Jim Rice fails again to make Hall of Fame

Jim Rice only was able to get 63.5 of the writers votes in the 2007 Hall of Fame Election. It is beginning to look like Jim will never make it to Cooperstown.

It is also obvious we will never see a unanimous choice for the Hall of Fame as Cal Ripken was left off 8 ballots getting 98.53% of the vote, the third highest in history after Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan.

Chicago columnist Paul Ladewski was one of two writers who left the ballot blank.

Ladewski wrote that his empty ballot wasn't an indictment of Gwynn or Ripken, but a reflection of his doubts about players from baseball's Steroid Era.

''At this point, I don't have nearly enough information to make a value judgment of this magnitude,'' Ladewski wrote. ''This isn't to suggest that Gwynn or Ripken or the majority of the other eligible candidates padded his statistics with performance-enhancers and cheated the game, their predecessors and the fans in the process.

''But tell me, except for the players themselves, who can say what they put into their bodies over the years with any degree of certainty?''

Mark McGwire can kiss Cooperstown goodbye as he only received 128 votes (23.5 percent)

Well Jim you will always be a Hall of Famer at this address