[Malleus Dei]

Anyone who thinks that today's game is more than a shadow of what the game was in the past wasn't alive to see it then. It's natural that today's youngsters, who just don't know any better and don't have an experience base to draw from, think today's game is good baseball, but, as Henry put it "say what you will, baseball WAS better THEN."

And it was. You guys can say what you want to and make all of the arguments of youth; it changes nothing. Henry and I (and others) saw it then and we see it now and we KNOW. And you don't, and you won't, and you can't. But we do.

Enjoy your youthful illusions. Henry is right.