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“Signs You’re Not Going To The Hall Of Fame”


  1. You’re a member of the 5/5 Club—five restraining orders in five years
  2. Numbers compare favorably with Mario Mendoza’s
  3. Your web site doesn’t even have 3,000 hits
  4. Not only are you unsure what hat you’ll wear on your plaque, none of your former teams allowed you to keep a hat
  5. No way your parole officer allows you to go to Cooperstown in August
  6. In a moment of frustration, you “donated” all of your old jock straps to the Hall
  7. “No one ever played more games drunk” didn’t earn you the votes you hoped it would
  8. Counted on good performance in next Olympics to earn votes
  9. Cooperstown wants your glove—so you can’t keep playing
  10. Your steroid-inflated head too big to fit on plaque


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