its odd bc he said it was the dumbest thing he's ever said but i mean most relievers are designated to get 3-6 outs so i mean technically its a perfect example
You did not use my absolutely scorching Prince Fielder take, nor did you use my blistering position/WAR take, therefore my new hot take is that Foolish Bailey is afraid of the tough questions and would never survive in a big market media environment
Bailey would never survive the more physical 80s and 90s era of baseball media, where players got to physically assault media members for having a dumb opinion
Yeah his MVP year should guarantee his candidacy he was arguably the best first baseman of the 2010’s him or Votto, so hopefully in a few years he’ll get his fair shake
Tommy John is why I personally like the Basketball Hall of Fame system. He (and Dusty Baker for that matter) 100% should be in for their contributions to the game. They are the people in baseball that large numbers of people will/do remember 30 years after they retire, and at it's core isn't that really what the Hall of Fame is about?
Dusty Baker I'd agree with adding in his non-playing accomplishments. But Tommy John hasn't done all that much outside of playing. I mean he didn't invent "his" surgery....
@NickRichardson He's referring to how basketball and baseball halls of fame differ as far as how high the bar is to get in. A basketball player who had an equivalent career to John (or Baker) would be a lock for entry without considering "contributions to the game" merits.
I see the Hall as being for heroes of the sport. Great stats, valuable contributions, and outstanding (relevant) character are all worth considering. On the other hand any serious rules or ethics violations should bar the player automatically. By all means you can still respect their skill, but please, keep them out.
No the Hall of Fame is for players that were damn near the best at their position at the minimum for basically a decade plus. Thats what a HOFer is. Thats why tmac & yao shouldn’t be in the basketball hall of fame like so many others the NBA threw in to be nice
I think that in a effort to make the hall more exclusive we should have a reverse ballot every year, where each writer is also mandated to vote 5 people OUT of the hall.
MBDTF > Yeezus > LR > TLOP > CD > 808s > Graduation > Ye > JoK Not ranked: Group projects and Donda. Donda will probably sit below TLOP but I'm not sure where yet.
My hot take is that Jeff Kent is a HOFer. He leads 2nd baseman all time in home runs, has the longevity a lot of people look for and was a good postseason performer. Plus he had the greatest exit speech on Survivor history.
@@bootmii98 if were being honest, most of the great players werent and I kinda doubt he was clean lol, but also since he never got caught (if he was juicing) or really even mentioned in the balco stuff/canseco book...etc Im inclined to give him a pass
Tommy John should get in on the “Fame” part of the Hall. Because his name is now in the sport with Tommy John surgery. So that alone is enough for me but I see the Hall as a place not just for the best players but a place for those most important to the sport as well.
Is it weird that I kinda like Foolish Bailey more than Foolish Baseball? I love the laid back approach in these videos, really gives out a comforting feeling while watching.
As an adjuster who works in bodily injury, my first thought was “sure you don’t want them to get injured, but what if theyre not hurt and just milk 3 months of chiropractor treatment?”
Accolades are funny to look at because you can go back from any year before 2000 and alot of the time the MVP, CY Young and Silver Sluggers are "wrong"
5:03 I chucked even as a football fan but also get a little sad because we lost John Madden this week and if anyone knew what they were talking about in who were/are the truly great players of the sport, it was that dude.
Love the idea of the HOF for baseball lifers like dusty baker or any other guys who had solid if not amazing careers but were also great managers or GMs, also would include pioneers in something like Tommy John. Never thought about it but these guys have left significant marks and have been there for huge moments in the game. Their names will always come up somehow I feel.
I’m with you on John’s case. He’s an 80 fWAR dude, and when you combine that with his status as a pioneer it’s an easy yes (especially compared to other famous accumulators like Moyer who ended up more around 45 fWAR).
One thing I feel people evaluating baseball today fail to take into account is, what was valued at the time the player was playing? So, today, it doesn’t matter how many innings a pitcher pitches, or how many wins he has. That absolutely mattered when Tommy John played. Sure, no one cares about a twenty-win season or 288 career wins. When Tommy John pitched, 20 wins was a huge number. 300 wins was a sure-fire Hall of Famer. John got to 288 DESPITE missing a year undergoing a primitive version of a surgery that now bears his name. One more year in the prime of his career and Tommy John is a 300-game winner. In my opinion, he has even more of a BASEBALL case to be made for Curt Schilling, who got to 216 wins in a time when wins still counted.
