This is exactly why Le Batard gave his vote to Deadspin. All of the backlash he's getting proves that many HOF voters (and many journalists in general) are sanctimonious hypocrites. It may have partially been a publicity stunt, but it also generated plenty of publicity for the HOF itself. Props to you, Dan. Infiltrate…

"I'm a rules guy, unless it's not against the rules, in which case I'm a generic moralist. Whatever I am, I'm not an attention seeker as these next 25 tweets will indicate"

The most telling quotes:

And for all the people claiming Dan made a mockery of the voting nobody mentioned that people were voting for Armando Benitez and Jacques Jones...

Dan LeBatard's Look-At-Me Acts, Ranked

And the thing that gets me is that if nobody knew the ballot was done by Deadspin, it looks like a legit ballot. There aren't crazy votes for people who surely don't deserve to be on there who cracked the 75% mark. If anything, the Deadspin voters got it mostly right. Which in this day of the internet and trolling,…

Ugh, they're so full of shit. The ballot as voted by readers didn't even have anything super controversial on it - it was a good ballot that was basically in line with the final results. Bunch of crybabies.

Because when the started calling it "America's Favorite Pastime", wind bags felt it must then stand up for more than it was ever about before. Such nonsensical rhetoric as "American Values", and "Fair Play"... because that's the true nature of sport (it's not... it's finding either an advantage for yourself, or…

"Sanctimonious"
"Attention-seeking troll"
"Un-serious journalist"
"Petulant"
"Not qualified"

An archaic, useless and often ridiculed old-boys club of an institution whose members are critical of another so much that it's become a point of derision and contempt, whilst that member is himself the most conservatively-minded and level-headed of the bunch. Congratulations, Dan Le Batard, you are sports…

Anonymous betrayal and ridicule is easy.

Listen, I’m a rules guy too. But technically there aren’t any rules against turning over your Hall of Fame vote to the fans. And quite frankly it made the whole voting process a lot more exciting. Look at all the attention the Hall of Fame is getting right now. If somewhere down the road they change the rules and…

Anybody who wrote what Mike Wilbon did after Sean Taylor was murdered should lose all right to call anybody else sanctimonious.

At least Heyman isn't publicizing his thoughts or making a show of being morally superior to other people.

Dan Le Batard, Finest Dootlin' Kind.

I agree that the win-or-go-home nature of the NFL playoffs minimizes the chances of the best team emerging as champion, and that that's not a good thing, but what is the alternative?

Think you're missing the point. I like playoffs, and I think there should be something more than the regular season. But how about keeping the playoffs smaller (and thus more tension-filled) and weighting them more heavily to the teams who had better records in the regular season. In baseball: division winners only,…

I think the EPL (or another domestic Euro league) title is only slightly trumped by a Champions League title because it encompasses all of Europe. If the Champions League was an actual LEAGUE and not a tournament, it would be just as important. On the flip side, the Premier League title is 100x more important than the…

Because the effect of luck and statistical noise on single elimination tournament games is minimized by many in favor of discussions on "clutchness" and "just-winningness" and grit and heart and a whole bunch of other bullshit.

Our country's fascination with playoffs is truly astonishing. In every other country, domestic sports leagues reward the champions of the regular season, while we further trivialize the large sample set (which is usually better for determining The Best, no?) of the regular season by adding layer upon layer of…