When you don't see eye to eye with a legand

Joe Morgan is one of the greatest baseball players alive. He has seen and done things I can't even imagine. However, the more I learn about the game the less I can bring myself to agree with him.

He is constantly talking about how the game was so much better in his day, and in some ways it was, but there are tons and tons of things about today's game that are better. Today I read him saying how pitchers were better when he played then they are now. Personally I think he's full of crap. If you would put Johan Santana in the league back then, his ERA very well may have gone negative. I mean that's just how good he is.

I wonder if he (like many other people in the game) feel as if somethings have passed them by and just feel as if those things are just simple not as good because they didn't get it. I am not saying Mr. Morgan isn't smart enough to get it, but I liken it to my dad with the remote control. No matter how many times I explain how to use the thing, he never seems to truly get it. Maybe that's how SABER is for older guys. I don't know a single person who believes players should be rewarded solely for stats (or else Royce Clayton would have been out of the game already) but that stats augment and increase our appreciation of the game.