Monday, September 8, 2008

Vote for Tom Cheek

You should vote for long-time Blue Jay broadcaster Tom Cheek for the Ford Frick award.  You can do so here.  More info about Tom is available through that link or here.

This will be annoying in a couple of ways.  First, the Baseball Hall of Fame requires an insane amount of information to let you vote, so uncheck all the follow-up spam that you don't want.  Second, this is not a direct election but rather a pre-screen - the top candidates in the online voting are assured only of being in the group of ten that get final consideration by a 20-person committee, mostly made up of past winners.

The award is to recognize service by baseball broadcasters (it's not to actually put them "in the Hall of Fame" - though since they do get a display area of their own it's kind of a moot point).  However, it's hard to think of anyone more deserving and Tom's been a finalist four straight years now and should finally win.  Current broadcaster Mike Wilner has reasons why here.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tell me please that you don't have to re-enter all that personal information each day that you vote!

David Denomme said...

Sadly, I'd suspect the answer is yes - but I'm not really sure since I've used two different browsers to apply my two (so far) votes.

Anonymous said...

I can say definitively that you are required to complete the same information every time you vote. Nevertheless, it is worth the effort.