WARNING!!! WARNING!! Annual off-topic baseball thread!!

[mick]

Originally posted by ChuckElias
Just trying to keep talking baseball here. A couple nights ago, my man Manny hit the 20th grand slam of his career. He's now in second place all time behind Lou Gehrig, who had 23. A lot was made of it on the overnight radio talk shows and I think it was mentioned on SportsCenter. I'm not trying to toot Manny's horn. I'm just curious if anybody really thinks that this is a real big deal.

I mean did anybody even know what the record was or who holds it? I didn't. Is there some particular skill required to amass 23 grand slams? Or is it just a matter of being a pure power hitter and getting enough ABs with the bases loaded?

Is this a big deal to anybody? It doesn't strike me as that big a deal, to be honest. But everybody talked about it so much, I thought I'd throw it out there.

Chuck,
Every grand slam is a big deal, from sandlot to MLB.
Approaching a record turbo-boosts the act.
Gehrig 1st, Manny (what-ever-his-name-is) 2nd? Yeah, Big Deal!!

Why?



"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball." - James Earl Jones, American Rhetoric: Movie Speech, "Field of Dreams" (1989)


mick