Dante's Inferno

Swing swing swipe! I get MC's on my third strike
My hot dog is done, I'm in the dugout, check it
I know I wreck shop, tip-top, heads bop, heads drop
and many rappers get senile...

Rockies Nation is proud and beaming the past few days, as Dante Bichette received three votes in the recent Hall of Fame voting. That’s the baseball Hall of Fame, not the Mullet Hall of Fame, or the Lazy Outfielder Giving Up Triples and Inside the Park Home Run Hall of Fame, or the Fatty Hall of Fame, or even the Inflated Coors Field Numbers Hall of Fame.

We’d all like to see which three writers voted for Dante and the papers they represent. Perhaps it was The Meth Times Tribune, or the Crack Courier, or the Dementia Daily? He finished ahead of such MLB luminaries as Jay Buhner and Wally Joyner, and just behind former teammate Bret Saberhagen. We can make the push in 08 and actually build a Rockies’ wing! (Former Rox player Dale Murphy also received votes.)

(NOTE: Way back in the late 80s we played Fantasy Baseball and former Slushy Gutter winner Juck drafted a young Dante with California. We used to play "doubleheaders" where we would divide our rosters into two teams. Juck put his lineups into a "white" and "black" team and put Dante on his black team. It wasn't until weeks later when we finally got a Dante baseball card that we discovered his actual skin color. A few weeks later we learned his name was pronounced "Bichette," not "Bichettey." True story.)

Dante Bichette career stats