The Hall Is Ready: Setting the stage for Hall of Fame Induction Weekend

Hey, guess what?

IT'S HALL OF FAME INDUCTION WEEKEND.

Hundreds, if not billions of fans have already begun descending onto central New York to see Craig Biggio, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz officially inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday. The next three days will be a non-stop celebration of four careers that simply boggle the mind.

After all, there's much to celebrate: The foursome collectively boasts 33 (!) All-Star elections and a grand total of 4,667 games played in MLB. Craig Biggio had 3,060 hits! The trio of pitchers combined for nine Cy Young Awards and 11,113 strikeouts! That, friends, is a lot of batters headed back to the dugout disappointed.

But while the speeches are still a couple of days away, Cooperstown is very much in the throes of HOF weekend. Let us set the stage …

The banners are hung on the Museum with care knowing new Hall of Famers soon would be there. #HOFWKND pic.twitter.com/YHEYjdxe3w

- Baseball Hall (@BaseballHall) July 23, 2015

Get it -- because it's Christmas in July? Anyway, the Hall is ready:

Soon, the stage will be too:

Induction Stage is going up in Coop. In 96 hours, the tent will be filled w #HOFers. #HOFWKND http://t.co/dqkxUfiVCI pic.twitter.com/buicaWgC55

- Baseball Hall (@BaseballHall) July 23, 2015

The HOFers are gathering:

Arrived at my home for the next 5 days#HOF hotel for #hofwknd in #Cooperstown.Think I just saw Babe Ruth at the bar.This is getting better by the minute stay tuned.#mlb @baseballhall @dbacks #MontreatExpos #seattlemariners #Astros #Yankees #sfgiants #HumbledAndHonored #HOF15

A photo posted by Randy Johnson (@rj51photos) on Jul 22, 2015 at 7:59pm PDT

Kelsey Grammer is there looking for Wade Boggs (?), with HOF president Jeff Idelson:

Great seeing Kelsey Grammer @BaseballHall. For some reason he was looking for Wade Boggs. Cheers. @ChickenMan3010 pic.twitter.com/ESbdxz6KmK

- Jeff Idelson (@HallofFamePrez) July 21, 2015

And the SWAG is ready:

Good thing they made Randy sit, you know, because he's so dang tall:

We've reached the point where we can count down in hours (or even minutes, for the ambitious among us) until the induction ceremony. So while the honorees put finishing touches on their speeches (or, in Pedro's case, get ready to kinda wing it), we can start imagining what'll go down. Will Smoltz get some revenge on Greg Maddux for these zingers last year? 

We can at least expect some golf jabs:

And will there be fake beards, like the first ever ceremony? (Please, please say yes.)

We can't wait. 

Live coverage of Hall of Fame induction day begins at 11 a.m. ET Sunday on MLB Network, simulcast live on MLB.com.