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Posted By: Kevin Cummings

Hal:

So what if in some years you have "a ton" of qualified candidates? If they are all good enough to get in, they all get in.

Isn't the "message sending" to which you refer exactly what is wrong with the Hall of Fame? Isn't that message really "You weren't good enough to get in with the truly deserving players?" So why should they get in at all?

I think many people wouldn't like the "One Shot" rule because there might be long stretches where nobody gets in and they couldn't have a baseball game and a party ever summer for the new inductees. But that's what would balance out the years where "a ton" of players did make it.

Kevin