Close the Hall of Fame & Start Over!

Before I go into this I have to issue a huge disclaimer: The entry you are about to read has swearing in it so please read it with this disclaimer in mind. So here we go!
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Here’s a complete list of the voters who voted against San Diego Padres pitcher Trevor Hoffman as well as Seattle Mariners Designated Hitter Edgar Martinez and their location last year. Note that the location might be slightly off for some, but this was based on what I could find publicly through Wikipedia, Twitter, and through recently published work:

BBWAA Member	Location
Jeff Fletcher	Anaheim
Mark Bradley	Atlanta
Peter Abraham	Boston
Bill Ballou	Boston
David Borges	Boston
Paul Doyle	Boston
Alan Greenwood	Boston
Scott Lauber	Boston
Art Martone	Boston
Tony Massarotti	Boston
Joe McDonald	Boston
Brendan Roberts	Boston
Bob Ryan	Boston
Dan Shaughnessy	Boston
Michael Silverman	Boston
John Tomase	Boston
Mike Harrington	Buffalo
Ryan Fagan	Charlotte
Bernie Lincicome	Chicago
Carrie Muskat	Chicago
Mike Nadel	Chicago
Phil Rogers	Chicago
Gordon Wittenmyer	Chicago
Paul Daugherty	Cincinnati
Scott Priestle	Cincinnati
C. Trent Rosecrans	Cincinnati
Bill Livingston	Cleveland
Tim Cowlishaw	Dallas
Lynn Henning	Detroit
Tom Keegan	Kansas City
Sam Mellinger	Kansas City
Jeff Passan	Kansas City
Rick Plumlee	Kansas City
Joe Posnanski	Kansas City
Juan Vené	Miami
Steve Wine	Miami
Peter Botte	New York
Larry Brooks	New York
Pete Caldera	New York
Murray Chass	New York
Ken Davidoff	New York
Mark Feinsand	New York
Mark Hale	New York
Anthony McCarron	New York
Eric Nunez	New York
Steve Popper	New York
Mike Puma	New York
Mike Shalin	New York
Joel Sherman	New York
Mike Vaccaro	New York
George Willis	New York
Pat Caputo	Oakland
Josh Dubow	Oakland
Alan Robinson	Pittsburgh
Bob Smizik	Pittsburgh
Andrew Baggarly	San Francisco
Mark Purdy	San Francisco
Jim Caple	Seattle
Willie Smith	South Carolina
Mark Saxon	St. Louis
Mike Berardino	St. Paul
Phil Miller	St. Paul
John Romano	Tampa
Jeff Blair	Toronto
Rob Gillies	Toronto
Dave Perkins	Toronto
Peter Barzilai	Washington D.C.

Notice any trends? Amazingly, there were 14 ballots from the Boston area – more on this later – alone that omitted Trevor Hoffman & Edgar Martinez. Another 15 New York ballots omitted Hoffman & Edgar. Only 6 West Coast ballots omitted the two.
This is not insignificant. In fact, using an Exact Test  – a statistical method to determine the “rarity” of a contingency table in a random sampling – we see that the revealed Boston vote is very statistically significant, with a two-tailed P value of .0041. If you aren’t familiar with what the P value means:

If there really is no association between the variable defining the rows and the variable defining the columns in the overall population, what is the chance that random sampling would result in an association as strong (or stronger) as observed in this experiment?

In other words, the Boston/Not Boston contingency table is very unlikely if the null hypothesis, that Boston voters are not different from non-Boston voters, is true:

And while New York had 15 no votes, they also had 30 yes votes: a statistically insignificant P value of 0.3682. California, meanwhile, was somewhat biased in Hoffman’s favor, but not enough (P = 0.0966) to definitively conclude anything:

Outside of statistically biased Boston, Hoffman got the required 75.6% of votes needed for induction. In fact, if just 65% of the known Boston ballots voted in Hoffman’s favor, he would have been inducted.
But that’s not even what makes the vote an East Coast sham.
What I really want to talk about is how the F**K Boston, with one baseball team, has roughly 10% of the entire electorate? As you can see, a whopping 26 (10.7%) of all revealed ballots originated from Boston Red Sox territory. There were dudes with votes from obscure newspapers scattered all across New England. Writers from newspapers in Framingham (20 miles away from Boston), Worcester (about 50 miles), and Hartford (keep going)… and then some nimrod that covers UConn basketball in New Haven, ESPN.com’s Boston Bruins hockey analyst, two 1st time voters in the Boston area, and SIX people each from the Boston Globe and Boston Herald.
That’s 26 from just the known votes for one baseball team spanning a population center of roughly 14 million people. And yet Southern California, home to three baseball teams and a population of over 22 million, has just 9 of the 242 known ballots. Proportionally, the Southern California teams receive just 1/9th the representation as the Boston Red Sox.
If writers in Framingham or Hartford and hockey writers get a vote, where’s San Bernardino’s Dodgers representative? Does Bakersfield have a voter?
What ticks me off the most, though, isn’t that Hoffman & Edgar didn’t get inducted last year, since there’s a really high probability that happens in 2018. It’s that we all know that as soon David Ortiz hits the ballot, Bob Ryan and the rest of the Boston mafia will instantly forget the Wins Above Replacement arguments they’ve made against Hoffman & Edgar. Instead, they’ll say their overweight, steroid using Designated Hitter deserves to enter the Hall despite trailing many fellow stars they left off their ballots in WAR: Gary Sheffield (by 12 wins), Edgar Martinez (by 15!), Larry Walker (by 18), and Barry Bonds (by 2.3 David Ortiz careers).
What else would you expect from the B(oston)BWAA?