Ken Griffey Jr - Announced Retirement
Seattle Mariners - DH Ken Griffey Jr. announced his retirement, effective at the end of his sentence describing said retirement.
While the Y2K bug didn’t turn out to be a big deal, the imagery dancing through the mind of Griffey haunted him in the 21st Century, the grim visions of the death and decay of humanity, doomed on a probabilistic path to not duck all upcoming apocalyptic events, and caused him to be depressed, resulting in constant injuries due to his existential crisis and the decline of his self-worth. As a result, Griffey only managed 192 homers in the last decade of his career. I think that’s what happened - I’m not terribly bright.
Even as a mild disappointment, Griffey’s an easy 1st-ballot Hall of Famer. If a particular sportswriter doesn’t vote for him for the Hall, I feel Griffey is within his rights to punch that fellow in the mouth, collect the teeth, and wear them as a necklace.
If asked 20 years ago who the last remaining player from the 1980s would be, wouldn’t you have thought the answer would be Griffey? I certainly did. There’s a really good chance now that the last player remaining from the 80s will now be Jamie Moyer. There’s no words to describe how insane that would sound in 1989 - it’s the equivalent of someone arriving in a time machine and telling you that the Chocolate Rain guy ended up becoming the Best President in US History.
Dan Szymborski
Posted: June 03, 2010 at 03:25 AM |
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1. Hang down your head, Tom Foley Posted: June 03, 2010 at 04:56 AM (#3549034)Actually it was a big deal. I don't know what the final accounting was but an enormous amount of energy and money was spent on remediation to fix the problem before it hit. It's not a bad example on how forces can be mobilized against a known, common threat.
It's a shame we can't mobilize something about that oil spill but I guess it's a little harder to f*** with Mother Nature than to make sure your year fields are 4 characters and not two.
45 HR in 1993
Wonder how data happened...
The knowledge that it could and would be fixed is part and parcel. After all, that's why we don't fear strep throat anymore.
Why don't we drill wells around well zero, then detonate explosives and cave in the problem well? Like sapping an underground tunnel. I presume there's a reason this isn't happening, and perhaps that reason is that it would take a long time to drill those countervailing wells, but this seems eminently sensible to me.
Griffey was the most enjoyable player I ever watched. I will miss watching him in his prime.
As for Moyer... it has to be 30 players or so born after his debut at this point?
born in 1986 (after 6/16): 31
1987: 26
1988: 11
1989: 4
1990: 1 (Starlin Castro)
Anyone else heard of this? or is it just Gammons being his normal petty, ########-spreading self?
I was at that game!
McGwire hit a homerun and drove in all of the A's runs, IIRC. I was 8 so I can't really be held accountable for the details.
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