Timing is everything in life. In 1995, I got a speeding ticket for going 78 in a 65 zone. I drove through that same spot on the freeway on my way to the Winter Meetings this weekend, and the speed limit there is now 80. Maybe I was ahead of my time, but my big problem was timing.
Similarly, take what Dodgers catcher Will Smith said Monday evening on MLB Network. If he’d said it two months ago, it would have been tampering. But because timing is one of the many ways in which Will is better than me, he waited until free agency was in full swing to give his input on building a baseball team.