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I like Brady. I'm not a Pats fan. I'm a Giants fan, so I have no axe to grind with Brady, but he is not better than Unitas, on the all time great scale. None of today 's QBs match Johnny U as an all-time great. The rules are different today-- mamby pamby compared to the era of Unitas.

Uh the award for best pitcher is named after him.

By the end of his career he will not even be as good as Aaron Rodgers and maybe even Drew Bree's. I guess they plus Peyton are all all- time greats playing at the same time. I am sorry, but I am not buying it. The rules of the game are skewed in favor of chucking the ball today. That is why the stats are so gaudy.

Brady ahead oh Johnny U who revolutionized the QB position, is just absurd.

1,815 hits at home 1,815 hits on the road.

In 22 major league seasons, he never struck out 50 times in any season, yet he hit 475 HRs in his career. That is pretty remarkable.

They could live with Salty if he wasn't so horrible at handling the pitching staff. I never wanted to believe that catchers make that much of a difference to pitchers, but the numbers on Salty are consistently and extremely bad.

I think at the time Stan the Man died he owned every NL hitting record. Joe Garagiola used to tell some great stories about Stan the Man. When asked about hitting the spitter, Stan the Man replied, "I just hit the dry side". The author of the last biography of Musial said that he had been a fan of Musial during his playing days, but when he wrote the book he expected to lose some of his admiration for him. With all of the other subjects of his books he had always learned about the non public side which usually wasn't very flattering. His admiration for his subjects always decreased while researching them. Musial was the only subject that he came to admire more after researching him. He said in his book that he had a lot of difficulty finding anyone who had anything negative to say about Musial. One of the few people with which he had a disagreement late in life was Garagiola. The disagreement was over a business venture. It think he has the distinction of being the only player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame of an opposing team. The Brooklyn Dodgers inducted him into their Hall of Fame. That's the kind of people that Brooklyn Dodger fans were. If you beat them, but we're great they would acknowledge you as long as you were not a Giant.

Different game back then, and Graham was the best of that age. It wasn't debatable.

RIP. One of the giants of the game and by all accounts he was one of the good guys.

It's hard to make the argument that a player is the best of all time when he didn't even dominate his own era. Was there anyone in the discussion with Unitas in the late 1950's and early 1960s or Otto Graham in the early 50s? No. End of story about greatest ever. He's behind those 2 guys right off the bat.

I wonder if the author ever saw Unitas in the 1950's. Brady has one problem to overcome before he can make a credible claim to the title of greatest ever. He can't beat Eli. It's kind of like Wilt the Stilt with Russell.

IMO, getting another starter would leapfrog us over a bunch of teams.

What is scary is that 15th or 16th would be a big improvement over last season when 23 teams had better records.

IMO, in no particular order: Yankees Rays Toronto Angels Rangers A's Tigers Nats Phillies Braves Giants Dodgers Cards Reds Orioles That's 15

Just because he's likely to make less of a fuss than Lackey. It's very possible That Lackey needs to stay in Florida when camp breaks.

He was an entertaining character. RIP

Nats are pretty darn strong. Angels are stacked with talent on both sides of the ball. Our roster is bottom half.

I don't think we can compete with the Rangers, and I still like the A's pitching better than ours.

You guarantee Marcum a spot and use Doubs as a long man. Before the middle of May, Doubs will be getting starts, because someone will be injured or s***ing himself.

People pay too much attention to the offense because it is "sexy".

The offense will be just fine if Ortiz has 2 sound legs.