Hall of Fame vote strikes out again

We cringe every year the Baseball Hall of Fame vote is announced.
Not for who makes it, but who doesn't. Especially the close ones.
This year, Rich "Goose" Gossage was elected. It only took him nine tries to earn the 75 percent vote from the ten-year members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. That's pitiful.
“It was very emotional I’ll tell you, off the charts. I can’t describe the feeling,” Gossage told reporters after getting the call telling him he was in. “I can’t lie. There’s been some frustration and some disappointment.”
Former Red Sox hitter Jim Rice just missed getting in by 16 votes. Next year is his last year of eligibility on the BWAA ballots. It would be disgraceful if he doesn't make it.
But it's a story that's repeated every year. So many players who deserve to get in don't because of the Hall of Fame's overly stringent election requirements.
Here's the vote totals of players that got 50 percent or more of the vote and who aren't going in this year: Jim Rice 392 (72.2 percent), Andre Dawson 358 (65.9 percent) and Bert Blyleven 336 (61.9 percent).
All of those players would be proud additions to the Hall. But not one of them may make it.
The Hall of Fame needs to stop looking at itself as the overly elitist group it is now. Too many players that deserve to be there aren't. Being elite means nothing when so many good players aren't being honored.
But like the steroid issue, baseball will probably ignore it. It won't wake up to reality.
Meanwhile, too many players that accomplished great things on the field won't get the one thing that would crown their career because of an archaic situation.