The longing for the older generation of players is always going to be there.
If you ever get a chance to read Jon Miller's book (
Confessions of a Baseball Purist) he does a whole chapter on these kinds of quotes from older players and writers, then gives their date (usually the 1930s or 1950s, when "today's players" that the writer is talking about are the ones older fans wax nostolgic about in the present). So like Pan says, in the future I'll be talking about (for example) guys like Ripken and Gwynn and (probably, as much as I would like to avoid it) Jeter and others in this same vein.
There's an awful lot about baseball that will always remain the same, no matter who is playing.
Of course, there are some things that should change...I'll take the numbers over the eyes of a bitter Indians fan any day
But seriously, this is going to be a really nice set of playoff series. Rays in six and Dodgers in five.