I’m not sure how old exactly Jon Heyman is, but I can see from a quick google search that he graduated college the same year as me, so I’m going to guess he’s about my age. Speaking for myself, I was 8 years old when Bert Blyleven entered the major leagues. I was alive, certainly, and retain some vague memories of him and his famous curveball from the first say, decade of his career, though I imagine I never saw him even on TV prior to the ’79 Series of maybe a game of the week sometime during the ’79 season.

I’m just trying to imagine how large an act or arrogance and how small an act of intelligence it would take for me to say “I saw his whole career.”

Seriously if going by gut reactions and impressions Blyleven was twice the pitcher Jenkins was and 3-4 times the pitcher Sutton was in my book. He just did not spend as much time in large media markets as the other two. And probably refused to comp Heyman a steak dinner or something. Glad to see some one take the mental gimp to task.