The OFFICIAL put a fork in Dimaggio's 56 game hit streak post
joestalin
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Last week I was worried to jinx it but now Im sure that this guy is in the freaking zone. He WILL break the record, the Phils will win the wild
card, and WILL win the pennant and then the WS. Then the Eagles will go 2-14...oh wait forget that last part.
Another Yankee record goes bye bye...Williams should of won the MVP that year anyways!
JS
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card, and WILL win the pennant and then the WS. Then the Eagles will go 2-14...oh wait forget that last part.
Another Yankee record goes bye bye...Williams should of won the MVP that year anyways!
JS
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<< <i>He got a bogus hit today. No stoppin' him now!!! >>
Just like Joey D got several bogus hits in his streak, good to see some things never change!
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Consecutive hit streaks are sheer luck.
Of course you have to be a great hitter
to constantly put the ball in play, but after that it's all just a big crap shoot.
Never could figure out why fans worshiped Cal Ripken either. He was lucky enough to not to get injured.
Big frigin' deal.
Other than that, he was a mediocre player at best,
and at worst hurt his team by continuing to play while washed-up for year after year after year ...
"How about a little fire Scarecrow ?"
<< <i>Just like Joey D got several bogus hits in his streak, good to see some things never change! >>
Must be cool to be old enough to remember, game by game, Joe D's hit streak and his "bogus hits". What an idiotic statement. Dude was also playing in a park that was 457 to LC, one of the toughest parks in history on righties. The streak got snapped, then he hit in 20 or so more games....
If Arod hit in 5 straight games you'd be here celebrating like it was the greatest achievement in the world.
Hey Stalin, I don't know which of those statements is crazier then the other
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the pressure will be ten times what it is now if he makes it to 40.
I'll say he doesn't make it past this weekend.
<< <i>Never could figure out why fans worshiped Cal Ripken either. He was lucky enough to not to get injured.
Big frigin' deal.
Other than that, he was a mediocre player at best,
and at worst hurt his team by continuing to play while washed-up for year after year after year ...
Yeah, I guess the Rookie of the Year award, 2 MVPs, leading his team to the championship in '83, and setting records for feilding at shortstop does make him look medicore without the streak.
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Nothing to see hear. Move along.
As far as 1941 - Williams had the better season.
As far as Ripken - I like him alot, but his streak should not have lasted that long. He should have sat for a few games ... maybe games the Orioles would have won, maybe a few more wins would have led to a wildcard/AL East title, that may have led to something else. With Baltimore being local, many sports writers were wondering why the hell he was playing at times. He was friggin awful for stretches that sometimes reached 20 friggin games.
But he's white, and has big steel blue eyes ... add that to him being born a few miles away, and you would have had several dead managers if he was benched.
Cal Ripken is a first ballot HOFer and resurrected the game of baseball after the 1994 strike. His race has nothing to do with the streak either. Sorry, but your points are baseless and lame.
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When did I say that Ripken is not a first ballot HOFer?
Baseless and lame??? I guess you are one of those "The Streak over The Team" Bawlmorons ... and there are many, many of them. Ripken, as much as he was a great player should have sat at times.
If Ripken was a black player that was born elsewhere he would have been benched because of poor play. As he should have been. The LOCAL media was all over him and the manager at times, and that point was suggested. Ripken was the local hometown homegrown hero. It is widely known that many players wondered why he was still playing when he was running on fumes and on empty at times.
Racism is out there, so don't put on blinders.
I'd rather blame Angelos as well as the scouts he employed. For the amount of "Top prospects" the O's drafted in the 90's many of them never made it out of the minors.
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Still happy that Abreu is gone ...
BTW, Congrats to Chase Utley for extending his streak!
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Hey, Ripken was the man in that town w/o the streak - he was born up the street!!!. I am sure that Topps can attest, as he lives close to Baltimore that there was absolutely no way that Ripken was allowed to be benched.
I remember playing golf at a course in Havre de Grace. One guy was talking about how Johnson (I think it was him) should bench him, and his buddies agreed but said if he did he would be putting his life in his hands. This was the hometown guy.
<< <i>1420,
Cal Ripken is a first ballot HOFer and resurrected the game of baseball after the 1994 strike. His race has nothing to do with the streak either. Sorry, but your points are baseless and lame. >>
He resurrected the game?
I think you meant to point to the HR chase between McGwire and Sosa in 98 that truly resurrected the game. Why else do you think the suspected steroid use/abuse went unchecked by the owners and commish?
And there were definitely games Cal should have sat...no one in their right mind can sit there and say that he was the best option every night for his streak.
Let's not forget his daddy was the manager for several of those years, by the time he was gone, he was going to get the streak.
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And there were definitely games Cal should have sat...no one in their right mind can sit there and say that he was the best option every night for his streak.
Let's not forget his daddy was the manager for several of those years, by the time he was gone, he was going to get the streak. >>
Who was a better option that the O's had?
You seem to forget Cal Ripken Sr. was fired in the beginning of April 1988, Cal broke Gehrigs Streak in September of 1995. So yes, a mere 7 seasons....but they knew "he was going to get the streak". Ignorance at it's finest, Cal nearly didn't resign with the O's after his Pops was fired. Yes, he did help resurrect the game. You forget he broke it a year after the strike right?
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I don't know, it just seemed like an awfully selfish record.
And the streak I think was a much more regional thing than the HR chase between sosa and mac...while I am sure cal breaking the streak helped, the hr chase of 98 is what truly brought the game back.
Honestly Ax, I dislike the birds as much as the next guy. But the O's for a long time had Cal and that was it. I mean, they didn't really get their prospects to either prosper with them, or even develop.
Was it selfish? Eh, I do think that if he had regularly rested his numbers would've been better imo. But even when he was slumping he continued to be a great fielder.
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food I had, but maybe not. we are proving this series that we can keep up with the elite, but can we make it to the big dance?
Me thinks Chase and Ryan have their dancing shoes on! Maybe Manual will get hit by a bus tomorrow!
Kevin
Must have been some pretty desperate times in Baltimore
for fans to get excited just because some tired has-been selfishly refused to rest when he was tired.
I mean ... could there possibly be a more boring record?
Hits, home runs, base running, diving acrobatic catches. That's entertainment.
Where's the drama and excitement in seeing an old man's name penciled into a lineup card?
I got some perfect attendance certificates from when I was in grade school. Think I'll run for mayor of Baltimore.
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hitting? Now if Brett could only get back on track!
JS
I am a huge Gehrig fan, yet there was not a day I didnt root for Ripken to break his streak. I still have the two full covers of the Baltimore Sun from the day after he broke it framed.
For the record, there were many days during Gehrigs streak where he should have sat out too. I dont have any numbers handy, but there were indeed several times where he started and was pinch hit for right after, just to keep the streak intact. Late in his career Lou was x-rayed and it was determined that he had 17 fractures in his hands alone. They " healed " while he continued to play.
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<< <i> was my sportscenter taken over by aliens? >>
No Kevin, they took you over the day you signed up for this websight.
So you're saying that Ripken was healthy every single one of those games, and that he wasn't knicked up, or tired, or plain ole disinterested in the game enough that he should have sat at least once?
<< <i>Axhole - you said that, not me. Same would go for Lou Gerhig. >>
I was asking you?
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and grote, its not just 'joe d haters', but I have read several accounts of the questionable scoring.
According to axhole a person can use the company time to surf the net so why would he admire what Gerhig and Ripken did?
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