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It's your last chance to vote for this year's Deadspin Hall of Fame induction class. The full ballot can be found here. Polls stay open until 11:59 p.m. (EST). Vote, damnit!...

The polls are still open for the 2013 Deadspin Hall of Fame election. Click here to cast your ballot. You have until tomorrow at 11:59 p.m. (EST) to vote. Do it!...

You still have until Sunday at 11:59 p.m. (EST) to cast your ballot for this year's Deadspin Hall of Fame induction class. Your roster of nominees and past inductees is here. Vote or die....

Vote! You still have until Sunday at 11:59 p.m. (EST) to select this year's Deadspin Hall of Fame induction class. Past inductees are listed here. After the jump, just click on a 2013 nominee to cast your vote:...

Todd Jones Does Not Believe Todd Jones Belongs In The Hall Of Fame

Todd Jones, who had a lengthy and perfectly respectable career as a reliever, has some thought on his appearing on the Hall of Fame ballot:...

2013 Deadspin Hall Of Fame Nominee: "Go Fuck Yourself"

The Donald reached out to us last winter, thinking he was being gracious. Fuck him. Here's an illustration of Donald Trump with a dick for a nose....

2013 Deadspin Hall of Fame Nominee: Vodka Samm

Vodka Samm stumbled and slurred her way into our hearts back in September. She tried to jump on the field during a University of Iowa football game, was snagged by police before she could get there, had a .341 blood-alcohol content, and unashamedly boasted about it all on Twitter. Vodka Samm showed ...

2013 Deadspin Hall Of Fame Nominee: "Horrifying Diarrhea Sludge"

There may be a regional foodstuff somewhere in America that's worse than "Cincinnati chili." But we've yet to find it. More than a few Ohioans took umbrage with our take on their "abominable garbage-gravy." But what's important to keep in mind is that these are people who actually enjoy eating the ...

Deadspin Buys Hall Of Fame Vote, Will Turn It Over To Deadspin Readers

Recently, as you may recall, we announced our plan to subvert the annual elections for baseball's Hall of Fame by buying votes from voters. Our idea was to make a mockery and farce of the increasingly solemn and absurd election process, and to take some power from the duly appointed custodians of th...

2013 Deadspin Hall Of Fame Nominee: Drunk Papa John

Papa John likes his Louisville Cardinals. Papa John allegedly likes his whiskey. Papa John allegedly just can't drink a lot of it. Let us once again admire the sight of Papa John, shitfaced beyond belief....

Baseball's 2014 hall of fame ballot is out: There are about 15 players on it who deserve to be in Cooperstown. This is going to be another mess. [BBWAA]...

2013 Deadspin Hall Of Fame Nominee: Manti Te'o's Dead Girlfriend

Lennay Kekua was the heartbreaking story of the 2012 college football season. She was the young, beautiful girlfriend of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o, but she died that September. The way the narrative went, her death served as an inspiration for what would become a charmed season, both for Te'...

2013 Deadspin Hall Of Fame Nominee: Rocket Frog

This remarkable photograph of a frog's ascension into the heavens was captured during the September launch of NASA's LADEE-laden Minotaur V Rocket. We'd like to think that, instead of succumbing to fiery death and returning to Earth as fried grenouille a la NASA, Rocket Frog slipped the surly bonds...

2013 Deadspin Hall Of Fame Nominee: The Buttfumble

The Jets may have finally out-Jets'd themselves on Thanksgiving night last year, when Mark Sanchez ran headlong into Brandon Moore's backside, triggering a fumble that the Patriots' Steve Gregory returned for a touchdown. Sanchez was demoted this season and then got injured. Moore has since retired...

2013 Deadspin Hall Of Fame: Let's Have Your Nominees

Holy shit. Thanksgiving's, like, next week. That means it's time for you to do something constructive for a change by giving us your nominees for this year's Deadspin Hall of Fame induction class....

A list of things the Hall of Fame isn't, according to the internet: Arguing over what Cooperstown is even supposed to honor is a very close second to arguing who belongs there. [Baseball Prospectus]...

Are You A Hall Of Fame Voter? We'd Like To Buy Your Vote

It's Hall of Fame season and there's no joy in it, because instead of discussing what matters—Edgar Martinez's elegant swing, Tim Raines careening around third, Mike Mussina flicking a knuckle curve at the edge of the plate—baseball fans will be discussing the voters, who are mainly sour, nasty old ...

Jack Morris has the worst argument for why he should be in the hall of fame: Morris says he had a high ERA only because no coach ever told him he should have a lower one. [Murray Chass's blog]...

NFL's Ace Parker, The Hall Of Fame's Only Centenarian, Dies

This is the trouble with living too long. You die too late....

Vote Rock: Who are the best players not named Bonds, Clemens, or Rose not in the Hall of Fame? A poll of baseball writers decides. [FanGraphs]...