Sometimes in life, you just make the wrong decision. I should have said, "Yes," when Julie's friend asked me if I liked her in the 7th Grade. I should have trusted my talent and tried out for sports in High School. Decisions change a life completely sometimes. Such a decision was made by Drew Henson when he left his senior year as the Michigan Wolverine's star quarterback to grab a big bonus by the Yankees as their next superstar.

Of course, Drew still got the money, but he wasn't cut out for baseball. He struggled in three years of minor league ball and went one for eight in his only major league experience. That one hit was the most expensive in Yankee history. But even though Henson got the money, he didn't get the fame and who knows what would have happened in the NFL.

Drew Henson was an automatic first round choice in the NFL if he had stayed his senior year. After all, Tom Brady was his backup! That's how good a quarterback he was. Now after three years of banging around in the minors, he gets to try out in the Houston Texans camp (they hold his football rights but have another quarterback named Carr). Will his skills still be there? It's definitely and iffy proposition after being away for three years. Look at all that seasoning he missed.

Henson's decision shows just how difficult it is to be a major league baseball player. He had all the tools. Joe Torre said he was going to be a superstar. But you have to go out and do it and he never could. In his last minor league season, he struck out 122 times and made 28 errors at third base. That's what I call stinking up the place.

Dion Sanders tried baseball with small success in brief flashes, but ultimately, he was ordinary at best. Bo Jackson came the closest to being a star in baseball as he was in football. But then, Bo was the best athlete I ever saw. He could do everything. A hip replacement slowed him down and then soon out.

Henson wasn't nearly as good as Dion and he was about as bad or worse than Michael Jordan in Jordan's aborted attempt to play baseball. A commercial during the Super Bowl last night made fun of baseball as a boring game. Of course, we fans know that's a cheap shot. It's a different game than football. We'll give you that.

Baseball, more than any other big time sport is about doing a bunch of small things well. It's not about being the fastest or strongest. It's about a thousand motor skills done to perfection. Some people like Derek Jeter do them all well. The Drew Hensons, Dion Sanders and Michael Jordans of the world found out how hard it was to do even a few of them.

Drew Henson had a decision to make and he made it. He followed his heart. You can't blame him for that. He made some good money doing it. But did he give up a chance at football superstardom? Time will tell. But if so, he's lost three years that he'll never get back. Hey, at least he got eight at bats in the big leagues.