The new year

I live in Kansas Ciy. This means that my football watching has been over for a few weeks. A few local teams in bowl games, but once K.C. gave it away in Dallas it was clear no local team would be playing for anything other than respect. No champions of anything, not even the anything "north".
So lets look at Baseball. Might as well start sooner since the Royals often finish sooner than other teams, meeting the magic number for elimination as if it was there goal all along. Bruce Sutter to the Hall of Fame? Not sure how Dale Murphy is keeps getting virtualy ignored. Back to Back MVPs. Remember? I do. I had his cards. And Beckett Baseball Card monthly delivered to my home. And Andre Dawson. Probably the early Hall of Fame caualties of the steriod scandal. The juice pushed career totals way up, and guys like Sosa and Palmero make us question whether 500 is a ticket in. Dawson finished with 438 bombs and Murphy with 398. They were absolutley two of the finest outfielders of the era, combining speed defense and power in a very 80s way, with doubles and soft hands. Dawson was a DHand the end ,hanging on to get over 400 in a time where that might have been enough to get to Cooperstown. Murphy retired to pride when he could no longer do what he had as a younger man. Both played the game with class and grit, but they lose to the numbers. And the tears I guess, somebody tell me how Kirby Puckett beat these guys in? Dave Winfield, Andre Dawson and Dale Murphy dominated the NL outfield at the turn of the 1980s. Winfield left San Deigo for the glitz of New York and stayed in the game through the 1995 season with Cleveland. His longeivity allowed him to pile up numbers. His 3000 hits make the 400 homer question moot. I have often thought of Winfield as a Jabbar-esque figure in baseballs hitory. The physical similarities are there, both being outsized mustachioed men.
Speaking of staches, how does the current view of the best first base stash of the nineties, Raphael Palmeiro, effect the historical view of Hernanbez and Garvey, the best of the eighties?
Next up KU basketball.