Even Chicago Says No Hall For Sosa

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1. Stormin Norman says:

   June 17, 2009 at 10:15 am

   Hmmm….you have to think White Sox fans might be influencing this poll a bit…
2. dhaab says:

   June 17, 2009 at 10:44 am

   What Stormin said.

   Also, I have to comment on the way this town SO quickly turned on Sosa at the end of his career. Sammy was adored in Chicago when he was bombing 50 dingers a year, but almost immediately when his numbers started to drop, Cubs fans dropped him like a 3 dollar bill. As a semi-neutral observer, it was pretty ridiculous to me.
3. Lou says:

   June 17, 2009 at 10:47 am

   Good point, Stormin. Sammy does deserve to be in the Hall in my opinion. I don’t see this controversy dying down anytime soon.

   I’m with Lou Piniella — if anyone is going to break stories based on information from people that have seen this mystery list, they should have to release all the names on the list.
4. The Zoner says:

   June 17, 2009 at 11:41 am

   Yes only WSox fans visit the Trib, a traditionally Cubs newspaper.

   As for Sammy, people turned on him because he became a cheater that became bigger than the team. Unlike St. Louis fans, who still bow at the altar of McGwire.
5. dhaab says:

   June 17, 2009 at 11:58 am

   He became a cheater? Why, because he had cork in his bat? LOL
   What a lame excuse. The ONLY reason fans turned on Sosa was because his offensive numbers went down. They put up with all of his crap just fine when he was putting up monster numbers year after year.
6. Schmidty says:

   June 17, 2009 at 12:47 pm

   I disagree Dhaab…REAL Cubs fans didn’t respect Sosa because enough folks knew he thought he was bigger than the team. I’ll agree that the beer-swilling shirtless bleacher fans who didn’t ever even watch the game worshipped him (and yes, there are way too many of these people around), but once the steroid rumors started coming out for a lot of players, folks started jumping off his bandwagon. The cork event and 2004 walkout just put icing on the cake.
7. The Zoner says:

   June 17, 2009 at 1:05 pm

   and the Manny Alexander car/roids thing…I;m not going to rehash everything but it became clear what the deal was. No one believed his stupid cork story.
8. paneech says:

   June 17, 2009 at 7:13 pm

   good post Zoner, comical how he proclaimed his innocence a week or so ago when he decided to mention he will be officially retiring soon…