Keith Hernandez. His numbers aren't flashy, but he was a feared hitter for his time. Not to mention they literally changed rules about defensive positioning (all players aside from the catcher must be in fair territory) to nerf him. Best defensive 1B ever? Probably. Add in a batting title, an MVP (shared... weird), and two gigantic World Series Game 7 hits (1982, 1986), and he's got a pretty complete resume.
I appreciate your honesty about the soul crushing monotony and regurgitation of the "creative" entertainment industry. Let me also add that I would be totally lost without that industry to distract me from the voices.
It would have been interesting if Edwin Encarnacion went on a Nelson Cruz type run going into his 40s and ended with 500 homers. It looked super doable after his 2019 season Also because I'm clearly a homer for the blue jays, John Olerud was robbed of 1993 MVP and should be in the hall of fame
Olerud only getting like 10% of the vote is completely shocking. Dude was pretty much great everywhere, weirdly seemed to be involved with a lot of winning teams, has decent counting stats.... I don't get it. Dave Steib and Olerud should probably be in the Hall of Fame.
@@adamthompson7104 Fun Fact: Olerud played only a handful of minor league games, and that was at the end of his career. So he actually went straight from the draft to the bigs.
Thank you for doing the Dimitri Petkovic voice from backyard baseball for the Omar Vizquel take because you are, canonically, a young adult Dimitri Petkovic revolutionizing the game through science
Not sure if I would put him in at the end of the day, but Joe Nathan deserves more consideration than he’s likely to ever get given that he missed the 5% barrier.
I have been to the HOF several times and I get chills when I enter into the hall with the plaques (like being on hallowed ground). The jackets are dope I agree!
The gripe with the Football HOF that I have is players on any All-Decade Team First or Second Team should be in the Hall of Fame at any position including Kickers, Punters, and Return Specialists. They do play the game.
probably the most ridiculous exclusion that i can think of. if the 1994 season didn’t have a strike he would’ve had 500 home runs and been first ballot
Also, the Accolades>Analytics take isn't that hot of a take. If the Baseball Writers give you a bazillion awards during your career and then they're like "ehhh....sure you have 224 Gold Gloves that we voted to give you but we, the very same people, feel like changing our standards now" you'd do a double take.
Tommy John surgery was almost called the Brent Strom surgery too because he got it right after Tommy. Theres an interview Strom did with Collin McHugh on McHugh's podcast The Twelve Six podcast on Spotify you should definitely check out.
@@finnhobart9100 indeed he does pretty great listen. Go soak in all his episodes. Some great baseball guys and he did pitching ninja a while back before he blew up. Just a lot of great baseball stories.
It’s pretty funny how Paul Goldschmidt was a big topic in this video, and well I think now we can all agree he’s a HOF if he was on the Olerud fringe at the time of this
14:20 I think there should be a separate wing in the hall of fame that is strictly based on postseason performance. Not full HOFers but Postseason HOFers
If you focus exclusively on the "Fame" aspect of the Hall of Fame, i.e. mainstream popularity, you might as well induct a guy like Bo Jackson. He was The Guy in the 80's.
Terrible comparison imo. A DH simply doesn't play defense at all, not hard to understand why a RF with the same ofensive production as a DH will be more valuable.
@@Daniel-gw2tb But it’s not the DH’s fault the manager doesn’t put him in RF. You can grade and assess them only on their offense, so why should the “what if” of their defense even matter?
"Reliever is the DH of pitching"
This quote changed my entire life's perspective
its odd bc he said it was the dumbest thing he's ever said but i mean most relievers are designated to get 3-6 outs so i mean technically its a perfect example
@@allsickcjj3023so then it wouldn’t be the dumbest thing he’s said?
Its was simple yet extremely profound at the same time. Wasnt dumb imo at all
If it was changed to “closer” is the DH of pitching. Then 100% agree. But I think reliever is too broad of a term
Switch it to “left-handed specialist”.
You did not use my absolutely scorching Prince Fielder take, nor did you use my blistering position/WAR take, therefore my new hot take is that Foolish Bailey is afraid of the tough questions and would never survive in a big market media environment
I dont know what your questions were. But I agree with you.
