We learned three things from the Hall of Fame voting today. First, someone actually gave Darin Erstad a vote, which is perplexing. The second thing we learned is that it is perplexing to Darin Erstad himself.
https://twitter.com/Dstad17/status/552556495187894272
The third thing? Turns out Darin Erstad actually has a sense of humor, which is quite a surprise considering his demeanor during his playing days nary included a smile.
https://twitter.com/Dstad17/status/552556190136541186
Yes, Darin (assuming this is his actual Twitter account), punters are people too. But here’s the thing, punters don’t even get into the football Hall of Fame, so your college punting career and tremendous outlier 240-hit season in 2000 aside, it is hard to see how anyone actually thought you were worth a Hall of Fame vote. Mind you, Erstad is one of my favorite Angels ever, so I don’t intend that as a slam. He was a really good defender who was mostly an average, at best, offensive producer. That doesn’t really equate to being worth a Hall of Fame vote, so maybe our mystery voter had some other even more mysterious reason for putting Ersty on the ballot. We may never know.
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