We Need a Screwed up Election
January 13th, 2009 by
Sully Baseball suggests a way to get unanimous Hall of Fame votes and bring totals for Jay Bell down to zero:
And the only way writers will end this stupid habit is to have a wonderfully insane scenario happen that isn’t 100% farfetched.
- Enough voters leave off a sure fire Hall of Famer to make sure they aren’t unanimous that it takes them off the Ballot completely. (Mike and Mike brought this up on their show pondering how someone like Greg Maddux would be left off the ballot forever due to this stupid mindset.)
- Enough voters throw a sympathy vote to a non deserving entity that they get elected into the Hall of Fame.
This is the way Jesse Ventura ended up governor of Minnesota. An old Tank McNamara comic strip did something like this with the All-Star game, where lots of random fans decided to write in Marv Throneberry.
I don’t have a problem with Jay Bell getting a couple of votes. Two writers liked Jay Bell enough to give him a vote. Big deal. I just don’t understand the ones who leave players like Henderson off the ballot.
Source:We Need a Screwed up Election
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