One thing I have learned from scribbling columns about sportsball and the St. Louis Cardinals is that when it comes to trade/free agency acquisitions, you get nothing but hate from recommending against acquiring Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb or Honus Wagner.
This is because certain types of fans never account for:
- The fact that the determination that Babe Ruth was Babe Ruth was ascertained towards the end of his career, and someone who *seems* to be Babe Ruth now in the middle of his career may indeed not be.