Bailey would never survive the more physical 80s and 90s era of baseball media, where players got to physically assault media members for having a dumb opinion
So what are they
@@hughjass5156 no need to be such a big butt head about it
@@ebrown112 Eyyyy lmao
"Goldschmidt doesn't even really have to be good from here on out, just not bad"
Goldschmidt: Wins MVP
“Paul Goldschmidt just has to put up 112 OPS+ seasons, relax!”
Proceeds to do 7.8 rWAR, 180 OPS+, strong MVP candidacy at the age of 34
*wins MVP
Yeah his MVP year should guarantee his candidacy he was arguably the best first baseman of the 2010’s him or Votto, so hopefully in a few years he’ll get his fair shake
@@mr.johnson9252 *wins 2027 World Series
@@dannyhightower911 Lol maybe if he is traded to the astros
@@SonofHsu16 I think he is a lock now
One day, Bailey will get inducted into the HOF for truly revolutionizing baseball.
No
@@gakster29 yes
In the same class as Jomboy
Nah, isn't happening. Just recently came out that Bailey uses PED's.
@@lewdvlesh Player Enraging Decisions
Tommy John is why I personally like the Basketball Hall of Fame system. He (and Dusty Baker for that matter) 100% should be in for their contributions to the game. They are the people in baseball that large numbers of people will/do remember 30 years after they retire, and at it's core isn't that really what the Hall of Fame is about?
Dusty Baker I'd agree with adding in his non-playing accomplishments. But Tommy John hasn't done all that much outside of playing. I mean he didn't invent "his" surgery....
@NickRichardson He's referring to how basketball and baseball halls of fame differ as far as how high the bar is to get in. A basketball player who had an equivalent career to John (or Baker) would be a lock for entry without considering "contributions to the game" merits.
I see the Hall as being for heroes of the sport. Great stats, valuable contributions, and outstanding (relevant) character are all worth considering. On the other hand any serious rules or ethics violations should bar the player automatically. By all means you can still respect their skill, but please, keep them out.
No the Hall of Fame is for players that were damn near the best at their position at the minimum for basically a decade plus. Thats what a HOFer is. Thats why tmac & yao shouldn’t be in the basketball hall of fame like so many others the NBA threw in to be nice
@@jakshallman8850 McGrady was on all NBA team 7 straight years. Other than that, great comment
I think that in a effort to make the hall more exclusive we should have a reverse ballot every year, where each writer is also mandated to vote 5 people OUT of the hall.
ESPECIALLY the way that some players’ careers have aged badly
Too much and too often, if you're serious. But being serious, yeah some people should be removed.
I'm in
Yeah, but a lot of these writers are too stupid.
It would kinda hurt some people's feelings though
Dusty Baker invented the high-five, he should be in the Hall of Fame just for that
Propaganda.
need a definitive ranking of kanye’s discography from bailey ASAP
@Jarod Price CD > LR > MBDTF > KSG > 808s.
Everything else is not worth ranking.
MBDTF > Yeezus > LR > TLOP > CD > 808s > Graduation > Ye > JoK
Not ranked: Group projects and Donda. Donda will probably sit below TLOP but I'm not sure where yet.
@@maaarcus7227 lmfao you’re insane but i respect it
@@maaarcus7227 switch MBDTF and LR, replace KSG wit graduation and 808s wit TLOP
@@namor679 I don't really think Graduation is all that good. It's the most solid 5/10 of all time and a bunch of the songs are mid and aged horribly.
My hot take is that Jeff Kent is a HOFer. He leads 2nd baseman all time in home runs, has the longevity a lot of people look for and was a good postseason performer. Plus he had the greatest exit speech on Survivor history.
thank you for letting me know about that speech. jeff kent HOF easy now
I forgot he was even on Survivor but yeah he’s definitely a HOFer
Most important question: was he clean?
@@bootmii98 if were being honest, most of the great players werent and I kinda doubt he was clean lol, but also since he never got caught (if he was juicing) or really even mentioned in the balco stuff/canseco book...etc Im inclined to give him a pass
I agree but I think if he won a few championships, he 100% would be in right now.
