin&#8217; Robbie Alomar<\/a>\u00a0election to the Hall of Fame. Alomar&#8217;s shortfall was one of a half-dozen disappointments the voters delivered today and another blow to the dignity of the Hall of Fame &#8212; an institution that&#8217;s become harder and harder to take seriously every year.<\/p>\n<p>Andre Dawson &#8212; a borderline guy but a feared hitter with counting-stat bonafides &#8212; got in while Tim Raines, Bert Blyleven, Alan Trammell, Barry Larkin and Edgar Martinez ought to have but didn&#8217;t. As for Alomar, he was a no-brainer even before he arrived with the Mets and his skills summarily went down the toilet. It&#8217;s easy to forget his attitiude never won raves even when he was playing well and that his skills never returned even after the Mets cut him loose.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>I got citation from the Police the other day &#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metspolice.com\/2010\/01\/solving-tug-mcgraw-jersey-mystery.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Mets Police<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>A MLB.com story mentioned that Jason Bay chose\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mbtn.net\/number\/44\">44<\/a>\u00a0as a tribute to a boyhood idol, Eric Davis. Now there&#8217;s a guy whose route to the Hall of Fame took a sudden wrong turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I hated his two years with the Mets (and vice versa I&#8217;m sure) I take no pleasure in knowing that baseball writers denied\u00a0Smilin&#8217; Robbie Alomar\u00a0election to the Hall of Fame. Alomar&#8217;s shortfall was one of a half-dozen disappointments the voters delivered today and another blow to the dignity of the Hall of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1328\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hall Monitor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[463],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-robbie-alomar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}