[Sublimity]

I caught the end of his show on ESPN Radio this afternoon, and he was talking about the Kenny Williams/Frank Thomas thing, which quickly moved into talk of Thomas' career. And he started saying that he likes to go with his gut feeling when it comes to the Hall of Fame, such that when he hears a name, if he says "Hall of Fame" immediately, that's a HoF player, but if he hesitates, it's not. (He's very much against the use of metrics of any kind.) So he said Thomas makes him hesitate just a little, with a part of him that says HoF no doubt, but part of him saying he didn't get enough clutch hits, was injured during key times, and other claims that don't have any numbers to back them up.

So then, inexplicably, he mentions Jim Rice, and says something to the effect, "I say 'Jim Rice' and immediately say 'Hall of Famer.' He dominated the sport for a decade. He was the Barry Bonds of his generation."

I almost crashed my car. Thanks, Colin.

He then said something else about how, if anything, Thomas may have underachieved over his career because he was expecting more. I didn't really catch that, as I was still laughing from hearing Rice being equated to Bonds.