Who Do The Voters Think They Are?

Not only does the exclusion of Mark McGwire from the Hall of Fame seem wrong to me, there is more I do not understand about the voting practices of the baseball writers. The negative reaction to McGwire’s alleged steroid use has some grain of sense to it. But how in the world can a writer not include Tony Gwynn or Cal Ripken Jr. on their ballots. Neither was unanimously elected. No player ever has been. It is the height of smugness to withhold a vote from a first player eligible for election if they are without a doubt going to be elected. It does not preserve anything of value; it only shows that the writer thinks he is superior, maybe even a god!

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