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In response to "Is the common thought now" by Strongbad

Yeah, the process is such a joke that some guys will never vote for players like Chipper who are surefire first ballot HOFers.

Posted by David (aka David) Jan 25 '18, 09:20

Otherwise, they'd get more votes than players who didn't. Junior's the closest we'll ever see, and he still had some assholes not vote for him.

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it also annoys me that some do not even cast all 10 votes. - groiny Jan 25, 09:21 9
- Meh. You vote for however many you think belong in. You don't vote for unworthy people just because you have extra votes. -- nm - Ender Jan 25, 09:35 1
  - looking at the list, there are no unworthy name on there. - groiny Jan 25, 09:38
- I mean, you could legitimately not think 10 of these guys belong - Reagen Jan 25, 09:32
- Yup, the voting process is impossibly broken. -- nm - David Jan 25, 09:24 5
  - The ghost of Joe DiMaggio will haunt them to their days because sportswriters in the 60s had a stupid standard. -- nm - Reagen Jan 25, 09:37
  - I find most sports writes have such big egos, that they do shit just to be different. -- nm - groiny Jan 25, 09:27 3
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      - for sure, and we always talk about snubs with that too. -- nm - groiny Jan 25, 09:30 1
        
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