Blakeon18
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At 6:00 tonight the HOF votes come in for this year's class in baseball.
Never has anyone gotten 100% of the votes.
Interesting situation ...contradictory?
Bill Ballou of Worcester thinks closers are overvalued...and while Mariano deserves to get in, he will refuse to vote for him on the first ballot due to his take on relievers.
But: he apparently does not want to hurt Rivera's chances of getting 100% of the votes...so he won't turn in his ballot.
A non-returned ballot does not count against Mariano...so if all the other ballots name him, he will be the first ever to get on a unanimous vote.
So...to promote his opinion on relievers being overvalued he opts to engage in behavior that makes it MORE likely that a reliever forevermore will be the first to get at 100%. You would think that situation would mortify him...???
BTW: a blank ballot would obviously count against Mariano's entrance this time round.
Never has anyone gotten 100% of the votes.
Interesting situation ...contradictory?
Bill Ballou of Worcester thinks closers are overvalued...and while Mariano deserves to get in, he will refuse to vote for him on the first ballot due to his take on relievers.
But: he apparently does not want to hurt Rivera's chances of getting 100% of the votes...so he won't turn in his ballot.
A non-returned ballot does not count against Mariano...so if all the other ballots name him, he will be the first ever to get on a unanimous vote.
So...to promote his opinion on relievers being overvalued he opts to engage in behavior that makes it MORE likely that a reliever forevermore will be the first to get at 100%. You would think that situation would mortify him...???
BTW: a blank ballot would obviously count against Mariano's entrance this time round.