Baseball Hall of Fame ballot released

I metaphorically spit on that opinion and everything it represents. It's willful ignorance and nothing more.

 

There's never been a year without a deserving candidate. Or several.

Going into this ballot there were 203 former major league players enshrined in a little over 70 years. That's almost three per season, and we now have more players than ever before. The odds that none are worthy in any given year are pretty astronomical.

 

Having high standards is hardly willful ignorance. But what would you know about high standards?

 

It's not high standards. It's pretending the world is something it's not and calling it high standards. It's deciding baseball is what you want it to be and ignoring what it is. Willful ignorance.

 

Jay Mariotti sent in a blank ballot because undeserved attention is the mother's milk of his illustrious career.

 

i would agree it's highly unlikely especially with the mistakes of the past but if those mistakes stop happening there may be a year where there just isn't anyone deserving. Unlikely, but possible.

 

Then I'll amend to say that it's theoretically possible that there will be a year where a blank ballot is justifiable, but it hasn't happened yet.

 

I have more respect for the writers who pick one or two in most years, rather than take the "Everybody gets ice cream" approach that Jayson Stark did, who actually lamented not being able to vote for Andres Galarraga, because he already voted for 10.

It should be a rare year when more than two or three get in, like when Fisk, Yount, Brett and Ryan all did.

 

yet you believe Dawson is a hall of famer.

 

I get the sense that the voters are split into two camps. There are the guys who vote for 7-10 guys each year and there are the ones who will almost never vote for more than two.

I wish they voted the way they do for the football HOF, just with more accountability.

 

In your opinion, Rick, there has never been a year without a deserving candidtae.
In others' opinions, there have been.

Why is your opinion right and theirs wrong?

It's also good to know that some here are telling every Hall of Fame voter they MUST vote for Randy Johnson.

Oh, and if the "idiot" who voted for David Segui also voted for Dawson, Blyleven, Alomar and Raines, why should he lose his vote?

Some of your ideas about taking peoples' votes away is outright stupidity.

 

I'm not about to get in a pissing match over this, but what's wrong with holding the Hall of Fame to a standard that's above just pretty good? That you call it willful ignorance is pompous and reeks of ignorance in and of itself. The voter of whom I spoke had more baseball knowledge in his pinky finger than you've demonstrated in nearly 5,500 posts.