Recent Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees

I can't answer all your points directly, but I can give my take and hope some answer how I feel:

1) HOF should have split into two entities with the post steroid era being placed in one
2) Pete Rose should be inducted then kicked out for stupidity. I hated Giamatti for what he did, but now Rose has been such an arse I don't care.
3) In the Eighties, Pete Booberoth announced the Rose thing and an Umpire cheating scandal, but said MLB could only handle one, and Rose was it.
3) Selig deserves squat after that stupid whoever wins the All Star Game gets WS home advantage
4) Joe Torre should be in as a player. Look at his stats closely
5) Ken Boyer, maybe HOF.
6) Buck O'Neil, too.
7) Shoeless Joe was involved in two trials. Amazingly in the first big one a document disappeared when needed but turned up again by a Newsman when it benefited Comiskey. Comiskeys were cheap bastards that would place a long distance call and then have the charges reversed. Says my dad.
8) Jack Morris, Curt Schilling, Mike Mussina who? Mr. Gibson. Mr. Gibson. Mr. Gibson
9) BBW used to (still may) stand for Big Beautiful Women. So is BBWAA Alcoholics Anonymous for Big Beautiful Women?
10) Snuffy Stirnweiss Appreciation Day is coming up soon. Let's all remember a guy who died too young

4) Torre never wanted to be catcher because he was afraid of the baseball and didn't want to be known as Chicken Catcher Torre (Rim Shot). He did play other positions, and many feel he was left off of HOF because Bench commanded the attention. Also, it had something to do with team popularity and how well the teams he was on did. I would have to go with Torre, myself. I got to see him play often. Berra could sway me. He and Joe Garagiollla were from here. Branch Rickey came to see them. He signed Joe to play for the Cardinals. he told Berra he would never amount to anything. Then Rickey quit the Cards, went to NY, and called Berra up there. Nice plan. Joe's brother Mickey was a wrestling announcer here, as was Joe for a while. Mickey also was host of a long running Italian Resto, Pietro's. Still in business.

8) Bob Gibson was pitching a game where the opposing team stole the signals. Forgot the batter, but he was up against Gibby (I always tell people he lets me call him that, but I've never met him) and was being given the signals. He went back to the dugout after striking out and was asked why he couldn't get a hit knowing the signals. His answer was, "That's still Mr. Gibson up on the mound."

9) Snuffy was a player who subbed for DiMaggio when he went to war. Those were The Snuffster's best couple years. He wound up quitting early due to declining performance. He died way too young in a train wreck. But for those few years he made some forget Joey D. He was a Saint Louis Brown, too. I have a love of them and knew one of the Brownies. Every year I nominate some random day, doesn't matter which, to be Snuffy Stirnweiss day. Just one more aspect of an untrained mind

But surely who got in shifts standards to highlight who didn't get in. For example Jack Morris and Bud Selig getting in seems like a huge shift in standards that should allow a bunch of others into the hall.

I can see what you mean with Selig but it seems like a slippery slope. Given his role and how much MLB benefitted from steroid era, his inclusion implies that you CAN do enough to overcome steroid involvement in order to enter the hall. If that's the case guys like Bonds, Palmeiro, and Clemens that are so over qualified for the hall shouldn't have so much trouble being elected. The same logic could be taken to lower standards even further by considering players plainly superior (Sosa, Sheffield) to recent entrants like Jim Rice.

If he had encouraged steroid use, I might agree. Of course, it can be argued that by pretending nothing was happening, he did covertly encourage it because money was what everybody connected to the game cared about during that time. That, and nothing else, otherwise so much cheating wouldn't have gone on. The Player's Union at that time was run by greedy scum who tacitly decided steroid use was good for them. Their rep, Donald Fehr, is on my blacklist of evil in the sport because of it. Personally, I wouldn't have voted for Selig because of the issue, but that is an emotional response on my part.

I never thought Jim Rice was a Hall of Famer. I believe in what Johnny Bench said: The Hall of Fame is for the great, not the near great." The standards are lower now than they were many years back. And with steroid users like Piazza already in the Hall, I've lost a lot of interest in the HoF.

I didn't look up fielding, but Chicken Catcher Torre's numbers are way better than Trammell's. More homers. About the same hits -20, more RBI's done in less years

I don't know about the HOF, but I just got 2 official MLB Astros T-shirts for half price!

I get your point but, "Did a player do something to effect the game that he wasn't supposed to do" sure hides a lot of sins (Anson was a notorious racist, Cobb purposely injured players, Raines played with vials of coke on his person, a bunch of guys were on amphetamines for years, McGwire was on anabolic steroids before they were banned, etc.). Do you think that if Manfred were replaced as comissioner, Rose gets back on his apology tour, and sports betting becomes more common place that there's a chance they'll let Rose be considered for the hall prior to his death?

 Years ago I thought Rose might get in after he passed on.  I no longer think that way.

If they gave us that discount at Smoking Pipes, more people would switch over!