I'm watching the Yankees right now and Michael Kay just made an EXCELLENT point. They're celebrating the 75th anniversary of Lou Gehrig's speech today. The Iron Man. 2130 straight games. Tough as nails and all that jazz.

And Jacoby Ellsbury, all of thirty years old, needed the day off because he's tired. Much irony?

Now I realize that because of prenatal drugs and advances in medicine and training techniques that today's athletes are bigger, stronger and faster in almost every way. But don't tell me that they're made of the same stuff as the old timers. Because they're not.