There is a point in almost any baseball fan's life when they realize, with a moment of sad resignation, that every Major League Baseball player is younger than they are. Major League Baseball players are roughly the same age, forever; it's the rest of us who keep getting older. And eventually, we're older than all of them. I've joked before that this is Baseball Fan Woodersonism, referring to Matthew McConaughey's character from "Dazed and Confused." My seven stages of Baseball Fan Woodersonism:
• Youth. All baseball players are older than you. They all seem eternal and massive, like redwoods.