ANALYSIS/OPINION
Our long national nightmare is over — Tim Raines was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
The former Montreal Expos outfielder had become the cause celebre of the geek squad in his final years of eligibility on the ballot — see Washington Post headline, “Tim Raines’ Hall of Fame enshrinement is a victory for stats geeks everywhere.”
So in his 10th and final season of ballot eligibility, Raines rode in on the victim wave, with 86 percent of the 442 ballots submitted checking the box with his name. I was not one of them.