If you're about supporting upholding and representing the Old School, then your aspirations are excellence. To the stars through perseverance. Ad astra per aspera. You might not hit it...you might not even get CLOSE. But that's your goal.
And if you're about supporting and upholding the Old School then you recognize that excellence comes in many forms and many exteriors. I remember talking to a young brother about Tiger Woods, and whether he could get into an all-white private golf club NOW.
"Of COURSE he could," was my reply. If those old white men knew anything about the game of golf, if they'd ever spent a few hours on the back nine, there is no way they could deny his greatness. They'd let him in (and then keep US out) with the QUICKNESS.
Ralph Wiley wrote a piece on Barry Bonds today, that should pretty much . The Detroit Tigers have sucked too much these past 17 years for me to be a baseball guy...but I'll be damned if I don't recognize how hard it is to hit 658 home runs over the course of a 20 year career. I might not have game YET, but I recognize it in those that do.