“It would be an honor,”....“If it fit into my life situation, I’d love to do it.”

This needs to become a meme.

This needs to become a meme.

The risk of potential litigation from the people behind the Whitey Herzog meme is too great.

Yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of Shawn Green hitting 4 home runs against the Brewers.

4 home run game link.


Edit: Interestingly enough, Cesar Izturis led off and played shortstop for the Dodgers.

This needs to become a meme.

If it fits...

For those who are curious (like me), here are the 7 records that Green holds or is tied for according to Wikipedia:

Most home runs in a game (4)
Most extra base hits in a game (5)
Most total bases in a game (19)
Most runs scored in a game (6)
Most home runs in two consecutive games (5)
Most home runs in three consecutive games (7)
Most consecutive home runs (4)

He gets a lot of mileage out of that 4 HR game, but he followed it up with 3 HR in the next two games. He also hit 2 HR two days before, for 9 HR in 5 games. I would be surprised if that is not also a record.

He gets a lot of mileage out of that 4 HR game

His most recent Twitter post agrees:

I'm getting more mileage out of that one day in Milwaukee than the other couple of thousand games combined!

He was a pretty darn good ballplayer from age 25-29, and his defense wasn't terrible back then...more or less average.

Too bad about the shoulder injury. Cost him 100 homers probably.

A year or two before Green got traded from the Dodgers, the LA Times was doing a story on steroid use in baseball. So one of the Times reporters walks up to Green and asks him point blank if he used before. Green in response just pulls of his shirt, and rubs his belly and said a skinny guy like him couldn't even put on the pounds of muscle if he tried.

I took a day off the day of Green's 4 HR game while in living in Milwaukee, some friends and I (we all had a 40 pack at Miller Park) and yet we didn't have tickets to this game, and we went to play golf instead. The only upside of missing this game, was shooting a 75 at a pretty tough track.

I liked Shawn Green, so I'm not saying the article is a bad one.
But that story, mrams, is better than the OP.

False. There is no such thing as a good golf story.

False. There is no such thing as a good golf story.

Would you rather hear about his fantasy team ?

I'm getting more mileage out of that one day in Milwaukee than the other couple of thousand games combined!

He's self-aware.

Nine HRs in five games is ridiculous.

I took a day off the day of Green's 4 HR game while in living in Milwaukee, some friends and I (we all had a 40 pack at Miller Park) and yet we didn't have tickets to this game, and we went to play golf instead. The only upside of missing this game, was shooting a 75 at a pretty tough track.

Took me several reads to understand that you weren't saying that you and your friends each drank an enormous amount of beer.

He's self-aware.

He wrote a book about self-awareness...

Perfect for a semi-religious Jewish casual baseball fan in search of a Zen-lite guidebook…or maybe just Blue Jay, Dodger, Met and Diamondback fans who remember Green’s playing days fondly.