"Gentlemen, start your search engines.

At 3 p.m. on Monday, the president of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Jeff Idelson, will announce via MLB Network the results of the 2012 Hall voting. The induction ceremony for any new members will be held July 20-22 in Cooperstown, N.Y.

The results, no matter what, will lead to controversy, but will pale in comparison to the firestorm next year when the first of the Steroid Era candidates become eligible.

Up until this point, the Hall has remained relatively free of harmful controversy beyond the obvious differences of opinion, mostly with regard to who is left out. In fact, since it opened its doors in 1936, the biggest issues of exclusion have swirled around Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson, each tainted by the stain of gambling. Next year it gets ugly."