So, I'm reding the newest issue of Sports Illustrated and the cover story is about some new wunderkid baseball player. He's 20 or 21, I don't remember, and has played a whopping 88 games as a professional. Thats roughly half of a season. True to form, SI is annointing him as a probable MVP for this season. Whats more, they are touting this kid as potentially the greatest of all time! Holy SH--, Willie, Joe (DiMaggio and Jackson), Babe, Lou and Micky, to name a few, are probably fuming over that crap.
When did our society become so impatient? What is it about us that we simply cannot wait for someone (or something) to actually happen before we get all crazy and proclaim someone anything of all time? Some guys past and present have had very good very long careers. Others have burst onto the scene with tremendous potential to simply fizzle after short bursts.
How many greatest of all time can there be? How is that measured? How do we handicap differences in time? I, for one, would appreciate a little more factual information and prefer you keep your fortune telling to a minimum. I enjoy your Magazine to a point.
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