Baseball HOF Results

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I have to wonder what the mentality of some of the voters is for voting for anyone who's not in the top 5-10. Surely the guy who voted for Walk Weiss does not believe that he belongs in the HOF...so what's the motivation for voting for guys like him?

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In the Keith Olbermann/Dan Patrick ESPN book (can't remember the name), Olbermann tells a story about how HOF voters often will vote for a lower-tier guy just as a pat on the back kind of thing. "Hey, I voted for you, pal."

But one year, Olbermann says, a lot of the voters had the same idea -- and picked the same guy. So he got in. I'll try to find the story on the Web, but I don't think it was any time recently.

But anyway, I think some voters throw a bone to the guys they know won't get in as a nice gesture. Which is ridiculous.