As somewhat of an aside, and from the other side of the Atlantic, I'm regularly bemused by the significance which Baseball Hall of Fame status is given. The careers speak for themselves. As you say, the clips are there. Whether some set of baseball cognoscenti has seen fit to vote someone in for a variety of reasons and criteria is close to irrelevant as far as I'm concerned.
We don't have any meaningful equivalent in football (aka soccer) or cricket, and it doesn't stop people understanding who was better between Diego Maradona and Gunter Netzer, or between Don Bradman and Mike Brearley - from outside the US, the HoF really seems a bizarrely over-promoted novelty.
Hey ho. On the main thrust of your article; yeah, accepting disagreement and entertaining others' points of view seems awfully out-of-fashion these days. More than overdue for a comeback, I reckon.
As somewhat of an aside, and from the other side of the Atlantic, I'm regularly bemused by the significance which Baseball Hall of Fame status is given. The careers speak for themselves. As you say, the clips are there. Whether some set of baseball cognoscenti has seen fit to vote someone in for a variety of reasons and criteria is close to irrelevant as far as I'm concerned.
We don't have any meaningful equivalent in football (aka soccer) or cricket, and it doesn't stop people understanding who was better between Diego Maradona and Gunter Netzer, or between Don Bradman and Mike Brearley - from outside the US, the HoF really seems a bizarrely over-promoted novelty.
Hey ho. On the main thrust of your article; yeah, accepting disagreement and entertaining others' points of view seems awfully out-of-fashion these days. More than overdue for a comeback, I reckon.