I really don’t want to write this. Back before he was elected to the Hall of Fame, I was one of the more vocal proponents of Jim Rice’s case for election. At one point, Rice himself linked to one of my articles on his now-defunct blog. Over the years, I’ve had more online arguments about Rice’s place in the Hall of Fame than anything else, and it got pretty exhausting after a while. I finally just stopped engaging about him. After all,