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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - This is a fun time of year.
Around the first week of October, I can usually count on the annual International Boxing Hall of Fame ballot arriving from the boys in Canastota – which ultimately yields both a 1,200-or-so word column in which I announce my votes, and an inbox full of emails telling me I’m a blubbering idiot.
But in 2011, it’s the gift that won’t stop giving.
Rather than simply tucking the most colorful emails into my recycle bin and waiting for next year’s batch to arrive, I decided this time to at least try to turn the cyber lemons into lemonade.
As a general rule, the responses to voting columns can be characterized one of two ways: Either 1) the readers claim the guys I’ve chosen have no earthly business on a Hall of Fame ballot to begin with (See: Ottke, Sven – circa 2009, 2010); or 2) they insist that those I’ve turned thumbs-down on have a clear and irrefutable reason to be included (see: Johnson, Mark – circa 2011). [Click Here To Read More]
Around the first week of October, I can usually count on the annual International Boxing Hall of Fame ballot arriving from the boys in Canastota – which ultimately yields both a 1,200-or-so word column in which I announce my votes, and an inbox full of emails telling me I’m a blubbering idiot.
But in 2011, it’s the gift that won’t stop giving.
Rather than simply tucking the most colorful emails into my recycle bin and waiting for next year’s batch to arrive, I decided this time to at least try to turn the cyber lemons into lemonade.
As a general rule, the responses to voting columns can be characterized one of two ways: Either 1) the readers claim the guys I’ve chosen have no earthly business on a Hall of Fame ballot to begin with (See: Ottke, Sven – circa 2009, 2010); or 2) they insist that those I’ve turned thumbs-down on have a clear and irrefutable reason to be included (see: Johnson, Mark – circa 2011). [Click Here To Read More]
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