I’m glad I got to hear “clogging up the base paths”. One of the ultimate dinosaur baseball guy phrases
Hot take: the creator of Tommy John surgery, frank Jobe, should be in the hall of fame.
Put Tommy John in as a player and Jobe in as a pioneer
This is a solid take
wouldn't call that hot at all, hundreds of thousands of players at all levels owe their careers to him
"He (Paul Goldschmidt) just needs to finish his career better than John Olerud did."
Wins MVP the next season.
"Goldy just doesnt have to play bad for the next couple years and he'll get in" - Foolish 2022
Goldy 2022 - Wins MVP
Tommy John should get in on the “Fame” part of the Hall. Because his name is now in the sport with Tommy John surgery. So that alone is enough for me but I see the Hall as a place not just for the best players but a place for those most important to the sport as well.
He’s also one of the few pitchers to get 400 quality starts, and everyone other than himself and Roger Clemens with that many is a Hall of Famer.
Is it weird that I kinda like Foolish Bailey more than Foolish Baseball? I love the laid back approach in these videos, really gives out a comforting feeling while watching.
The Ross youngs hot take had me looking at my ceiling, excellent rebuttal
Well, this is going to be interesting…
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As an insurance adjuster, who works specifically in total loss, I found your total loss joke exceptionally funny...and somewhat true!
As an adjuster who works in bodily injury, my first thought was “sure you don’t want them to get injured, but what if theyre not hurt and just milk 3 months of chiropractor treatment?”
Tuiyuiptuotrylk
Ross Youngs was such a great player. A 7 year prime with 30 WAR and a 137 OPS+, especially given his era and position.
Even if he wouldn’t be a deserving Hall of Famer statistically, Youngs certainly had a great career for himself.
Accolades are funny to look at because you can go back from any year before 2000 and alot of the time the MVP, CY Young and Silver Sluggers are "wrong"
As a Padres fan, I cannot abide this indirect Tony Gwynn and Ken Caminiti disrespect. We don’t have much, just leave us alone!
@@hopsonkim4952 Tony Gwynn's gotta be the exception to this guy's take. And I'm not a Padres fan!
Because you are looking through the lens of analytics, which people who have the accolades take do not agree with.
@@brandonedwards6119Also, voters today have access to the analytics and voters further back didn’t
Jim Edmonds is a top 10 all time CF and was ABSOLUTELY ROBBED
Here's a hot take: if Shohei Ohtani never plays baseball again, he should make the Hall for his 2021 alone. It's that good.
I didn’t even realize Tommy John wasn’t in the hall of fame as a pioneer… dude literally changed the entire landscape of pitchers.
Bailey please make a video about Chase Headley winning back to back player of the month awards in 2012
12:30 I cackled at you getting on to the guy for using a basketball term and immediately talking about power plays and corner kicks lmao
5:03 I chucked even as a football fan but also get a little sad because we lost John Madden this week and if anyone knew what they were talking about in who were/are the truly great players of the sport, it was that dude.
Update: paul goldschmidt did not listen to bailey, he moved heaven and earth
"just put up a 112 OPS+ over the next 3 years"
proceeds to have a 180 ops+ and win mvp
The fact that I can get my baseball and Kanye fix in the same video is something I am truly grateful for.
Glad to see Bailey finally representing Denmark - a country that has been suspiciously absent from his video thus far.
Obviously the Denmark shirt is only for HOF hot take days, any true FB fan should know this
David Freese is in my “favorite dodgers but who only played for them like a year or two” hall of fame
Love the idea of the HOF for baseball lifers like dusty baker or any other guys who had solid if not amazing careers but were also great managers or GMs, also would include pioneers in something like Tommy John. Never thought about it but these guys have left significant marks and have been there for huge moments in the game. Their names will always come up somehow I feel.
I’m with you on John’s case. He’s an 80 fWAR dude, and when you combine that with his status as a pioneer it’s an easy yes (especially compared to other famous accumulators like Moyer who ended up more around 45 fWAR).
One thing I feel people evaluating baseball today fail to take into account is, what was valued at the time the player was playing?
So, today, it doesn’t matter how many innings a pitcher pitches, or how many wins he has. That absolutely mattered when Tommy John played. Sure, no one cares about a twenty-win season or 288 career wins. When Tommy John pitched, 20 wins was a huge number. 300 wins was a sure-fire Hall of Famer.
