ON THE DL
Kevin Kaduk of Yahoo Talks Hot Stove on the DL
Kevin Kaduk from Yahoo! re-joins the show to talk about the Hot Stove...or as Nick calls it, the hot plate. There hasn’t been much in the way of baseball moves this off season, so we talk about what a baseball blogger does when there is no baseball about which to blog.
In other words, how off is the off-season?

We get into the “first-ballot” Hall of Fame moniker and ask ‘Duk about his thoughts on the matter. If you are a Hall of Famer, shouldn’t you be in the Hall? Why does it take some guys 14 years to get in? Basically it seems like there are two Hall of Fames...one for “first-ballot” guys and one for everyone else. So if you don’t get in on your second, third, fourth, tenth ballot...does it cheapen the honor to get in because there really wasn’t anyone else good that year?
We also discuss the idea of changing the criteria for voting for the Hall of Fame, especially with the shift to new media. Currently you have to be a member of the BWAA for 10 years. Should that be relaxed with the addition of blogs and new media, or should that be as stringent as ever? Maybe if they relax it enough we can vote! We are called On the DL afterall.
We shift to the Turnkey S & E report that talks about teams’ brand loyalty with their fans, and wonder why there are so many football teams in the top 10 but only two baseball teams. ‘Duk has some interesting thoughts on that, and how the game perceives itself.


Last, does what happen in Vegas stay in Vegas, or is it all going to end up on Big League Stew? How will ‘Duk go about covering such a strange event...and does any business really even happen, or just enough for all these executives to justify getting away from their families for a few days in the off-season?
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008





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