Ilook at Myles Garrett, and I think of Ralph Kiner.
OK, not really.
But I do think of a story the baseball legend loved to tell.
Kiner was a superstar slugger for a Pirates franchise that couldn’t win a thing. After the 1952 season, Pittsburgh general manager Branch Rickey offered him a pay cut from his $90,000 salary, the richest in the game, rivaled only by the contracts of Ted Williams and Stan Musial.
Kiner said no, reminding the boss he had led the National League in homers for seven straight years. Rickey shrugged and traded him to the Cubs.
“We finished last with you,” Rickey told Kiner. “We can finish last without you.”
For everyone’s sake, the last-place Browns should have told their biggest star the same.
Instead, Garrett has become the Mike Trout of the NFL, the Barry San

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