The James Brand Helton Review

Note #1: This review, as with all content I write on this site, is my opinion. It does not reflect the opinion of others, including the American Knife and Tool Institute (AKTI), the cutlery trade group that I advise on legal matters. Note #2: Sorry for yet another baseball intro. I love baseball. Hype is a problematic thing. One person sees promise. then another, and another, and then, like the psychology behind mass hysteria, EVERYONE agrees that something or someone is on the verge of greatness. Even if we all know, deep down, that the chance that this one thing or one person is the greatest of all time is very slim (one in sixteen billion for people), the hype has momentum and we can’t stop it. We know in our heads this is stupid, but we always think “What if…”. People burst on to the scene, whether it is sports or movies or politics, with a lot of hype and almost no one lives up to the hype. Baseball is littered with hype letdowns. Even really great players are hype let downs,…

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