Someone is totally not getting a gift basket.
Post Staff:
Derek Jeter fell one vote shy of becoming an unanimous Hall of Famer on Tuesday night, drawing outrage from many on social media. ...
Jeter officially received 99.7 percent of the vote [396 of 397 votes].
Ken Davidoff, Post:
Well, how about that? For once in his charmed baseball life, things didn't go absolutely perfectly for Derek Jeter. [JoS: Things did not go so great for him in 2004, to mention one example that springs to mind. He was also booed at Yankee Stadium during an 0-for-32 skid. And he was known as Mr. 27 for a while around these parts because, for a few weeks, he made the game's final out (instead of driving in the game-tying or winning run(s)) numerous times.]
Although, if any true justice existed in this universe ... Jeter would be a unanimous Baseball Hall of Famer right now. ...
Three hundred ninety-seven BBWAA members voted on this year's class. Three-hundred ninety-six, including all 13 voters from The Post, checked Jeter's name. ...
So who is Voter 397? For now, he or she remains private, under no obligation to disclose. The Hall wants the writers to make their choices without fear of public scrutiny and some members take that road. And look, should this person declare, there will be some uncivil discourse, and that won't be right. The low stakes don't merit such fury. ...
Consider that an astonishing 23 voters out of 432 turned down Willie Mays in 1979, his first year of eligibility. Then nine (out of 415) didn't support Hank Aaron in 1982. Fast-forward to 2016, when Ken Griffey Jr. established a new benchmark by tallying 437 out of 440. ...
It's not that Jeter deserved the unanimous support because of what he meant to the game or any such syrupy pablum; his life will go on just fine. It's that logic deserved a unanimous Jeter vote.
Mark Hale, Post:
In the sports version of "who's the identity of this mystery person," you can call Derek Jeter's Hall of Fame dissenter. . . Deep Vote.Sarah Valenzuela, Daily News:
But unlike the eventual emergence of the famed Watergate mystery figure, the fascinating question of "who didn't vote for Derek Jeter for the Hall of Fame" might be one for which we never learn the answer.
Voters for the Baseball Writers' Association of America are not required to publicly reveal their ballots for the Hall of Fame. ...
Jeter's dissenter remains unknown and will only be revealed if the voter himself/herself confesses — or is outed by someone who knows the truth.
After it was announced the legendary Yankee captain received 396 of 397 votes, every Yankee fan in the universe screamed in ... fury.
Bill Madden, Daily News:
Where have you gone, Derek Jeter? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.Oh, was it really Paul Simon, Bill? And DiMaggio? Huh. I didn't know that.
Originally, it was Joe DiMaggio for whom Paul Simon wrote those lyrics ...
What a disappointing way to begin a column for which you had years to prepare, with the most hackneyed, yawn-inducing, cliche. Jesus, even Jeter didn't suck that bad leading off.
Madden then regurgitates all the bullshit (or "the syrupy pablum" mentioned above by Davidoff) to which we were subject throughout (and too long after) Capt. Intangibles's career (we know the truth). Likewise, DiMaggio was a moody, greedy, selfish, cheap, controlling, friend of the Mafia, as detailed in Richard Ben Cramer's Joe DiMaggio, The Hero's Life.
Fun Fact: Mike Trout has already collected more WAR in 9 seasons than Derek Jeter did in 20 seasons!
Amazing, somehow Jeter looked like he had a shot to scoop up the unanimous vote but then it was just out of his reach— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) January 22, 2020
4 comments:
These players received 1 HoF vote:
Adam Dunn
Brad Penny
Raúl Ibañez
J.J. Putz
Penny: 4.29 career ERA, 99 ERA+. Someone thought that deserved to be in the HoF.
Dunn: .237 batting average (I know, but still ...)
Pete Abraham on some of Jete's "intangibles" in the Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/redsox/2020/01/21/new-hall-famer-derek-jeter-was-always-right-spot/6IIJhCZCgwT26SzrCjuC3N/story.html
I can never make up my mind whether I like Abraham or not.
So if a Red Sox player had Jeter's numbers you wouldn't put him in the HoF? Puh-leaze.
So if a Red Sox player had Jeter's numbers you wouldn't put him in the HoF?
That's clearly not the point of this entire Schadenfreude Series. I've thoroughly enjoyed watching the Yankees getting screwed over by shitty umpiring - and I'm decidedly not a fan of shitty umpiring.
What I would have liked to see is Rivera being left off about 10 ballots, so all the MFY fans could really work themselves up that CI was ONE VOTE away from being the first unanimous player. He was getting in on the first ballot, obviously, but now it's ... Yep, he's in.
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