Does Bryan Hayes believe what he said in that editiorial? Maybe. Or maybe he was simply the guy who was assigned to it or volunteered for it.
I may have already posted this story on the board before (time is a flat circle...esp. on HFBoards), but I once saw Tony Schiavone (of all people to cite in a hockey thread) tell the story of a slow day in his sports radio career. The host randomly mentioned that he didn't think Michael Jordan was the greatest basketball player of all time. The phone lines lit up. After his shift ends, the board op asks him "you don't
REALLY think Michael Jordan isn't the greatest basketball player of all time, do you?" The host responds "of course I don't, but we filled the hour, didn't we?"
