Oh, there will be suspense.
David Ortiz may get the call of a lifetime from the Cooperstown, N.Y., area code Tuesday afternoon. There’s also a reasonable chance that he will not.
He has done well on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballots that have been revealed; as of Monday morning, he had received 83.7 percent of the vote on the 168 public ballots tracked by Ryan Thibodaux on his @NotMrTibbs twitter account. Seventy-five percent is required for election.
But Thibodaux’s tally accounts for only 45.4 percent of the voters, and the unrevealed ballots often tend to tilt conservative, quirky, or downright inexplicable.