Buster Olney had this to say about Matt Holliday:

Holliday is really respected by talent evaluators as a dangerous hitter, but here’s the deal: He has 49 at-bats and no homers, and in order to cash in as a free agent this fall, he’s got to do a whole lot better in the extra-base hit department. As much as Holliday has done as a hitter in recent years, he must prove to rival executives that he can put up big power numbers outside Coors Field. It’s as simple as that.

 I am glad someone else has noticed.

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In yet another sign from the baseball gods telling us that we were fools to trade away Nick Swisher, the Swish-Man PITCHED for New York yesterday, tossing a scoreless eighth inning.  A scoreless eighth inning that just so happened to be the most dominant Yankee pitching performance of the day.

We’re laughing now, but just wait until 2035 when fans and media alike dub Nick Swisher the greatest Yankee of all time.  We’ll curse the day we lost Swish and his 78 MPH cheese.

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Details here.  This is not exactly the best forum to talk about this.  Suffice it to say that this is a tragedy, and that our thoughts and prayers go out to them who knew him better than us.  

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Old School A’s fan and CurveBallCity citizen Jon writes, “Dan Quisenberry: The Quiz–deserves to be the Q on the list.”  While the decrees of the CurveBallCity “A-Z” Executive Committee are usually final, we’re willing to make an exception in any case that allows us to remove Paul Quantrill from this site.  Nice work, Jon.

Hence the present revisitation.  While it’s only been three years since we last posted the “Greatest Athletes of All Time” A-Z list (and really, three years shouldn’t be making too much of a dent in an “All Time” sense), we’re not ashamed to admit that not a great deal of research went into the original list formation process.  As such, it may be time to make some changes to our arbitrary, subjective categorizations.  What say you?  Was Lou Gehrig “greater” than Wayne Gretzky?  Or John Stockton than Barry Sanders?  Here in April of 2009, three years older and wiser, we’re willing to admit that we may have been wrong back in those golden, halcyon days of 2006 (also known as the short-lived “Milton Bradley Didn’t Seem Like He Was That Crazy” Era).

(On the other hand, being three years younger didn’t stop us from ignoring List Contributor Joey Anderson’s protests that LaDainian Tomlinson was better than Jim Thorpe.  How’s that one lookin’ now, Joey?)

Without further ado, the list as it presently stands:

A—Muhammad Ali

B—Larry Bird

C—Wilt Chamberlain

D—Joe Dimaggio

E—Julius Erving

F—Joe Frazier

G—Wayne Gretzky

H—Rickey Henderson

I—Allen Iverson

J—Michael Jordan

K—Sandy Koufax

L—Carl Lewis

M—Willie Mays

N—Joe Namath

O—Sadaharu Oh

P—Pele

Q—Dan Quisenberry

R—Babe Ruth

S—Barry Sanders

T—Jim Thorpe

U—Johnny Unitas

V—Michael Vick

W—Ted Williams

X—X-Pac

Y—Cy Young

Z—Zinedine Zidane

Seriously.  Can no one get X-Pac off this list? 

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