I don't care much about HOF and generally am turned off by the importance given it by the lobbying forces in any chosen sport. The players who "get in" have (especially nowadays) lived lives filled with praise -- receiving seasonal athletic recognition throughout their lives; batting awards, pitching awards, all-star honors, MVP awards, Coaches awards, athletic scholarships, number retirings, peer accolades, adult accolades (not to mention 7 or 8 figure remuneration). And finally, "immortality" in the Hall of Fame. Enough already.
I can respect the enterprising interests of a sport having a Hall of Fame -- the attention it garners with opportunities for merchandising and revenue-generation, but what it really boils down to is that the HOF is a museum. Hopefully, it's at least a good one.
Museums can be really good. Good museums (as I am sure baseball's Hall is) effectively tell the story of a valued aspect of culture. The Smithsonion museums tell a wide range of American cultural stories and do so not as a 'Hall of Fame', but as an archive of fame, infamy, and all relevant feature of historic interest. A good museum (my opinion) is as much about the blemishes as the shining moments. It is a place that isn't necessarily aimed at praising its product, but rather to explore and reveal the evolution of the product -- often sending the message that it takes visionaries, risk-takers, those who succeed and those who fail -- and also, to extents large and small, it requires contributions from the 'little guys'.
"Hall of Fame" is a lofty moniker that makes the "enshrined" sound more important than they are. They played baseball and they did it better than almost anyone -- yet each is still one of millions, just a solid contributor to a cultural pasttime. Pete Rose is part of baseball's story as were Joe Jackson, Mark McGuire, Curt Flood, Scott Hatteburg, Smokey Burgess, and Walter the Usher, who helped sneak me into the 6th game of the 1975 World Series.
The fact that some would be dismayed to see anyone receive the unattainable honor of "unanimous entry" is just (again, my opinion) an example of thinking this is just a little more important than it is.