Those of you who are baseball fans (in other words, those of you who are psychologically normal) know that only two players—Cal Ripken Jr and Tony Gwynn—were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame yesterday. Here is the New York Times story. Ripken received 98.5% of the votes cast, while Gwynn received 97.6%. (What I want to know is, who didn’t vote for them?) I made my picks a month and a half ago. See here. I’m happy with the election of Ripken and Gwynn, but disappointed that Lee Smith, Jack Morris, and Mark McGwire weren’t elected. Smith received 39.8% of the votes cast, Morris 37.1%, and McGwire 23.5%. Pete Rose wasn’t on the ballot. Until he’s in the Hall of Fame, the place will be a joke. McGwire’s statistics are arguably insufficient. He had only 1,626 hits, after all, which is an anemic 101 hits per season. But Rose? Come on. Nobody played the game better, not even Ripken or Gwynn.