Last week, during a White Sox television broadcast, Darrin Jackson mentioned that Frank Thomas was in an elite class of players who over their careers, had 400 homers, 400 doubles, and had an OBP of over .400.

While naming off the Hall of Fame list, Ken (Hawk) Harrelson said that this OBP stuff is newly in vogue and it's going to get a lot of guys fired. This from a guy, who had to have one of the shortest stints as a team General Manager (one year), in baseball history. Not quite sure why Harrelson is so anti-SABR baseball, considering that during his career, his OBP was a very respectable, .86 points higher than his miserable batting average (.239).

Today during the broadcast, Harrelson said the A's can decide not to bunt, hit and run, steal bases, whatever they want to do and be successful, because of their starting pitching. While there is some validity to this idea, baseball traditionalists like Hawk, make it seem like the A's have lucked into all these great young pitchers, instead of acknowleging that the A's method of drafting college players, with excellent SABR stats, takes a lot of the fluke out of selecting. It's weird to think that a guy who was known as an iconoclastic player is now one of the leaders in pushing the old party line.