John got to 288 DESPITE missing a year undergoing a primitive version of a surgery that now bears his name. One more year in the prime of his career and Tommy John is a 300-game winner.
In my opinion, he has even more of a BASEBALL case to be made for Curt Schilling, who got to 216 wins in a time when wins still counted.
@@charlesbalter3470 Is anybody saying that Schilling shouldnt' be in for non political reason?
"I wouldn't call it a slam dunk, I wouldn't call it a power play, I wouldn't call it a corner kick... " had me rolling
Bailey making a subtle statement about not needing performance enhancers by not using a mic stand. Impressive.
Loved this. Looking for your top 50 2022 list.
7:57
My new nickname for Tommy John is Tommi Jean. He gets to be French now. Well done Bailey.
Keith Hernandez. His numbers aren't flashy, but he was a feared hitter for his time. Not to mention they literally changed rules about defensive positioning (all players aside from the catcher must be in fair territory) to nerf him. Best defensive 1B ever? Probably.
Add in a batting title, an MVP (shared... weird), and two gigantic World Series Game 7 hits (1982, 1986), and he's got a pretty complete resume.
also Seinfeld
I appreciate your honesty about the soul crushing monotony and regurgitation of the "creative" entertainment industry. Let me also add that I would be totally lost without that industry to distract me from the voices.
That graduation take made me put my coffee down semi aggressively
It would have been interesting if Edwin Encarnacion went on a Nelson Cruz type run going into his 40s and ended with 500 homers. It looked super doable after his 2019 season
Also because I'm clearly a homer for the blue jays, John Olerud was robbed of 1993 MVP and should be in the hall of fame
Olerud only getting like 10% of the vote is completely shocking. Dude was pretty much great everywhere, weirdly seemed to be involved with a lot of winning teams, has decent counting stats.... I don't get it.
Dave Steib and Olerud should probably be in the Hall of Fame.
@@adamthompson7104 Fun Fact: Olerud played only a handful of minor league games, and that was at the end of his career. So he actually went straight from the draft to the bigs.
@@adamthompson7104 Olerud didn’t get 10% of the vote.
He went one and done just like Stieb.
Hats off to another MASTERPIECE let’s gooooo babyyyy great job foolish
Thank you for doing the Dimitri Petkovic voice from backyard baseball for the Omar Vizquel take because you are, canonically, a young adult Dimitri Petkovic revolutionizing the game through science
Paul Goldschmidt is moving Heaven and Earth.
I think Joe Nathan should get in solely for the little “wow” when walking off the mound after the Ben Zobrist called strike 3 ball
Not sure if I would put him in at the end of the day, but Joe Nathan deserves more consideration than he’s likely to ever get given that he missed the 5% barrier.
I love how you just ethered a man that died nearly 100 years ago at the end there
The biggest problem with the '07 Red Sox hot take is that it would mean Kevin Cash doesn't end up making the HoF
I have been to the HOF several times and I get chills when I enter into the hall with the plaques (like being on hallowed ground). The jackets are dope I agree!
"Reliever is the DH of pitching". Thanks for adding to the hot takes.
The gripe with the Football HOF that I have is players on any All-Decade Team First or Second Team should be in the Hall of Fame at any position including Kickers, Punters, and Return Specialists. They do play the game.
Yeah, how are you considered the top player at your position for a whole decade and not be a first ballot Hall of Famer? That doesn't make sense.
Love these hot takes videos
That David Cone bit earned my subscription. well done
This is the greatest content on the internet and you cannot convince me otherwise
This video aged very well for Paul Goldie
Fred McGriff should be in the HOF
probably the most ridiculous exclusion that i can think of. if the 1994 season didn’t have a strike he would’ve had 500 home runs and been first ballot
808s and Yeezus are better than graduation. Wow, what a hot take. I’m in love
Also, the Accolades>Analytics take isn't that hot of a take. If the Baseball Writers give you a bazillion awards during your career and then they're like "ehhh....sure you have 224 Gold Gloves that we voted to give you but we, the very same people, feel like changing our standards now" you'd do a double take.
Long and middle relievers need more recognition guys like tony watson who is the all time leader in holds and has a 136 career era+.
