The Best

Michael Jordan was the best basketball player to ever play the game, and it was not even close. He brought unmatched skill, unmatched athleticism, unmatched basketball IQ, unmatched intensity and desire to win, unmatched leadership ability, all to the same point for years.

Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer ever to play the game, even if his assault on Jack's records is halted by the issues he has had the last couple of years, he still has duplicated or exceeded many of Jack's feats already and done so with the exact same set of skills I listed above for Michael.

Wayne Gretsky anyone. Ken Griffey, Junior.

I am a sports fan and so I can list these guys and if I wanted to take the time list all of their accomplishments. The same cannot be said for other fields, but I do know that there are people, Like George Winston, greatest pianist to every live, or play, or entertain. There are people who could tell me the name of the greatest neurosurgeon on the planet. The best physicist, the best rocket scientist, we all jokingly refer to this entire group of people all the time, "well he is no rocket scientist," "he is no brain surgeon," but the fact of the matter is that there are bests in each and every corner of this planet, each and every profession, vocation, hobby, there is the best. Even eating hot dogs really fast there is someone that is the best, and by the way that is gross!! The hot dogs I could eat a few, the wet buns, not so much.

There is something that everyone is supposed to be best at, from being a dad, to being sloppy, to being funny, sorry Robin I didn't mean to forget you!! Yes Jeff Foxworthy is funny and has apparently made the most money at being funny, but Robin and his fifteen minute tangents that come back to the middle of the same word he left, wow, but speaking of tangents. There is something that everyone is best at, or at least should be.

I wish I knew what mine was, and I wish I had known a long time ago, like at the beginning of my life, or maybe at the age of two, or even at eighteen, or twenty two would have been nice. I know what everyone else thought I was best at, and I know what I was "supposed" to be best at, and I even have some ideas what I am best at now, but I just have never been sure. Too much time doing who knows what for who knows whom, and too much time pretending I was good at something to the point that I was a pretty good pretender, but not the best!!

Even if I figure it out now I will not be able to do it for forty or fifty years like some that I know, my dad for one, Sage for another. Not exactly sure what they were best at, but I know they knew, and they were.

Find what you are best at as early as possible, or convince your kids, your grandkids, strange kids in the street...maybe not...that they are going to be best at something and help them get there. Some people are even best at that.

Thank you again for getting this far with me.