Marty Noble is Not

Another clown who should be kicked out of the BBWAA is NY Mets homer and MLB.com writer, Marty Noble.

Using his ballot to punish people for on and off the field transgressions is reprehensible.  Here’s what he said about his ballot from MLB.com:

Marty Noble: Barry Larkin and Dave Parker

Alomar will probably be elected, and based on performance through most of his 17 seasons, he ought to be. But he will go without my vote this year. I don’t like to use the ballot in this manner, but the best second baseman since Joe Morgan — and probably the best ever — doesn’t deserve my vote for at least one year because of two spitting instances. We’re all aware of the one involving John Hirschbeck. I don’t care that Hirschbeck forgave Alomar for spitting at him; I haven’t. It was unacceptable behavior. And during his 222-game tour with the Mets, Alomar repeatedly spit in the face of the game by playing with conspicuous apathy. His father and brother didn’t deserve that, nor did the game. Larkin was a gentleman, an MVP and a genuine offensive force who played the most important defensive position at a high level. He was an easy choice. Parker remains the the best player I ever have covered. He beat opponents every way possible, running over them, if necessary. And he was better at keeping a clubhouse loose than any player I’ve experienced. I hadn’t voted for him until now because of his involvement in the 1985 cocaine mess in Pittsburgh. But I had supported the Hall candidacy of Keith Hernandez, the second-best player I ever covered, despite his involvement with cocaine. That inconsistency had to be rectified. I can forgive their flaws more readily than I can forgive Alomar’s. Wait till next year.

Noble is a long time NY Mets sycophant writer who happens to be now employed by MLB.com.  He can’t forgive Alomar his two unforgettable seasons in NY at the end of his career?  He has punished Dave Parker all these years for past transgressions and admits it?  What is his major malfunction?  About Alomar at the very least, he should speak to his colleague, Peter Gammons, who actually knows something about the baseball world outside the NY Mets-opolitan area.

Here’s what Peter Gammons, a HOF’er himself, had to say about Alomar, on MLB.com:

Alomar
No-brainer — one of the six to eight best second basemen who ever played. Twelve All-Star teams, 10 Gold Gloves, one of the best instinctive defenders and baserunners of his generation. Could hit 1-2-3 in the order, and in the 14 years from 1988-2001 was a dominant player: second in hits and runs, third in doubles, fourth in triples and games started, fifth in steals. He was a premier defender who for his career is in the top 80 in runs, hits, doubles, total bases, times on base and steals.

Gammons, as is most often the case is right.  Alomar in the HOF is a no-brainer.  Noble is wrong and his nobility in this is the ultimate in tilting at windmills.

Noble probably would have left Ty Cobb (racist and spike sharpened dirty player), Babe Ruth (beer guzzler, fathered child out of wedlock) and Mickey Mantle (alcoholic speed freak and carouser) off his high on the horse ballot.  And he definitely would not have voted for Willie Mays because of his lackluster last season with the Mets.

It’s time to make sure that people like Noble and Mariotti, prime examples of the typical BBWAA blowhards, are not allowed to use the vote as their own personal vendettas against the players who deserve to be in the Hall.  Starting with Mariotti and Noble, the BBWAA ought to say, “You’re outta here!”