I'm More Impressed with This

I've been away for a little while and apparently that is not a good thing since a few milestones have come and gone and one record has been toppled. Maybe I need to stop being so lazy and just get on with it.

OK. Barry Bonds just broke hammerin' Hanks Home Run record. I've already written about my feelings on that, you've probably read it, maybe not. Regardless, I am not a Barry fan, but what he did was impressive. Juiced or not, to hit a baseball like that takes some real talent. Nice work, Big Barr.

Tom Glavine won the 300th game of his illustrious career, becoming only the 23rd player in baseball history to accomplish that feat. Tom Glavine is one of the great guys in the game of baseball, a southpaw wizard that never threw the hardest or anything, but he can flat out pitch. And for those of you that don't know the difference, a pitcher who just throws is the norm. A pitcher can screw with batters heads repeatedly with a hodgepodge of different stuff so much so that it doesn't matter if you throw hard, as a batter, you just keep guessing. The latter is Tom Glavine. And even if he did beat the Cubs for his 300th, I'll forgive him.

A-Rod and his 500th dinger. Congrats, Alex. My link to A-Rod was when he and I were in the same issue of Baseball America as seniors in High School. He was headed to the Big Leagues for sure, anointed the best player ever at that time. I ended up a lowly schmo writer. Eh. Good job, Alex. Barry'll keep that Home Run record warm enough for you to pass him in about a decade, maybe sooner.