[MikeyPatriot]

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The reality is, neither your opinion nor mine, of who should be in the HOF, carries any significance to anyone whatsoever. Unless you're a voting member of the BBWAA, and I'm about 10000% sure you're not, your opinion about my vote is as insignificant as what I ate for lunch today.

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WTF are you trying to say? Opinions in 99% of 2p2 threads don't mean a damn thing in the grand scheme of things. So what? You posted your opinion that you would vote Rice into the HOF, but would not vote Tim Raines or Burt Blyleven. Other people have asked you why, and when you have presented subpar arguments, provided very clear data showing that Raines was a better player throughout his career.

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Okay, and I stand by my statement that Gossage and Rice are the only people on this year's ballot that I think merit inclusion in the HOF.

I suggested (and still do) that Raines falls just short, imo, so he doesn't get my vote. He probably stands a reasonable chance of getting in, but I'm pretty much 100% positive he's not getting in on the first ballot.

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You keep coming back to this, but it is completely irrelevant to this thread. We aren't talking about who the BBWAA will vote in. We're talking about who we would vote in personally. So I don't understand why you keep coming back to this point.

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... and your innate ability to extend my words to mean things I did not say or mean is only exceeded by your incessant desire to try to somehow "get one over" on me.

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Where have I done this? Where I have twisted your words into something else? How have I been trying to "get one over" on you? All I've done is point out how flawed your method of argument has been.

I really wish you would state why you continually avoided and overlooked the very convincing evidence in the Raines/Rice EQA graph. This is very clear proof that not only was Raines a better player during their peak years, but that he was better through the life of both of their careers.