You sure are flirting with trolling for someone who shouldn't be. I'm done.
I am doing no such thing. In actual fact, I'm trying to be polite about the fact that you seem bothered by something that no baseball fan should be upset over. But, since you want to imply that I'm a troll, that politeness ends here.
We've had this debate all over the board many, many times. It absolutely grinds my gears that the fact that Jeter is one of the all-time greats is not good enough for (many, not all) Yankee fans. And that extends even to his HOF vote, where several on this board have implied (while feigning disinterest) that there are no good reasons to leave Jeter off the ballot, when we know that's not true.
We've seen circumstances many times before where voters leave a no-doubt HOF player off a ballot because they reason that the vote isn't needed, so they give it to a player they are trying to help get over 75% - or even to stay eligible. That (to me) is a perfectly legitimate vote. There are also voters who try to make a point out of picking (or leaving off) certain players. Depending on their reason, that may or may not be perfectly legitimate.
I suspect that the voter who left Jeter off was doing so because he/she wanted to ensure that he wasn't unanimous. Depending on the the rationalization, I'll agree that the voter in question is probably a tool. (Or, they may not be. As JA points out above, it's a defensible position.)
Having said that, I'll tell you what is annoying about the vote - people acting as if Jeter was
entitled to a unanimous vote. Perhaps if he were the unquestioned best position player ever, I'd agree with that. However, he's not close, by any metric you can come up with. And I never heard any gnashing of teeth when far superior players didn't get a unanimouis vote in the past. We all just accepted it and moved on with our lives.
I'll say again - I have no idea why Jeter's acknowledged greatness is not enough. But if you think you're going to get sympathy for acting like a tough guy and making a passive-aggressive accusation of trolling, you are sadly mistaken.