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Knoxville Regional to feature Baseball Hall-of-Famer Scott Rolen

Baseball Hall-of-Famer Scott Rolen and Indiana will play in the NCAA Tournament Knoxville Regional at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

No. 1 overall seed Tennessee (50-11) will host the NCAA Tournament Knoxville Regional, Friday-Monday, at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

The Vols will play Northern Kentucky (35-22) on Friday. First pitch is slated for 7 p.m. EDT and will be televised by SEC Network.

Southern Miss (41-18) will play Indiana (32-24-1) to open play in the Knoxville Regional on Friday at 1 p.m. EDT (SEC Network+).

Scott Rolen serves as a special assistant to Indiana head coach Jeff Mercer. Rolen was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2023.

He is in his sixth year on the Hoosiers’ coaching staff, serving as director of player development, assisting with on-campus recruiting in accordance with NCAA rules and collaborates with Indiana’s coaching staff when preparing for practice and competition.

Rolen played in Major League Baseball from 1996-2012 for Philadelphia, St. Louis, Toronto and Cincinnati.

He won a Gold Glove Award eight times and was a seven-time All-Star. Rolen won a World Series championship with the Cardinals in 2006.

READ: One interesting fact about every 2024 Tennessee baseball player

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The Baseball Hall of Fame remains one of the silliest things in all of sports

It remains hard to take this museum all too seriously.

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Tuesday was the day of the year when the baseball people make an announcement about former players (or player) who were lucky enough to be voted into a museum in upstate New York called the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

It was also the time of year for lots of baseball fans to be reminded that the the voting process isn’t really one that should be taken too seriously and that the museum doesn’t mean as much to fans these days because of the list of amazing players who will never get the call to the Hall.

Scott Rolen was the only player voted in this year, as he got just over the threshold of 75 percent of the votes that it takes to make it. Rolen was a fantastic third baseman during his career and won a World Series with the Cardinals.  He was a 7-time All-Star in his 17 years and in his final five years he played 88, 40, 133, 65, and 92 games.

Does Rolen deserve to be a Hall of Famer? Sure. That’s not really my argument here, but I guess it does have some impact on what I’m going to say.

Here are two names from yesterday that didn’t get voted in – Manny Ramirez, and Alex Rodriguez. They once again join a group of other all-time greats like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens (who are no longer on the ballot) that will likely never get their named called and it’s why we shouldn’t take this Hall of Fame thing all that seriously.

Those guys listed above aren’t getting in because of their involvement with the steroid era, which was a pretty fun era of baseball but that’s besides the point. We all know the arguments about why they aren’t getting in and why the should get in.

Scott Rolen was a great player. Manny, A-Rod, Bonds, and Clemens were a whole lot better and have legacies that will never be forgotten.

We baseball fans know who the best players of all time were and we don’t need some museum to give the names on that list any type of validation.

Though it would give the place a lot more credibility.

Quick hits: Brady acting lame about fine… Chiefs fans mad about Super Bowl ref… Joe Burrow thirst videos are raging… And more. 

– Tom Brady is being super lame about being fined for his dirty move against the Cowboys in their NFC wild card game.

– The Chiefs aren’t in the Super Bowl yet but their fans are already mad about who is going to be the ref in that game.

– The Joe Burrow thirst videos on TikTok are RAGING right now.

– This mic’d up moment before the Giants-Eagles game is too good.

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MLB fans fumed over a Hall of Fame voting process that inexplicably saw just 1 player picked

Baseball Hall of Fame gonna Baseball Hall of Fame.

The Baseball Hall of Fame’s selection process returned on Tuesday to stupefy and enrage baseball fans across the world.

While there were many deserving candidates eligible for 2023’s class, only former Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Scott Rolen crossed the 75-percent voting threshold to earn a spot in the sport’s prestigious hall.

The Hall’s Contemporary Era Committee selected former first baseman Fred McGriff in December. He’s the only other player that will join Rolen in this year’s class.

Rolen also played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Toronto Blue Jays and Cincinnati Reds during his illustrious career. He’s a seven-time MLB All-Star, eight-time Golden Glove winner and 2006 World Series champion.

While Rolen more than earned his spot in the hall, baseball fans wondered why he was the only one selected of his grouping.

Former Colorado Rockies first baseman Todd Helton, former Houston Astros relief pitcher Billy Wagner and former Atlanta Braves outfielder Andruw Jones were among those who received attention from the voters. Although, it was not enough to earn a spot in the Hall of Fame this time.

The sole fact that it takes a player at least 292 votes to be named to the Hall of Fame continues to irk many baseball fans.

The Baseball Writers’ Association of America continuing to shun players who admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs (like Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire) in its voting doesn’t help quell outrage, either.