For better or for worse, there were no players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame this year. On Tuesday evening, with four hours of time scheduled to fill on MLB Network, there were no names called, no retrospectives to consider, and no praising speeches.
Not one eligible candidate hit the 75% mark of ballots, with derided former pitcher Curt Schilling getting the closest with just over 71%.
There’s been an awful lot of discussion lately regarding the Hall of Fame, its standard, its voters, and the ballots themselves (many of which I have shared in these posts over the past month or so), but I wanted to highlight two specific things today, in light of the news that there would be no new inductees this year.