Billy Hamilton is aware of Usain Bolt’s existence, and apparently he's unimpressed.
Usain bolt is a fool lol
— billy hamilton(@b_ham_3) August 7, 2012
Can we please build up a rivalry between these two gentlemen that leads to a foot race? Seeing Hamilton humbled might be the best way to make baseball fans appreciate Bolt.
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"pro baseball player in da Cincinnati reds organization"
Twitter really is tremendous.
That said, the 100m is all he does. Carl Lewis was a MUCH better athlete.
As things have gotten progressively more specialized, I wonder if we'll ever see another all-arounder like Lewis. Lewis apparently doesn't like to make comparisons across eras. It's come up in a couple of Joe Posnanski's recent columns, including (which I can't find right now) the position that you can't really compare times because the best would find a way to win, whatever the competition, so you really just need to judge sprinters by their own era.
It'd be extremely hard to compare them. I would think that starting from a slide step, turning, running about 70 feet through dirt/mud then sliding takes different skills and is at a different speed than running an Olympic race on a "rubber?" track. Even the running shoes/cleats are different.
It might be interesting to see them race if they did it twice, once as a simulation of the basepaths with dirt and all, and the other on a race track.