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Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Holy Writer wants to be defrocked!
"Jayson Stark, you’re my hero”
That meant eliminating, with a case of massive heartburn, the two guys I ranked 11th and 12th—Fred McGriff and Dale Murphy. And so, because I’d voted for them in the past, that meant abandoning a voting philosophy I believe in. That truly stunk. But it also meant penalizing two players I firmly believe were clean, in large part because the Hall of Fame has no idea how to handle the guys who weren’t. That stunk even more.
So this is more than just a column explaining my ballot. It’s a plea for the Hall of Fame to deal with this crisis, to figure out whether there’s a place for the stars of this era in the Hall and to stop asking voters like me to sign up for the morality police force and sort it all out for them.
I never volunteered for that job. And this year’s ballot was the most powerful reminder yet of how impossible that job really is.
Someone being given a task that he is not qualified for, and that person admitting that he is not qualified for that job?
Thank you Jayson Stark.
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