Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Bottom line: people don't care if LeBron is sauced to the gills the way they resent Ryan Braun for being juiced. bernstein has a problem with baseball but you never hear him complaining about a juiced up Payton following a juiced up Thayer and Hilgy into the endzone.
Dan has always conceded that football and basketball are games that require you to be physical freaks, while baseball is to be a game of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. I understand the distinction--hockey is similar in that you have to find the game; the game doesn't find you--but who's to declare that baseball "is to be" an average man's game?
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Molly Lambert wrote:
The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.