The golden age of sports performance is always happening right now, writes williamfleitch
Babe Ruth had nothing on Mike Trout. Photo: Patrick McDermott/Getty Images As I type this, my television — as tends to be the case these days — is tuned to the MLB Network. There, I’m watching a rebroadcast of a game played on July 20, 2004, in which Albert Pujols hit three home runs against the Chicago Cubs.
But while reliving all this past glory is temporarily satiating some people until their favorite league can finally return, I’ll confess all it’s doing is making me miss live sports more. Because nothing makes me realize just how amazing sports are now than realizing how much worse they used to be. Sometimes we forget that the sports we’re watching today are played at a higher level — a much higher level — than we’ve ever seen before. The golden age of performance is always happening right now.
There is value, of course, in putting players in the perspective of their era: Pujols was better than almost everyone else during his peak era, which is why he’ll be in Cooperstown someday. But the game he was playing is simply different than the one played now. Weight training, biomechanics, and technology in general have changed what the human body is capable of, while medicine and injury treatments have improved dramatically.
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