It's MLB Hall Of Fame Ballot Time And We've Already Gotten Some Terrible Ones Coming In
My eyes roll out of the back of my head every time I see a new BBWAA writer's ballot come across twitter. It's ballot season and that means it's time for the baseball writers to prove to us how dumb they actually are. Take for example, Mr. Sadi Lebron from ESPN Deportes. Lebron already filled out his ballot and allowed it to be private and for his sake he probably should have kept his name off of it. At least he voted for the maximum allowed people with 10, you still have those clowns who only vote for 1 guy or just don't vote at all, Lebron at least gave us a full 10 votes. They just happen to be terrible votes.
He voted for Bobby Abreu, Roger Clemens, Todd Helton, Andruw Jones, David Ortiz, Andy Pettitte, Manny Ramirez, Scott Rolen, Curt Schilling, and Sammy Sosa. Some great players, really talented guys. Obviously the issue is the PED controversy that some of these guys may or may not have been involved in. Which is why I find it impossible to believe that someone could vote for Roger Clemens and NOT Barry Bonds. How can you vote for some of the alleged steroid users but not the best player of our generation who also falls under that category? That part makes 0 sense. Like why Roger Clemens and no Bonds? Why ANDY PETTITTE who admitted taking steroids and no Barry Bonds? Curt Schilling literally asked to be taken off the ballot and not to vote for him and this guy STILL gave him a vote. In what world do we live in where Bobby Abreu should have a Hall of Fame vote but Barry Bonds shouldn't? David Ortiz literally has a positive test, Manny Ramirez has a positive test. They get your vote but not Bonds? And how do you vote for Sammy but not Barry? Clown ballot.
Speaking of clown ballots, Steve Marcus! Steve here is the genius who hasn't voted for anyone in the past 2 seasons after only voting for Derek Jeter in 2020. This is a guy who is completely making the story about him. He wants these articles written about him, he wants his name in the papers. He wants to be known as "blank ballot guy". If he didn't want to make himself the story he wouldn't have made his ballot public. These are the moves that should have your ballot taken away from you. You should lose your voting privileges if you don't vote for anyone two years in a row. Every single day these guys remind us why they're the worst.