Thoughts on Hall of Fame Voting

I'm not going to argue the relative merits of one candidate over another, that's been done to death of course. All I'm going to say is:

Vote some players into the Hall of Fame for crissakes. There were plenty of eligible players this year. All of them were famous for playing baseball, not something else. Vote some number of them in greater than 1. Probably 3 at least. Every Year. From now on for a while. I fail to believe that every year 3 players don't retire who deserve to go to the Hall of fame, and it's not like there isn't a backlog to boot. That's only 30 every decade. Are you going to tell me baseball doesn't produce 30 HOF worthy candidates every 10 years from the thousands of players who play. Don't tell me about how many were produced every decade back in the 30's either. Have you heard of advanced medical techniques saving and lengthening careers? Or that back in 1930 there were only 16 teams?

I realize this sentiment isn't exactly original, and there are all sorts of great, well thought out arguments about who deserves to get in and who doesn't, and who before who and the whole "first ballot" crap etc...But vote in more than 1 guy a year! Please!

The only good thing about this is that there is now just about no way that Dawson will get swept under the rug by the attention given to whoever else got elected. That's well deserved. And the only silver lining.