Baseball Hall of Fame ballot released

What does blank ballot mean? They signed their names but didn't vote for anyone? I can see how you might not think anyone is worthy.

My big problem is how you decide that someone is not worth you vote this year but maybe next year. They are either Hall of Famers or not.

 

Full results:

Andre Dawson 420 77.9%
Bert Blyleven 400 74.2%
Roberto Alomar 397 73.7%
Jack Morris 282 52.3%
Barry Larkin 278 51.6%
Lee Smith 255 47.3%
Edgar Martinez 195 36.2%
Tim Raines 164 30.4%
Mark McGwire 128 23.7%
Alan Trammell 121 22.4%
Fred McGriff 116 21.5%
Don Mattingly 87 16.1%
Dave Parker 82 15.2%
Dale Murphy 63 11.7%
Harold Baines 33 6.1%
Andres Galarraga 22 4.1%
Robin Ventura 7 1.3%
Ellis Burks 2 0.4%
Eric Karros 2 0.4%
Kevin Appier 1 0.2%
Pat Hentgen 1 0.2%
David Segui 1 0.2%
Mike Jackson 0 0.0%
Ray Lankford 0 0.0%
Shane Reynolds 0 0.0%
Todd Zeile 0 0.0%

While we're busy taking away people's right to vote, maybe we can eliminate whoever voted for David Segui.

 

I've got no problem with someone turning in a blank ballot if he doesn't think anyone deserves induction.

The process isn't perfect, but it's still the best Hall of Fame in sports. The fact that there's no NBA Hall of Fame is an absolute joke. Tyler Hansbrough is going to average seven points a game in the NBA and eventually be enshrined in the "Basketball Hall of Fame."

 

I could tell you who voted for Hentgen.

 

isn't there a rule that if someone doesn't receive a certain amount of votes, they're off the ballot for good? If so, who fit that bill this year?

 

So many things that make no sense.

Obviously, Dawson ahead of Alomar and Blyleven?

Jack Morris ahead of Barry Larkin?

Dawson, Morris and Lee Smith ahead of Tim Raines?

 

I think it's if you receive less than 5%, so everyone from Galarraga down.

 

Ellis Burks was fantastic on RBI Baseball.

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73.7% for Alomar. Unthinkable if you go by what he did on the field. He's a 95% first-ballot guy by what he did on the field. You don't even think twice about voting a guy like him in based on his stats.

So, 73.7% ... . Only one reason in my mind.

 

Any voter who eliminates him for one moment like that does not deserve to have a vote.

Then again, neither does the jackass who voted for David Segui. That is definitely worse than the blank ballots.

 

Good things come to those who wait.

Which reminds me of a commercial I like:

 

the writers are morans, plain and simple. Raines getting 30% is freaking joke.

 

I work with someone who did not vote for Rickey Henderson because he went to play cards in the locker room when the Mets pulled him from the playoff game.

Rickey. Fucking. Henderson.

So yeah, that's the kind of voter who still exists today.