The problem with Mariano Rivera having been the Baseball Hall of Fame's first unanimous selection a year ago is that he's set the new standard for encouraging homogenized voting.
Yeah, I voted for Rivera, too. He was an easy choice.
And I've voted for Derek Jeter toward the coming class, as well, as I'll detail below with the full release of my ballot.
But that doesn't stop me from finding a broader discussion increasingly distasteful, the one that treats vote count as meaningful toward a person's election. Because it isn't.