Kansas City Royals Hall of Fame voting is getting weird
What is going on with this year’s voting for the Royals Hall of Fame? The museum has enshrined 24 former Royals greats (or pretty goods), and every other year the team opens voting for new members to the fans. As with all online voting, the process is prone to strange results and possible rigging. And as we noted in 2011, the HOF’s standards for appearing on the ballot are woefully low.
The 2013 ballot is here, and the current vote tallies are pretty screwy. Bo Jackson, Royals legend, perhaps the only member of the team to ever be a nationwide cultural icon and subject of a recent ESPN documentary, is a distant second as of this morning. And Jimmy Gobble fans might be trying to stuff the ballot box.
