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Keith Olbermann Rants, Brilliantly, on Baseball Hall of Fame Voting

By Kyle Scott

Published: Dec 9th, 2014 · 11:08 AM EST

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http://youtu.be/TpLCCSKoo04

This is great. But my one eye-roll sweet spot when it comes to hall of fames (halls of fame?) is that they are largely meaningless places or concepts formed to honor and enshrine greatness so all can see it. That’s fine. But it’s a byproduct of yesteryear, a day and time where the masses didn’t have access to archival footage, MLB.tv, SportsCenter, etc. Being sanctimonious about something that is almost by definition subjective rings hollow. The concept of a panel of experts getting to decide who we should consider great is an antiquated one. Now that determination can be made by the whole. I’d argue that YouTube is a better hall of fame for greatness than a building in Upstate New York or Canton, Ohio. Still, that doesn’t take away from the excellent points Olbermann made about the voting process, which is pretty F’d up.