It’s that time of year, folks! The Baseball Hall of Fame’s inductee reveals! It’s already been one year since we saw Larry Walker sport a Spongebob Square Pants shirt and we finally get to see which nominees from the 2021 class were nominated.


Or so we thought.


For the first time since 2013, there will be no players elected to have their names among the greatest to play the game within those sacred walls of Cooperstown.


Talk about a curveball, because that’s exactly what the Baseball Writers’ Association of America threw us on Tuesday evening.


You have to love baseball; always keeping things very unique and thrilling.


Within the 2021 class, not a single player received 75 percent of the vote needed to be enshrined within the HoF. The closest to come near the 75 percent mark was Curt Schilling who received 71.1, falling just 16 votes shy.


The next to come close were Barry Bonds and Roger Clemons, who received 61.9 percent and 61.6 percent, respectively.


It’s important to note a vote into the HoF measures a players performance both on and off the field, to which a few names on this year’s ballot face a deal of scrutiny for various events both during and after their playing careers.


The trio will be able to have their shot one more time in 2022, though Schilling has already noted he’d rather “defer to the veterans and committee and men whose opinions actually matter and who are in a position to actually judge a player.”


Ouch. That message seemed a bit salty but we’ll allow you to dive in on why Curt Schilling has opted out of next year’s ballots.


Bonds and Clemons on the other hand have both been accused of using performance-enhancing drugs, which then brings on the largely controversial​debate of whether or not PED’s actually saved baseball.


And the baseball world did not shy away in sharing who they believe should have been inducted within this year’s class. That someone being none other than Mr. Barry Bonds.