Dan Shaughnessy Submits Infuriating Hall of Fame Ballot With Larry Walker in Crisis Mode

We're entering crunch time for this year's Baseball Hall of Fame balloting. With election results revealed on Tuesday, there's precious little time remaining for shenanigans.

While it seems like there's a fine chance Derek Jeter will join Core Four buddy Mariano Rivera in Club Unanimous, he'll also be the only modern era candidate enshrined in July unless things start breaking right for Larry Walker, who needed to gain 87 votes between first-timers and returning writers in order to earn election.

As of now, the projections make it seem as if he'll either make the Hall or miss it by a few stray votes in either direction -- and ballots like Boston writer Dan Shaughnessy's do absolutely nothing to help.

Thank you so much, Dan! Really and truly, thank you. As one of fewer than 500 voters honored with a chance to participate in this process, we really commend you for using the additional nine spots on your ballot not for giving an under-considered case an extra chance, nor for enshrining a superstar in Larry Walker in his final chance, but rather for making an argument nobody's listening to.

This ballot is the lowest of the low. For a Bostonian, even a Jeter-Schilling ballot would've made more sense contextually. This is somehow emptier than a Jeter-Omar Vizquel ballot, right? At least that has a clear ethos -- Jeter's the legend, and Vizquel makes up for his defensive shortcomings.

This helps no one. Certainly not Dan Shaughnessy.