Sometimes, you go with your gut.
Sometimes, that's all you have.
Take the case of the baseball Hall of Fame. From the moment I put ink to paper, I believed, accurately, that Fred McGriff would not get enough votes. But on ballot, McGriff is a Hall of Fame. It isn't just that I covered Fred, although that doesn't hurt. Daily, I saw what sort of professional that McGriff was. Daily, I saw him attack a fastball as if it had been mean to his child.
Yes, McGriff belongs.
So says my ballot.
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