Boggs for Hall of Fame...

… should be a no-brainer, yeah? Not the nicest of people, perhaps, but he’s definitely among the top 5 third basemen ever. And yet people such as Mike Downey (in the Chicago Tribune) and Chris Lynch (for Yahoo! Sports) are saying he shouldn’t be - and Downey even has a vote. Bizarre. Apparently you can’t be a Hall of Famer unless you’re at Mike Schmidt’s level - yeah, only the greatest third baseman ever. Another example of the ridiculous HoF standards to which 3Bs are held…