The Baseball Hall of Fame is a silly thing. Really, any Hall of Fame is a silly thing if you think about it to much. If we wanted to get even more abstract and nihilistic, no honoring body has any reason to exist. Nothing matters anyway. We should just appreciate the players in our own hearts or whatever. But against all odds and arguments for its validity, the place in Cooperstown done did it again, announcing their 2018 ballot for induction. Jim Thome is on it. Jim Thome is one of the few things that does matter.