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Originally Posted by guccilvr
Pan, I'm not picking on you, but I absolutely hate when people start talking shit about the talent of today and how much better and pure the past was.. especially in baseball. I would bet everything I had, that if Ruth were alive today, he would be a run of the mill player. The game has just evolved to that point. The game of baseball has never been pure. The game will always have it's super stars and super contracts. That's just how it is. Comparing past and present just doesn't work.
Baseball has it's faults as does every sport ( I totally agree about the QB flags). However, it still has plenty of beauty and merit.. which is why I still watch and will continue to watch.
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You have 30 MLB teams, the talent pool is shallow. That's why we are looking to Japan, and overseas. But you are right comparing past players with modern players isn't quite fair. But who has the hustle Pete Rose showed? The loyalty of Andre Thornton, who in 1980 could have signed for far more anywhere else but stayed in Cleveland because he knew the Indians as a franchise would probably die without him (as he was pretty much their drawing card). To say the talent is better today.... is as one sided as saying the talent was better in the past.
Yes it does have its beauty and merits, as does any sport, but as I stated above; they could come out and say every World Series, Super Bowl, and so on has been fixed for the past 10 years and we will continue to do it; yet, the vast majority of us would still watch and cheer our teams.
It is what it is.... a multi billion dollar industry that will keep treating fans like shit and playing on their emotions and not give a damn about any tarnish. I may dare to go as far as to say the owners may be loving all the attention because controversy stems interest, interest increases ticket sales and ad revenue.