Mary, baseball vs, football, couple of more arguments, and keep in mind that my favorite athlete growing up was Ted Williams, who they say was the best at the single hardest thing to do in sports: hitting a baseball going 90+ with all kinds of spin and movement on it.
If you find 100 people same age, weight and size of Ray Lewis and get them in shape to bench press a few hundred pounds and run the 40 in 4 or 5 secs, you have yourself a few NFL football players.
Just because someone is a clone of Ray Lewis doesn't mean he wants to hurl himself at people as big and as fast as he is, as hard as he can for 60 minutes a week. You can get killed. No such danger in baseball. Well, Randy Johnson chin music, but when's the last time somebody got killed in baseball.
In baseball, you can have very marginal players hang around long after athletes in other sports would be gone. The left handed relief pitcher comes to mind. If you can get the ball over with something on it, and do absolutely nothing else athletic, you can hang around 'til you're 45. Tony Fossas and Dennis Cook come to mind. OK, place kickers in football, but they don't participate in the real action of the game.
You get 10,000 people with the same characteristics of John Kruks and get them in shape, you are unlikely to get one major league baseball player.
Kind of like the argument about left handed relievers, but there are more people that are specialists in baseball that only have to do one thing: pinch hit, left handed relieve.
This is like comparing a chip stock to a network stock, no can do very well.
Tony |
