The voters for the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame failed big time. They were trying to send a message? The message received is that they cannot handle the task. If they wanted boycott the players with clouds over their heads that doesn't excuse their inability to vote a single player in.
One flaw is that the voting membership has grown too large. It is sometimes hard enough to get three out of four people to agree on where to go for dinner. It is much harder to get seventy five percent of hundreds of people to agree on the merits of a single player. The higher the membership total the higher the number required to vote a player in. But that really doesn't matter because that shouldn't be their mission any more.
The voting membership can vote the way they do and the top ten vote recipients would be put up to the vote of a committee. The committee should be required to allow two or three former players in a year at minimum. The players should be picked on their on field performance period. Big changes need to be made before this is repeated next year.
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