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2026 Mock MLB Hall of Fame Ballot

It’s time again that I fill out a mock Hall of Fame ballot. Well, probably past the time I would like to if I were to put the tiniest influence out onto the world on the 2026 Hall of Fame inductees. This year we see a ballot where no one dropped off the ballot after a 10th year, the two biggest first timers on the ballot were voted in, and this year does not come up to vote on a first ballot. Hopefully this will be a year to work through some of the ballot hangups and logjam

2025 Era's Committee Mock Ballot

This should be a year where the Eras Committee vote on players whose contributions came 1980 and after should be highly anticipated. This very much is a year that the dam should break on some players that are long overdue for induction into the Hall of Fame. These are players off of the BWAA Writer’s ballot that brings so much speculation every year. Twelve former players, managers or executives vote on eight players, each voter can vote on up to three players and if a player

What the F is Going on!?! Part Seven: Worst Case Scenarios

I picked out my relevant movies in the middle of the summer, and the context of their inclusion didn’t seem especially clear at the time, just that they gave a little insight to the ideology of the Trump Administration. As time has gone on, the parallels are much less hypothetical and much more directly relating to current events by the day. This is a bigger batch of movies from the watch list, but they very much show parallel ideology, worst case scenario playing out of even

What the F is going on!?! Part Six: Biblical Proportions

Recently, President Trump has mused to reporters about his prospects of getting into heaven, mentioning that he doesn’t think he is currently on his way there but may have a chance. It’s a very strange way for a president to be talking, however he is the oldest inaugurated president in US history at 78 in January, having survived a very real Covid scare in his first administration that followed the death of his brother. He is pondering his own mortality, and although we have