[molson]

It's crazy how in 1986, when I started following baseball as an 8 year old, I could have told you most of the starting lineups and top starting pitchers from almost every team by the end of that season. Without really trying, and without the internet.

Now, even though I've never really stopped following baseball, and know my Red Sox pretty well, I'd find it difficult to name maybe - 20 other players in all of baseball? And most of those only because they used to play for the Red Sox. I guess my brain has other things to concern itself with now.

And I don't even understand how I was so knowledgeable in '86. I watched games on weekends, and This Week in Baseball, and I probably read Peter Gammons' columns in the Boston Globe. Maybe it was the baseball cards.