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Derek Jeter and Larry Walker elected to Baseball Hall of Fame for 2020 - Jeter gets 99.7% of the vote, one vote shy of unanimous
- Thread starter Empyrean Cocytus
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If I know baseball HOF voters well enough, the guy voted specifically so Jeter wouldn't get unanimous and not for actual baseball reasons.
Missing from that line-up: Lara Dutta (Miss Universe 2000), Joy Enriquez (singer and actress), Vida Guerra (model), Rachel Uchitel. I guess they're the relief pitchers.
Jeter is a deserving HOFer but he's generally been overrated because of NY Yankees bias and it's absolutely absurd that Barry Bonds, arguably the greatest of all-time, is not a HOFer yet. I don't give a crap about steroids, many people were using them and the MLB certainly knew they were being used but delighted in it as long as they could because of the ratings boost they were getting with all of the home runs.
Yeah this is where I'm at. I think Jeter's career deserved a unanimous vote but at the same time having Jeter and Rivera as the only guys ever at 100% would look pretty silly. 23 voters didn't vote for Willie Mays ffs, lol.
Jeter will be alright. He's in fine company.
And point out the 60% of voters that are fine with cheaters getting in.
It has nothing to do with some arbitrary standard of being worthy of a unanimous vote. For each HOF voter it is a binary choice, is Jeter a HOF? If yes then vote so. Don't worry about what others are doing or apply some arbitrary baseball writers unspoken rules. Same idea should have applied to Junior and all the other greats.
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For those wondering (since he's being pinpointed as the dissenter on social media), it's not Dan Shaughnessy, the Boston Globe's Red Sox writer and one of the most devout Red Sox homers (and Yankees haters) on the planet. Like, this is a guy so biased towards the Sox that even Boston FANS think he's crazy.
Anyway, he only voted for one player - Derek Jeter.
Anyway, he only voted for one player - Derek Jeter.
If you follow @NotMrTibbs at all on twitter, you would know there were a shit tonne of "clown shoe" voters anyway. Peter Gammons being the biggest waste of a vote.
I'm really looking forward to the voters twisting themselves in knots a couple years from now to justify their inevitable induction of David Ortiz while still keeping Bonds out.
I'm happy to see Larry Walker get in. Jeter is a no brainer. It's just comical that the HoF will never include the all time hits or home run kings.
There's always at least one asshole "for the purity of baseball we can NEVER be unanimous!" guy... lol
Whoever didn't vote for Jeter needs to removed from the pool of voters. I'm definitely no Yankees or Jeter fan, but not voting for him reveals a deep misunderstanding of baseball and/or bias that should not be tolerated.
Quote below said it pretty well.
If you can cheat to win the World Series the whole sport is comical
Larry Walker was my favorite Rockies player for a long time. Happy he made it in. Glad it was probably ushered in by younger baseball writers. Didn't think he'd get in based on how older voting members trended.
Yes, let's just ignore the many cheaters already in the Hall. Anyone who stans for the HoF due to this falsehood of 'integrity' is a joke.
Oh yeah, I absolutely get it. But the unreasonable bias they showed seems a good enough reason for the dissenter to lose their vote.
If a player gets above 97% of the votes, the nays should have their voting rights suspended for a year because they obviously don't know baseball. Jeter should have been the seventh or eighth unanimous election and not potentially the second.
I once saw the opposite of the hall of fame for Jeter. I met him at San Diego Comic-Con, he was just walking the exhibit hall, checking it out. No one there knew who he was, it was pretty funny. But to be fair, it took me a minute to place him, as it was unexpected.
Bonds and Clemens only have two more years on the ballot before they move to the Era Committee voting. Neither of them really moved enough this year to suggest that they're going to get through by traditional voting.
Lol what? Who can sit and honestly think to themselves "yeah, Jeter doesn't belong in the HOF".
Getting hung up on the unanimity thing seems silly. The people who only voted for Jeter or wanted him to "go in alone" are way more worthy of scorn than a writer who decided to leave off a player who was at no risk of not making it. Tbh I'm surprised he only missed it by one.
How do you figure? Larry Walker had about 50% on the last ballot.
The point is there are more deserving players on the ballot. I don't think anyone was questioning that he isn't.