All-star appearances in HOF arguments: pointless?

[FirstTimer]

Originally Posted by Rory Sparrow

To use a tired metaphor, I think you are missing the forest for the trees.

The point isn't "Griffey made 13 all-star games, but that doesn't mean anything". The point is that for guys like Bill Madlock and Jack Morris who missed out on appearing in 10+ all-star games wasn't really through any fault of their own. You shouldn't look at a guy's HOF resume and dismiss it because he only made the all-star game 4 or 5 times.

I agree with your point overall Rory I just don't agree with discounting ASG's completely. Sure it's part of the resume but it's a minor one at that and shouldn't be the tipping point for the guy getting in or being left out. I don't feel they are pointless...just feel that they shouldn't be given a ton of weight

They shouldn't be rendered worthless because Gil Meche was an AS once. I think intelligent people can weigh and measure the value and context of a guys ASG appearances. Morons likely can't but they suck anyways......so who cares?