How do we fix this shit?

Reformat it so that there are exactly 200 spots in the Baseball Hall of Fame, and ONLY 200.

Each year, you can vote in whoever you like, but you've got to vote someone else out to do it.

>>74017350
real life isn't a message board, you dip.

>>74017360
Fuck off

>>74017350
This

>>74017299
Its gonna be fucking miserable when millenials start voting everyone in

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>>74017299
Stop blackballing players for expressing right-wing political beliefs.

>>74017538
He doesn't even deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.

>>74017546
lemme guess: born in 1998 or later

>>74017564
Nope.

Craig Biggio is in the Hall of Fame and Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens aren't, there's no fixing it

>>74017299
.302 28 90 bare min for discussion has to be lifetime avg

Group the players into 3 different eras: 19th century, deadball, and live ball.

For the 19th century, the top 5 players at each position get in, as well as 10 pitchers.

For the deadball (1901-1919) and liveball era (1920-present), the top 10 players at each position, as well as top 25 SPs and 5 RPs (10 pitchers, period for the deadball era), are in.

That gives you 50 old-timers, 50 deadballers, and 110 live-ball players, for 210 default spots. This is the starting point. The ceiling should be somewhere between 250-280 players overall.

>>74017350
>upvotes/downvotes

I WANT REDDIT TO LEAVE

>>74017693
i lol'd

It's fixing itself as the old corpses, that think they're entitled to be moral arbiters, are dying out.

>>74017360
This
>>74017350
>>74017394
Definitely not these.

>>74017604
Maybe they shouldn't have egregiously broken the rules.

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>>74017546

The sport is built entirely around gimmick ass super advanced equations at this point.
Create one that makes a threshold window of HoF-worthy. Those that exceed it are in, those that fall in the window let the old crotchety writers decide on so they still have a reason to get out of bed.

>draft dodgers shitting on people deemed physically unfit for war
>sure you're in

>guys shitting on high school competition because no blacks allowed and they had to fill rosters
>sure you're in

>black guys shitting on awful white guys because a couple are finally allowed in
>sure you're in

>everyone taking speed
>sure you're in

>everyone taking roids
>NO. NOBODY GETS IN (unless you were nice to the media or admitted using)

>>74018289
>be all time hits leader
>bet on yourself to win

>NOPE AND WE'LL FUCK YOU OVER UNTIL YOU DIE

Each voter still gets 10 votes, but you can allocate more than one vote to a single person. A player would need 7.5% of total votes to get in, which is equivalent of the current percentage of total votes they need.

>>74018289
don't forget, except for Raines just this year they blackballed all the coke guys from the 80s as well (Gooden, Parker, etc.)

>>74018195
what rules did they break?

>>74017299

Take Cooperstown away from the BBWA and give it to MLB. Baseball's HOF is the only one not own and operated by it sport. The NFL controls Canton, NBA controls Springfield, but sportswriters control Cooperstown.

>>74018317

What people fail to realize is that Rose's records and Bonds' records are in the HOF. You can see the bats, balls, unis, game memorabilia, etc. associated with those records along with their names.

While their records are in the HOF, Rose and Bonds aren't in the HOF as MEN because they're shitty human beings - and, yes, there are other shitty human beings in the HOF.

Rose especially is an asshole. He repeatedly lied to all of us and threw Bart Giamotti's corpse under the bus for nearly 20 years only to admit to everything when he thought it would get him in.

I'd put Rose in the HOF the day after he dies. He gets in, he just doesn't get to enjoy it. Ditto Bonds, Clemens, etc. Put them in after they die. That way we award the achievement and not the man.

there is literally nothing wrong with it