Baseball Writers=Jackasses

Now let me start by saying that this does not include all sports writers but a large majority of them. When the baseball hall of fame class of 2010 was announced only 1 guy will be inducted, Andre Dawson. I don't want to take anything away from Andre Dawson but if he was not a Hall of famer 5 years ago what makes him a Hall of famer today? Is it the simple fact that the writers felt we waited long enough, or did some believe nobody else deserved to be voted in. One huge, glaring mistake the voters made this year was Roberto Alomar not getting in. Alomar received 73.7 percent of the vote, you need 75 percent to get in. For those who don't remember let me remind you how great Alomar was, his career batting average .300, over 2700 hits, 210 home runs, 12 time All Star, 10 time gold glove winner and 2 time world champion. Alomar is one of the top 5 second basemen of all time yet the writers didn't think so. Some of these writers have the dumbest reasons for keeping guys out of the hall, stuff like because the guy was a jerk. If Alomar was a jerk is that really a good reason not to vote for him, no. The infamous spitting incident though despicable in every way a career should not be defined by one mistake which he later apologized for. Also it was said that 5 ballots were turned in completely blank, whoever those writers were their voting privileges should be taken away, if they don't want to take this process seriously then they don't get to do it anymore. We leave the fate of some of baseballs greats by a bunch of nerds who have probably never played a sport in their life but they can determine who a hall of famer is, yea that works. Bottom line is until they find a new way to do this we will continue to have legends like Alomar left out because of some stuck up sports writer who has his own agenda, like i said in the title jackasses.