No one is gonna go to the Hall of Fame to see Tony Watson. No one gives a crap about Tony Watson.
Tommy John surgery was almost called the Brent Strom surgery too because he got it right after Tommy. Theres an interview Strom did with Collin McHugh on McHugh's podcast The Twelve Six podcast on Spotify you should definitely check out.
Collin McHugh has a podcast?
@@finnhobart9100 indeed he does pretty great listen. Go soak in all his episodes. Some great baseball guys and he did pitching ninja a while back before he blew up. Just a lot of great baseball stories.
Did not think we were going to get Bailey’s Kanye hot takes in a vid about our HoF hot takes, but I’m so glad we did.
Yea Goldschmidt definitely hitting HOF status after his MVP
Patiently waiting for a Tyler “Nutzak” Matzek Baseball Bits episode ;)
love the Denmark football shirt, I wonder where you got it from?
Isn't it a weird coincidence that Tommy John got Tommy John's surgery?
It's even crazier what happened to Lou Gehrig.
I love that my comment is the thumbnail for this😂 You're my favorite baseball comedian on CZcams
I don't mean this as a jab, I actually think you're really funny lol
The David cone segment lmao!
Some really well written jokes in there, Bailey.
couldn't hold back the laughter for the NFL one huh? XD neither could I
The Ross Youngs rant has me DYING
Poor Rick Porcello taking riccochet shots out here man
As a Red Sox fan, I can agree he shouldn't have won Cy Young. And that year proved to be a fluke after that.
Came here for baseball hot takes and got met with the boldest kanye take of all time
It’s pretty funny how Paul Goldschmidt was a big topic in this video, and well I think now we can all agree he’s a HOF if he was on the Olerud fringe at the time of this
14:20 I think there should be a separate wing in the hall of fame that is strictly based on postseason performance. Not full HOFers but Postseason HOFers
Jack Morris should be an example of that in my opinion.
Same with most of the guys who got in on postseason performance.
if Barry Bonds makes it to the HOF, does Graduation by Kanye have a spot in the museum?
it's tragic that domestic violence is so commonplace among professional athletes that we can acronym "domestic violence" as "DV"
That ending got me dead
Thank you for mentioning shonn greene.
Hot take: a player should be inducted into the hall of fame based on the average cost of their rookie card
Thankies
My hot take is Fred Mcgriff should be in the hof. 493 hrs and no steroids. Should have been first ballot.
i did not come to foolish bailey expecting Correct Kanye Album Takes, and yet here I am, receiving them
My cold take: Dusty Baker should be in the HOF because he "invented" the high five.
Human Decency > Accolades > Analytics
we have ourselves a DAVE STIEB sighting @ 12:20 !!! re2pect, but in the troy tulowitzki type of way.
MY MAN! Graduation Slander is WELCOME!
Great take on graduation
you take that back, graduation is so fucking good
the end sent me to the moon
GOAT BACK
If the DH is in the NL this year, Barry Bonds will sign a contract with the Marlins, play a game or two and reset his HOF eligibility.
“I’m not gonna call it a slam dunk or a power play or a corner kick”
Bailey.
If you focus exclusively on the "Fame" aspect of the Hall of Fame, i.e. mainstream popularity, you might as well induct a guy like Bo Jackson. He was The Guy in the 80's.
Bagging on someone using a basketball metaphor is rich from someone in a soccer jersey.
How in the flaming hell is Tommy John not in the Hall?
Graduation has a cool album cover.
Ya just made my day with the Dave Stieb comment...... 😊😊😊
"Once you got to 300 wins you were in". *cries in Jamie Moyer*
I don’t get people who penalize for DH… it is a position. In the game. Do you penalize a second baseman for not being a shortstop?
Terrible comparison imo. A DH simply doesn't play defense at all, not hard to understand why a RF with the same ofensive production as a DH will be more valuable.
@@Daniel-gw2tb But it’s not the DH’s fault the manager doesn’t put him in RF. You can grade and assess them only on their offense, so why should the “what if” of their defense even matter?
@@JurassicParker13 I'm just saying a player who can play both offense and defense is more valuable, I have nothing against DH's
If you ever get tired of baseball, you have a fine career ahead of you as a professional comedian.
Are you gonna do another Foolish 50?