# 2014 MLB Hall of Fame Ballot **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 26, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-mlb-hall-of-fame-ballot/674859 "2013-11-26T21:04:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-mlb-hall-of-fame-ballot/674859/381 "2014-01-10T16:49:03Z")
That may have happened. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-mlb-hall-of-fame-ballot/674859/382 "2014-01-10T18:09:36Z")
[About a quarter of the writers have made their votes public so far.](http://bbwaa.com/14-hof-ballots/) We don’t know who voted for Benitez and Jones. I see one guy (Larry Rocca) voted for Morris, Nomo, Raines, and Trammell. He says he voted against Glavine and Maddux because he doesn’t know that they were clean and they did not use their clout to get the MLBPA to take a harder line on PEDs. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-mlb-hall-of-fame-ballot/674859/383 "2014-01-10T19:28:36Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > In addition to what others have said, isn’t the exclusion of Morris proof this just isn’t true? All Morris had going for him was Narrative (in fact, I think I heard he had the most Narrative of any player in the 80s…). I doubt Morris would’ve been anywhere clost to being elected without the Narrative. > [@Bellhorn](#): > > Note, however, that the BBWAA did a much better job of voting then this board’s voting in the hall. Remember this next time someone mentions how smart this board is. We’re dumber that the BBWAA for chrissakes. ---
**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-mlb-hall-of-fame-ballot/674859/384 "2014-01-10T19:46:36Z")
[QUOTE=Yookeroo;17002790… Remember this next time someone mentions how smart this board is. We’re dumber that the BBWAA for chrissakes.[/QUOTE] I wonder what the SD handles are for Murray Chass and Ken Gurnick? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-mlb-hall-of-fame-ballot/674859/385 "2014-01-10T23:08:33Z")
I have some guesses. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-mlb-hall-of-fame-ballot/674859/386 "2014-01-10T23:55:54Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I have some guesses. I can’t explain why, but this is the first SDMB message board I wish I could “like” Facebook-style. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-mlb-hall-of-fame-ballot/674859/387 "2014-01-11T03:07:18Z")
Sorry, out of town on vacation this week so I haven’t been able to participate in this as I’d like. Re: Glavine - he has been a “future Hall of Famer” in how he’s discussed since what, about 1997? My baseball coming of age, as it were, coincides with the Braves rotation dynasty, and Glavine/Smoltz/Maddux has always been a thing unto itself. Schilling was always respected as well, of course, but his best years were always in someone else’s shadow, and his HoF conversation started about 10 years after the Atlanta guys (after 07 gave him 3 WS, really). Again, I’d put all of them in once it’s all said and done. (Incidentally, baseball-reference has an excellent mobile site, if anyone is wondering.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-mlb-hall-of-fame-ballot/674859.md?page=19)