award winning journalists new york times bestsellers no topic out of bounds no opinions left unsaid an institution for sports talk and information this is the sports reporters here's mike lupica mitch alb and bob ryan

i'm mike lupeka m lbcom, and the New York Daily News.

I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.

And I am Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN, and we welcome you to the Thursday morning edition of the Sports Reporters podcast with you each Monday and Thursday.

And the topic du jour, the topic du la Cerm, is the fact that the baseball hall of fame

for one of the few times in its history,

not the only time,

rotors did not come up with

75% approval on any

individual. It will be a shutout

for the class of 2021.

There will be no class of 2021.

And this means that starting next time that the ballots are handed out, the clock will be ticking toward midnight for Mr. Barry Bonds, Mr. Roger Clemens,

and the increasingly controversial Kurt Schilling. The first two being we know why they're not in.

The second one, we can debate why he's not in.

But it is an interesting story.

Mitch, do you vote?

No.

Oh, you don't?

No, I stopped voting a while ago.

I do vote, Michael.

Okay.

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