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?

Fortunately for us, there was a lot of actual baseball happenings this week, so we discuss the Hall of Fame list and discuss who should get in, who will get in, and how many times Rickey Henderson will refer to himself in the third person during his, what will undoubtedly be, epic acceptance speech. We don’t actually discuss the last one, but Rickey thinks we should.

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?

We also discuss the idea of changing the criteria for voting for the Hall of Fame, especially with the shift to new media. Hell, can we vote?

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.

We talk MVP/MOP and wonder how you can define value. Should the MVP be named after a player like the Cy Young Award is?

We then get into the Winter Meetings. Who will be moved? Who will make any money? Will the Obama Tax Plan and lack of money anywhere in this country change the way contracts are constructed? And what makes someone a Type A/B Free Agent? Is it really just based on one year’s performance?

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.