Mickey Mantle was baseball.

Mickey Mantle was baseball.

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.

We're still buzzin' about Bruce Springsteen at halftime, but I'll tell you if there was one guy we weren't thinking was 'Born To Run' it was James Harrison.

Yes folks, their gold medal looks the same as everybody elses.

If that's the last image of Michael Jordan...how magnificent is it!?