Hall of Fame Nominations

[David]

The thinking seems to be, among some fans & members of the voting panel, that if you've done your time (25 years), you get inducted. Won't virtually all recognizable names sooner or later be inducted? Outside of marketing & brouhaha & a TV show you can broadcast every year, I just don't see what the actual purpose is to this hall of fame. Traditionally, halls of fame are reserved for the cream of the crop, the best of the best, whether it's baseball or music or fiction-writing. You can always argue about the choices; there's no last word. But if you look at the inductees from 1986 to 2000, just about every act with a name is there. The same thing is liable to be true for the 1970s & the 1980s when enough time has passed.