Colorado Rockies: The 7 Things Rockies Fans Must Never Do

The Second Deadly Sin: Saying Larry Walker or Todd Helton aren’t worthy of the Hall of Fame

This is an easy way to have your Rockies fandom revoked almost immediately.

Two players with statistics that prove their worth in Cooperstown are forecast to have trouble getting into the Hall of Fame because of where they spent the majority of their careers. That’s a sad indictment on the state of baseball when known PED users will get in before two players who called Denver home. Go figure.

As Paul Klee wrote in his article right after this year’s Hall of Fame class was announced…

But the voting results suggest the PED knock against (Roger) Clemens and (Barry) Bonds is less of a knock than the Coors Field stigma placed on Walker. In a process that demands 75 percent of the vote for induction, Bonds and Clemens rose 9.5 (to 53.8) and 8.9 percent (54.1) from last year. They’ll make it eventually. Walker is sitting at 21.9 percent of the vote, an increase of just 6.4 from the previous year. Walker has only three more go-rounds to enter the Hall of Fame. In other words, it’s not looking good. If the Coors Effect is the case against a Rockies batter, baseball fans here should request that pitchers also are graded on a curve. It figures that Coors burdens pitchers as much as it boosts batters, right?

We wrote about Walker’s credentials here and reminded you of how great Helton was here. Not much more needs to be said.

If you believe Larry Walker or Todd Helton don’t belong in the Hall of Fame, please, we beg of you, turn in your Rockies gear as you leave your next trip to Coors Field.