So watch out Joe DiMaggio it&rsquos time for Bleacher Report to assault your hallowed record

So watch out, Joe DiMaggio, it’s time for Bleacher Report to assault your hallowed record.After searching the internet for advice, I quickly found out that there wasn’t any! So in my frustrations over not having some help in this game, I’ll do the research and offer some advice of my own.Here’s what I’ll offer every day. Two players who give you the best chance of getting a base hit that day That’s it. You pick one of the two and join the thousands who play in praying that he gets a hit that night.I’ll try to have it posted by 10 AM each day, because the picks are locked five minutes prior to the first pitch of the first game that day. Wednesday, June 25 – Picks lock at 12:55 EasternIan Kinsler, Texas RangersKinsler is 4-9 against Roy Oswalt. He has a homer and a double against the Astros’ pitcher Kinsler also has a hit in six straight games. He’s hitting .324 against righties and .318 in the month of June. David Wright, New York MetsWright is 2-7 lifetime against Seattle’s Miguel Batista, good for a .286 average. While that doesn’t look too spectacular, one of his hits is a homer, and he’s only struck out one time Wright’s hitting .281 at home and .283 at night. To top it off, Batista’s ERA is 6.00 and opponents are hitting .300 for the season..

In the middle of a European Championships it is difficult not to overrate players. As we watch on TV, it seems like every other player is described as “great,” “outstanding” and “exceptional.” It is what leads the modern football fan to ignore the true great players of the past, and focus only on the present players when talking about greatness.It is standard today for, in terms of entire football history, a pretty average player to be regarded as outstanding. In the current media age, such hyperbole is inevitable, and we are all taken in by it in one way or another.The EPL is the biggest media machine in football, and as such, it has always been at the forefront of overrating players. Thierry Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo, Steven Gerrard, and Frank Lampard to name a few, but these four have been declared “the best in the world” despite their performances on the biggest stages of all, European Championships and World Cups, not matching their EPL exploits.I am not saying that any of those players are not quality, but have any of them ever really been the best in the world?In my opinion, Eric Cantona was the first to be grossly overrated by the EPL media machine. When you look seriously at Eric’s career, what will he be remembered for most? Will it be a tremendous goal in a key game for club or country? Will it be for shaping a crucial match to his will, and lifting his team-mates from the jaws of defeat?No is the answer.

Cantona is most remembered for his Kung-Fu kicking, his bizarre press-conferences, and his false pretensions to be an artist or an actor.Football? In the media age, that is a mere sideshow to creating an aura, a myth, an ego.Let us look at club football first. Cantona struck 161 goals in 432 appearances in his club career. A respectable sum, but hardly one that sends shivers down the spines of your Pele’s, Cruyff’s, Maradona’s and Muller’s.Most noticeable is that he only managed 432 games. Even Maradona, with all of his personal problems, managed 590 club matches. Surely longevity is as much a factor in judging a player as anything else?Cantona made his debut for Auxerre in 1983, at age 17, he retired from football in 1997, at just 30, in a huge shock. His early retirement is another factor in the myth of Cantona, we miss most what we feel we have been deprived of.In reality though, was Cantona really such a big miss? Manchester United managed to win the treble without him just two seasons after his retirement.

That doesn’t exactly suggest that they had difficulty replacing him does it?In their first season without Cantona, 1997-1998, Manchester United finished second in the EPL a point behind Arsene Wenger’s double-winning Arsenal side. Again, if Cantona was that special, surely it would have had a much more dramatic effect on the United team when he was no longer there, and such a sudden departure too?In fact in finishing on 77 points in 1997-1998, United had managed two points more without Cantona, than they had in the previous title winning season with him. They also scored just three fewer goals in 1997-1998, despite the shock departure of such a supposedly huge creative and goalscoring influence.The Champions League is arguably the highest level of football, comparable in quality to the international game but exceeding it on the basis that the club teams are a mixture of the best from any country. Now, such a “great player” as Cantona would surely have made a big impact on the Champions League right?Well, not quite.