Regardless of what Alex Rodriguez does the rest of his career — and so far he’s doing plenty on and off the field — he may never get elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame.
Regardless of the severity of punishment for Tom Brady, which NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will hand down at some point this week, he will waltz into the Pro Football Hall of Fame five years after his retirement.
In neither case will their Hall of Fame fates involve matters of image rehabilitation. Both are cheaters, that much is proven. Rodriguez was first convicted of PED use by his own admission in 2009, and then by a preponderance of evidence in the Biogenesis mess in 2013.