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Vote for who you want, but Hall of Fame voting should be intellectually honest

Every year around this time, MLB Hall of Fame ballots come trickling through the Tweetdeck timeline, one BBWAA writer at a time.

Some make you shake your head. Others, you find yourself nodding up and down. Others make your brain hurt and, once in a while, a ballot will actually make you slap your head with your hands and whimper.

This is the most controversial Hall of Fame ballot of all-time. Between players linked with the performance enhancing drug era, players with checkered-to-downright awful off-field exploits, and those whose cases are somewhat on the fence, the number of possible ballot permutations are through the roof.