The someone was Greenie from "Mike and Mike" on ESPN Radio. I listen to them sporadically and this morning, during the 5 minutes they were on my car radio, I heard Greenie and Golic's stand-in discuss about the top athletes in the world and the best all-time athletes. This was, obviously, a discussion after seeing what Michael Phelps has been doing at the Olympics.
At that time, Greenie said, that how the people in USA refer to the World Series champions or Super Bowl champions as "World Champions" - he opined that they were not World but American champions. Phelps on the other hand was a true world champion.
Phew, I was glad to hear some American say that!
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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Ok, that's a baby step.
Here's my G & G gripe - They have debated plenty of times if Tiger Woods is the World's greatest athlete in the world. A guy carrying a stick and taking leisurely strolls across the park and barely breaking sweat as he swings his club to hit a long ball is being considered an athlete?? Laughable. What about the the batsman that concentrates for hours and hours in whatever conditions? These guys have no clue man.
It is indeed a baby step. And I was only happy that some American (with a public voice) realized that! For eons they have gone about calling them World Champs. I'd gone to TD Garden (Celtics' home) the other day to see some event and they had all these banners laid out as "World Champions" and not "NBA Champions". In fact, Celts have received permission from the league to put the new banner with the text "World Champs". Permission was needed because all of the recent winners have all had banners called "NBA Champs" apparently!
But, anyway, they were talking about the top 10 all time great athletes. And he did not include Armstrong in that (and I agree) saying that he only competed that one event and it seems there is another cyclist (whom I have never heard of) that competed in other races and won most of them. But he included Ruth. Now, that is not fair to Bradman, I thought! Who has even come close to his average? We talk of an average of 50 being amazing and he had 99+ for goodness' sake!
As always, these talks are fun (or irritating) but fruitless!
Was Tiger in the top 10 athletes list? I'm curious.
I don't know - like I said I only heard that for a few minutes and could only manage to consume two names - Phelps and Ruth!
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