Buhner Dot Com Est. 2000, which is like 1947 in Internet years.

The 2012 Baseball Hall of Fame Vote: The Aftermath

So yesterday Barry Larkin got elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame partly because he was probably the best shortstop in the National League during the 90s and partly because baseball writers have a hard time saying anything bad about him. Larkin  didn't do anything that would question his character, had stats that were good enough to be impressive, were consistent through his career, but weren't so good that he'd be suspected of using steroids. He got awards, played a skill position, and played for the same team all of his career. The fact that it took him this long to get in with that resume is surprising.

But as you might have heard, that's not the big story to come out of this vote. It's the BBWAA v. bloggers debate that we thought died down recently as more paper journalists started to use the online medium. BBWAA members have made public their votes and have faced criticism for them, and in a happy non-Internet world we'd have a few carefully worded letters written in to newspapers, some of which might be reprinted in a later article with carefully worded replies, all put together by an editor, making everyone feel all warm and tingly inside.