The announcement's over at the BBWAA site (which was recently updated from c. 1986-style to c. 1996-style-- bully!). 405 were needed for election. Blyleven got 400, Alomar 397. (They would have been one vote less short, had 5 writers not gone to the trouble of submitting blank ballots. Awesome!) Dropping off the ballot: Baines, Galarraga, Ventura, Burks, Karros, Appier, Hentgen, Segui, Jackson, Lankford, Reynolds, and Zeile. What I'm wondering is when the HOF-- a beautifully-designed little museum, with pretty terribly run entry protocols-- becomes the Academy Awards of baseball: something that's fun to look at, but not something any SERIOUS baseball scholar ever looks at as anything but an entertaining trifle? It already is...congrats Andre*