Alex Rodriguez will be elected to baseball's Hall of Fame.

The problem with an article like this is that you have to wait fifteen years to say "I told ya so":

"It must be the emptiest feeling in the world, knowing that the thing he wanted to accomplish the most - to be the greatest home run hitter ever - will be attainable. But that if he gets there, it won't mean a thing because it won't be acknowledged with an entry into the Hall of Fame. It will be like baseball purgatory. Good thing Rodriguez has his newfound love of the game to comfort him."

It's the emptiest feeling in the whole world. Making $27,500,000 per year and getting ready to hit his 600th HR. Playing baseball every night for a living.

I'm surprised ARod has the strength to get out of bed in the morning.


The rest of it is comparing ARod's steroid use to the Black Sox scandal.

Because Shoeless Joe Jackson is not in the HOF, Tim Smith concludes that ARod will not make the HOF.

Tim Smith is incorrect.


Check that -- I am almost 100% certain that Tim Smith is incorrect.

ARod's HOF credentials will be argued for the next decade-and-a-half.

By then, I predict many admitted steroid users will be voted into the HOF and all of them will have weaker stats than ARod.

But it's kind of nonsensical and arrogant for Tim Smith, of all people, to proclaim that ARod will be excluded from the HOF.

Tim Smith has figured it out already.

Tim Smith has polled all the writers who will be voting 15, 20 years from now.