Good For Griffey

Ken Griffey Jr. hit career home run #600 tonight.

When I was a kid, there were three guys that had ever hit 600, Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron and Willie Mays. Back then, before steroids, 500 was something really special. 500 was a mortal lock. Now 500 is peppered with some unscrupulous characters and and you have Sosa and Bonds above them.

600 is still special and Griffey is one of the good guys.

Here is a quote from Joe Posnanski’s blog.

There’s a baseball agent I know who has been with Ken Griffey Jr. from the start, from before the start. One day, Ken Griffey Sr. said to him: I trust you, and I would like you to represent my son. They have been together now for 20 years, through glory and injury and a few boos, through frustration and joy and impossibly bright lights and 600 home run trots.

“Has he changed at all?” I asked the agent. He thought about it for a moment.

“Not really,” he said.

Go read what Joe has to say, it’s guaranteed to warm your heart.

Tags: babe ruth, Baseball, Hank Aaron, joe posnanski, ken griffey jr, willie mays

"Good For Griffey" by Pribek was published on June 9th, 2008 and is listed in Baseball.

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Pat Barnsmell and Goats wrote,

what are the chances?
Exhibit one: K. Griffey, jr.
Exhibit two: everyone else

1 in 7,467,588,234,978,435,999,235

Pat Barnsmell and Goats’s last blog post..MooPig’s Homage to the Greats — Tensegrity or Hyperbolic; that is the question

Link | June 10th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,

Some folks in the city by the bay are in a bit of an uproar over a dessert at Zuni that was nothing but a nectarine on a plate, with a price tag of ~~$8.00~~ $4.50. A couple of things to point out.

1) …response from Zuni:
Yikes! If the customer who posted this photo was charged $8.00 for the nectarine it was definitely an error. We would love the customer to contact us with their receipt and we would be more than happy to refund the entire amount for the fruit. Checking our menus, the Blossom Bluff Summer Grand nectarine was on our dessert menu from July 29-31st for $4.50

It’s reminiscent of a famous anecdote about the “good hit / no field” baseball legend Babe Herman. Some friends were criticizing his fielding skills, claiming that on more than one occasion, he had been hit on the head by a fly ball. He disputed the claim, and vowed that if he ever got hit on the head by a fly ball, he would quit baseball. His friends asked him if getting hit on the shoulder counted, and George thought for a minute and said “No, on the shoulder don’t count.”

… $4.50 is still a bit pricey for a stonefruit rolling around on a plate, not as embarrassing as getting hit on the head, but still embarrassing.

[source: HERE]

Eat a Peach = in SF about $4.50 to $8
Baseball Card of Ken Griffey Rookie Year = $65,000 …still has the bubblegum scent = $65,000.50
a Babe Ruth Bar = about $0.90
Sharing old baseball stories about Ken Griffey with each other = priceless…

Link | August 23rd, 2008 at 8:09 am