I don't get it either, BIll. I'm not even good at favorites. When someone does one of those icebreaker exercises and asks something like, "What's your favorite restaurant?", I struggle. I don't have many absolute favorites - I just like the ones I like, and which I like more at a given moment probably depends what I crave. Some days, that might just be Waffle House cheese & eggs with raisin toast and hash browns (scattered, covered, chunked, and diced).I think I proved my initial point. For some reason, everything has to be graded, everyone must have an opinion on who is the 'greatest' at anything. There is no method by which one can I say "I like X" without proclaiming and publically defending X being the GOAT.
Why? I still don't get it. I would ask who cares, but clearly everyone does, so my question instead is WHY does everyone care?
I find it boring and uninteresting in the extreme. What was the best Western? Who hit the hardest? Best QB? Best bass player? Best song? Not only do I not care, I don't understand why anyone does care.
And if you ask the question, all you get are more recitations of why blah blah blah is the best at blah blah blah.
None of you are that person, object, or service. You have zero vested interest in putting forward or defending the idea that they are the best at anything. You'll never get the rest of the world to agree with you, and you won't get paid for having and defending your proclamation. What's the point?
"But D0000d, Henry Q. Higgenbottom is the BEST llama groomer of ALL TIIIIIIIIIME! I will totally lose my schizzzzzz if you don't agree with me! I've got STATS, bro!"