 So the BBWA this morning released 314 Hall of Fame ballots that 79.1% of the writers who opted to make their ballots public That includes 91 previously unrevealed ballots So that means 21% Chose not to have their ballots made public Ken Rosenthal of the athletic points out Jeter was listed on all the public ballots the person who did not vote for him remains anonymous BBWA voted in December 2016 for all ballots to be made public Hall of Fame overruled the request So here's my final take on this thing The person who didn't vote for Derek Jeter Who doesn't make his or her ballot public is a gutless puke You're right. It's I mean really I I don't have a problem if you didn't vote for Jeter I have a problem that you will not defend the fact that you didn't vote for Jeter. You are a gutless puke So you did something because you wanted to take the honor of being the second unanimous player away from a guy There's no way you could look at Derek Jeter's career. Let's say you don't think he's the greatest shortstop of all time Okay, you can make that argument. You can't make the argument. He's not a Hall of Famer Only five five people in the history of the game have had more hits than him Look at his postseason numbers He has a 314 batting average in the world series and a 309 overall or 310 overall So he'd better in the world series So again, you hide behind anonymity because you're a gutless puke and people can sell That's Yankee boy defending Jeter. No, no if it was about Larry Walker if you vote First of all, the media shouldn't even be voting for this because the media covers news They should not be making news. So once you take a Hall of Fame vote, you're making news That's the only reason you should have that vote is to explain it since you're making the news Anyway, explain why you're making the news and for the person to hide behind anonymity because they're afraid or they're scared Yeah, in this world you should be because there are a lot of lunatics out there, but again, you refuse to make your ballot public well Isn't journalism The actual job that you have about transparency and holding those Empower to account and nobody can hold you to account for holding back a vote on a Hall of Fame player Gutless puke. I don't know other way to put it I think you'll agree with this Michael and Peter will as well You don't know me that if you get into the media to cover something to do a talk show to have a column And you've been around long enough that you can get a vote for the Hall of Fame You're an opinionated SOB. I never met anyone in this business that wasn't otherwise. They're worthless If you're gonna have opinion then you're also gonna have the passion to debate that opinion. Otherwise your opinions worthless You want to fight that opinion, right? You know me I have an opinion and I'll sit there and argue about it and Peter will outline that and I'll just keep talking and repeating myself Everybody hates me, but the point is is that if you have value And you believe in your opinion there is an obligation to debate that opinion an obligation to do it Otherwise your opinion means nothing. It sounds like you guys would be very in favor of the Iowa caucuses That's what they do. They have to argue their candidate. They don't just write down the vote No, no, no, I stand in a room and they go here. This is what my choice is They argue it. We don't get into politics on the show, but if any third-world nation Had votes like we have an Iowa. We'd laugh at them. It's no we would absolutely laugh at them So that's that's one point we'll put away, but if you make a vote This isn't for the president you are choosing to be part of a process where you are making news and The guy who didn't vote for Jeter made the guy or gal made the biggest news But then is that I can't say this enough is so much of a gutless puke that he or she refuses to defend the vote I don't get it. Here's the analogy that I would use. I don't think if you're somebody that votes For the president and you're just living the general public that you have any obligation to tell people who you voted for Unless you wanted to but if you're the New York Times and you back a candidate you better tell me why you're doing exactly So if you're in the media if you're covering a team and you have an opinion That is as big and controversial as I don't believe Derek Jeter's a Hall of Famer Then you are a gutless puke if you're not going to come forward and debate that with me Then you shouldn't have a vote and there's no reason why that the baseball writers Association or the Hall of Fame Should be able to protect these people and when they did this when the baseball writers Association voted I mean almost unanimously to make their votes public for the most part. They were all on board about making their votes public There are about 12 people that went to Jane Forbes Clark who runs all the famous and now we know why the public week Yeah, I mean it might influence our decisions So the she's spitting the face of the overwhelming majority and Decided to keep them private and here's my point about the Hall of Fame and also about the the fact that they don't let Pete Rose be voted on if The writers feel that this is unfair what the writers should do, but they wouldn't do it because oh my Goodness, dude. They love that Hall of Fame vote. They should renounce their votes We're not voting anymore for this unless you do it the way we want and we are providing you The means to vote these people into the hall which gets you all that publicity Which gets you those big crowds on induction day if you don't listen to what we say we're not voting anymore I bet you she might change And Michael if a voter works for a newspaper that I find out that that reporter working for me Wants to keep His or her vote private because of public backlash That they don't have the guts to stand by their vote. I'd fire them based on this So that means that every time you have an opinion You're allowing that opinion to be influenced about how the public feels about it Not how you feel about it because I'm sure if you're covering a sport Michael If you're covering baseball there must have been columns about how this person deserves to be fired or this person deserves to be traded Or this player deserves to be benched So if you have an opinion and you're telling me that I I don't want my my jeter Non-vote to go public because I'm afraid of the backlash Then you tell then you're saying that your opinion is influenced by your readers And I will tell you this too that same person that didn't vote for dairy jeter and refused to make his or her ballot public They're gonna ask Luis Rojas sometime in May. Why didn't you bunt? The runner over to second base in the ninth inning. What if Luis Rojas said no, I'm good. I don't want to tell you Because that's exactly that that person that will not make their ballot public and actually debate the vote or the non-vote They have no right to ask any question to anybody because they don't deserve an answer like we're not getting an answer on this I'd like an answer on why that person didn't vote for Derek Jeter and remember you are a gutless puke and Not for punishment Peter. I want to openly debate it now I doubt it very seriously matter of fact I would almost guarantee that they would not sway my opinion But at least with the public debate I'd be able to hear what he or she had to say Maybe it is because of what's happened in Miami with the Marlins now I wouldn't agree for not voting him, but I would doubt at least be a reason I could wrap my mind around that Do you guys