Baseball is the best sport.
The business of baseball sucks, but the game itself is the best.
Men of all sizes can play it.
The strategy is complex and the skills are various and difficult.
There’s no clock and the team that’s ahead can’t just sit on its lead, they have to give the other team all of its out.
The hardest thing in any sport is to hit a 99 mph fatsball followed by an 82 mile mph change up. The greaest hitter of all time was Teddy Ballgame Williams and it isn't close. Don't come with your Fat Ruth or Dimaggio or Bonds or anyone 5 years lost of his prime due to war. Last guy to hit.400. No one swung a prettier bat.
The greatest hockey player to ever lace them up was no 4 Bobby Orr. Orr could go end to end untouched and score goals. No one could rag the puck for 1-2 minutes on the shorthand and go untouched.
No one was or will ever be a +/- 132 in a season or even his second best 84. No defense man will touch his scoring records. Wayne Gretzky would have lasted 2 years in Orr's era he was too fragile and I love the great one. Mario Lemieux would have been able to play in Orr's era as he was a big boy and tough. Ovechkin cluld have played as could Messier, you had to be a tough guy. Best sniper in the game Mike Bossy.
The Goat Tom Brady, enough said.
The greatest winners in the history of sporst Bill Russell 11 rings, Sam Jones, 8 rings, John Havlicek, 8 rings.
MIchael Jordan was a punk. 6 lousy rings in an era where mugging your opponent was allowed. He won nothing in his prime until Celtics got old, then Lakers got old then Detroit got old then finally Utah with a 2 man team lets him win. Couldn't shoot the three, was a decent passer, great driver of the ball, great pull up jumper, great defender. Still a loser till all the real greats got old. Kareem, Magic Larry Legend, take em all before Jordan. and I know basket ball. Don't even go there with me and embarrass yourself.
Greatest unstoppable shoot in the game besides Kareems Skyhook? Elvin Hayes turnaround jumper off the glass. I had that shot from the left side and tortured people with it.
Boston is the greatest sports town and has had the best players in each sport and the rest of you are just jealous pikers. Now stick that in your pipe and smoke it.
Goddamn 27 Yankee titles, really burns my ass.
