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Ken Griffey is the first real legitimate player this century to join the 600 club. Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds? Come on! They are a disgrace to the game and it is great to see a player such as Griffey reach this milestone in his career, cleanly. If it were not for all the seasons on the injured list, I bet Ken Jr. would be approaching the 700 mark, and giving that dump-truck Bonds a run for his money. Either way, kids should ignore players of the like of Sammy Sosa or Barry Bonds in the record books, they don’t deserve it. Players like Griffey deserve the records, video games, shoe endorsements, and the respect.
Here’s the only quality video I could find of the homer:
Once again, congrats to a great, respected baseball player.
After a weekend of watching the College World Series and several super regional games, there was one play during the Florida St. vs Wichita St. that reminded me of a very familiar play from 2003. This “foul ball poacher” has been blamed for the downfall of the Cubs in Game 6 versus the Marlins. How did fans react?
Although not on the MLB standing, we nearly saw this again this weekend. FSU pitcher Geoff Parker got Wichita batter Andy Dirks to pop up down the left field line with 2 outs, one runner on base. As third baseman Stuart Tapley went to make the routine catch, a FSU fan reached over the fence and nabbed the ball. The very next pitch Dirks went yard for a 2 run homer. Wichita managed to squeeze out 2 more runs that inning making the score 6 - 4. Florida State went on to win the game big time, but life could have been worse for the foul ball catcher had they lost.
Steve Bartman now resides in an undisclosed location in Northern Florida and is taunted to this day.
In April, a construction worker named Gino Castignoli showed his true fan hood and devotion to the Boston Red Sox by putting a piece of David Ortiz into the building of the new Yankees stadium . . . well, not literally. Castignoli placed a Ortiz jersey under nearly 2 feet of concrete hoping to curse the stadium for its duration.
The question is, would you tell someone that you pulled a prank such as this? There have been many pranks that actually worked just because the pranksters didn’t tell a sole before it was done.
Take for instance the Yale students who made the entire Harvard sideline spell out “We Suck”. This prank worked because they didn’t let a soul know about it.
Or perhaps the Harvard students in 1986 pulling this stunt on MIT:
“Using a vacuum, a 1967 Mustang, a weather balloon, a handful of marbles and some talcum powder, a group of students lampooned the 1982 Yale-Harvard football game by inflating a latex bubble at the 46-yard line. The balloon erupted from beneath the turf and grew to about a six-foot diameter before it exploded. The startled crowd of bulldog-haters and anti-Harvardites united in confusion for just a moment, until they realized that the atypical balloon was not donned with “Happy Birthday” or the Easter Bunny — it was covered in the letters: MIT. After the game, MIT school president Paul Gray wrote the Harvard president asking for the contraband techno-lark that caused pandemonium at the rivalry football game. He wanted to put it on display.
The point is, if you are going to pull a prank then don’t tell a soul until you have successfully pulled it off. In the case of Castignoli, I think he would have been much happier if he would have just taken this one to the grave.