But technology is not changing the way baseball is played, people still pitch, and hit, and they hit a few more homeruns every now and then, but it is still essentially the same game. Same with Football, people still run around and tackle, carry the ball, and pass the ball…And with basketball it is not technology, you could almost blame it on Jordan setting the bar so high for the future, that kids/men train that much harder to be like him and it makes everyone better eventually. Although you could argue that basketball has changed in the fact that there are much more dunks than layups from the 60’s, but that doesn’t change the game.
And about the records, if there were no records, or once one person got a record, what would the point in playing so hard for so long be if there was no way to break them…and isn’t the saying, “records are meant to be broken…” or something along those lines. And if you ask those guys how they feel, they do not mind, take Pete Sampras for example, arguably the best player to play the game at this point in time(maybe second best), but he has the most grand slams. When asked about how he feels to have Roger Federer almost guaranteed to break and shatter his grandslam record he just shruggs it off and says oh well, if someone of his calibre is going to take my record, so be it, he will be the greatest player to play the game.
And onto the philosophical part…I just do not enjoy people arguing about tennis when they do not know squat about what they are talking about(no offense to anyone here)…Especially when it is a top 3 sport in the WORLD, yet it is not even a top 10 sport in the U.S.
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I guess what I am trying to say is, go NOVAK, and go MARAT(don’t get mad)!!!