Does anyone else find this autograph pathetic

[sportsnbikes]

All Star Fan Fest in 2012 Wil Myers was asked for his "good" autograph. His response was, "This is my good autograph".

[Roady]

Looks better than Cargo's autograph. -> OO

[gorphils]

Its interesting about the penmanship issue...cursive writing is a dinassour (sp) these days and with there being little reason for it other than an occasional signature its reasonable that crappy sigs are everywhere. And, as another person said, try signing your name a bunch of times quickly and in succession. A...its not going to look the same every time and B...you will probably end up with something sloppy or shortened because of laziness. I collect autographs and what they sign is what they sign. None of us would probably do better after awhile.

[bravesfanjd]

All Star Fan Fest in 2012 Wil Myers was asked for his "good" autograph. His response was, "This is my good autograph".

That is hilarious

Thank you all for your opinions so far always nice to hear how other collectors feel on issues a lot of good points were made

[russyurk]

Get used to this guys, I've overseen a few signings for Upper Deck at work with high school kids and some of these kids can't write in cursive so they printed their name on the labels.

[Roady]

I think it is important to think about why we collect autographs.
What is so special about ink marks and lines on something.
The player only held a pen and moved it around.

I would think most collect because the autograph is the players own personal artistic work. It is something that he makes that nobody else does.
If that artistic work is a Ted Williams or a Wil Myers it is still unique to that player.
Would you not want a Babe Ruth autograph if he only signed it BR.
I would not care if he made an X, I would want that Babe Ruth!

[jojac]

Part of the problem is younger people don't learn to write or sign their name anymore because there isn't a need for it as there once was. We currently have things like automatic deposit and debit cards so why would a kid care about what his signature looks like when they rarely need to use it. Everything is typed on a computer and nothing is ever hand written. Younger people just don't have writing skills anymore.