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Jan 08 2009

Here’s why Ron Santo didn’t get in the Hall of Fame – He had Bad Teeth

Posted by: Richie Rich in Announcers, Attenion Whores, Baseball Hall of Fame, Cubs

Smile!! It’s been no secret that Ron Santo desperately wants to get into the Hall of Fame. But that nasty Veterans’ Committee just won’t let him in. Even after the selection rules were changed after the 2007 elections (coincidentally or not) which gave him a better shot in 2008, he still wasn’t selected. Then again, neither was anyone else.

A number of sportswriters have been stumped for years why Santo’s not in the Hall.

Well, thanks to a Dentist’s advert on YouTube … we think we’ve figured it out. And it was right under Santo’s nose. Literally.

Ron Santo had bad teeth. And I mean bad.
Austin Powers Bad.
“Big Book of British Smiles” Bad.

And we all know that you need a great smile to get people to vote for you.

Don’t believe me?
Check out these before and after closeups of Santo’s choppers …

Ron Santo's New teeth

That transformation is thanks to one Kevin Landers, DDS – a Chicago-based Cosmetic Dentist. He can owe me for the free advertising. Here’s Santo doing a video testimonial for Landers’ services after he got some veneers and dental implants.

I’m sure no one is more appreciative than Santo’s broadcast partner, Pat Hughes. Okay, maybe Santo’s wife.

Ron Santo Santo didn’t always have that mouth. While he was playing, he had a pretty little mouth full of pearly whites. But Santo’s long time battle with Diabetes probably didn’t do any favors for his smile. People with high levels of blood glucose are more susceptible to dental problems.

But now, when the Baseball Hall of Fame Veterans’ Committee holds its next vote in 2010, there will be nothing to keep them from voting in Ron Santo.

Except for maybe all that desperate pandering for a HoF vote that Santo has been doing for the past ten years. And all that time he spends stumbling over words and thoughts in the WGN Radio broadcast booth.

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