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Connie Mack managed the As for 50 years
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If you wanna talk about records that can't be broken, look no further than the Big Dipper.
Here's a few of his records, no one will ever break:
Keep this in mind, that's the "short list"!
- 100 points in one game
- 55 rebounds in one game
- only center to lead the league in assists
- averaged 51.2 ppg for an entire season
- fucked over 20,000 women
Connie Mack managed the As for 50 years
The 56-game hitting streak will inevitably fall. This Abreau kid recently hit in 40 of 41 games or something like that. It has nothing to do with playing for the love of the game, it's just numbers. Given enough activity, the record will fall.
It does not appear that anyone will bat .400 again, and the reason has nothing to do with the hitters, it's relief pitchers. Today's batters are facing a relatively fresh, skilled pitcher virtually every time up. In the time before 1950, starting pitchers tended to finish their own games and were tired after the sixth inning. Also the batters had seen them a couple times in the early innings and were better equipped mentally to hit in the later innings. Relief pitchers were old, washed up pitchers and unproven rookies. batting .350 today is more of an accomplishment than batting .400 in 1925.
And science/statistics. The batters are analyzed to an extent never before even dreamed of. Pitchers know everything about a hitter before the game starts. What location the hitter likes, what pitches give him problems, whether he swings at the first pitch. In the past, this information was basically learned from an informal Rumor Mill, and they only bothered with the best hitters. Now it is KNOWN for virtually every batter in the lineup.
20-win seasons and 300-win careers may be done for unless and until some major changes are made in how the game is managed.
Yeah, but did Ted Williams ever get Marilyn Monroe?A 56 game hitting streak is a statistical anamoly that doesn't necessarily correlate to better play. You could theoretically go 1 for 4 every day and keep the streak alive
Ted Williams got more hits and more HRs during that 56 game stretch. Doesn't that mean he performed better?
Yeah, but did Ted Williams ever get Marilyn Monroe?A 56 game hitting streak is a statistical anamoly that doesn't necessarily correlate to better play. You could theoretically go 1 for 4 every day and keep the streak alive
Ted Williams got more hits and more HRs during that 56 game stretch. Doesn't that mean he performed better?
Defense rests, Your Honor!
Maybe his coke, but not his head.Did Joe get his head cut off?
I am predicting right now, the Yankee Clipper's 56 game hitting streak will be broken, within 5 years from now.We've heard the old saying before-Records are meant to be broken.I think thats true for SOME of them out there but not all.When the patriots went into their first superbowl against the Giants I was mentioning that to my friend how if they win that superbowl,they will break the miami dolphins 1972 record for most wins in an undefeated season while winning the superbowl as well.Thats when he mentioned that to me saying back then-"Records are meant to be broken."
When he mentioned that,I then told him something that I think is safe to say is true mentioning a baseball record that never will be broken. thinking about that conversation from back then I recently thought of some other baseball records as well as that one I would say its a very safe bet will never be broken.
The dolphins 1972 undefeated season for example,I honestly think will someday be broken.That someday some team will go undefeated in a 16 game season and win the superbowl as well and thats because if not a for an incredible miracle catch by that Giants wide receiver in the superbowl on fourth down,the pats would now be able to talk about being the only other team in NFL history besides the 1972 dolphins to go undefeated in a regular season and win the superbowl.they were that close. "on a fourth down pass no less." to making history.
The baseball record i was referring to earlier in my conversation i had with me friend back then that I said will never be broken is this one.
Joe Dimaggios 56 game hitting streak.Here is why.
Look who has come the closest to it since then.Pete Rose back in the late 1970's. He has come the closest to it falling 12 games shy having his streak stopped at 44.since then,nobody has even come as close to it as Rose did. I knew if Rose did not do it back then.that at this time in my life I would be talking about it that nobody else will ever break that record.that it will stand all time forever.
This is the reason nobody will ever break that record.again look who came the closest to it.Pete Rose,another hall of famer and easily one of the very best of all time.Nobody ever played the game harder than he did going all out everyday sacrificing their body the way he always did.He really loved the game and his play on the field showed that everyday.
Players these days,they dont play the game hard and go all out anymore like players in his day and age did.He was a rare gem you'll never find again.Players these days play the game for the love of the money instead of the love for the game.Those players like Rose and Dimaggio who played it for the love of the game just dont exist anymore and thats the fault of the owners for paying them so much.
Here are other baseball records I guarantee will never be broken as well.
1.speaking of Pete Rose,lets not forget his all time hits record of over 4000 hits.4000 a record nobody has come close to yet.will never happen either because players like Rose who played it for the love of the game instead of for the money just dont exist anymore.
2.This may not be a record,i think there were others before his time,that hit over the 400 mark with a higher average then him which is ted williams 406 mark.Williams was the LAST player to hit over 400 and its an easy guarantee to say that he will be the last one to do it since same old song and dance,players just dont play the game with passion for the love of the game anymore. the closest to come to williams 400 mark is George Brett.another future hall of famer and another rare gem who played the game for the love of the game instead of the money who also went all out and sacrificed his body everyday.He came the closest in 1980 hitting 390.
Players before williams time hit over 400 at times because of the hard work they put into it since they loved the game so much.Players these days,when they get that high up to the majors and get offered those multiple millions,they lose their drive to work as hard as they did on their way up. they still work hard,but nothing like they used to on their way up.
3.Last one that you wont see broken is Iron Man Cal Ripkens consecutive games streak.When he set that record,he of course broke another hall of famers record in doing so breaking fellow Iron Man Lou Gerig's record for most consecutive starts.Both played the game for the passion and love of the game which you dont see anymore.
All those players mentioned of course with the exception of Rose,all played their entire careers with one team.they stayed with one team because money wasnt something they thought about back then.Rose toward his last days in philadephia got relaxed and stopped working as hard as he once did but then he came back to cincinnati and got rejuvenated again and went back to playin it for the love of the game.He was the only exception of those bunch who stopped playing it hard because of the money but that was VERY brief.
speaking of that,I was just watching a game the other day and it disgusted me hearing how one of the batters who grounded out to third base,halfway there to first he gave up running the announcer said.
The announcer then went on to say that that player when he hits an infield grounder like that,tends to give up trying to beat it out.Then saying had he kept on running full out,he might very well have made it.
man how disgusting. NONE of those players mentioned ever got to that point where they stopped trying to beat out a ground ball in the infield.
Back in that day and age that Gerig,williams,dimaggio,Brett and Roses played,back in THEIR time,those days were unheard of back then. George Brett remarked about that himself how towards the end of his playing days it disgusted him seeing new players that were coming up watching them give up halfway to first base nit always running all out to try and beat it out.
there are way too many players like that now which is why NONE of those baseball records will ever be broken.
And just who will be the one breaking this record?
Two words......................MIKE TROUT!
ok.... all I got from the op was. this record will never be broken because of................... hard work.
The one record, I know for sure will never be broken, is Johnny Vander Meer's back to back no-hitters.
Some one may tie that record, but it will take 3 no-hitters in a row to beat it. Good luck with that.
Trout or cabrerra being power hitters they are,their chances are MUCH greater of breaking hank aarons modern day record for most home runs in a career than they are of breaking dimaggios record especially in a day and age when the ball is juiced.
Trout or cabrerra being power hitters they are,their chances are MUCH greater of breaking hank aarons modern day record for most home runs in a career than they are of breaking dimaggios record especially in a day and age when the ball is juiced.
Well, since they won't let the players juice anymore, they had to make up the power numbers somewhere....
Seriously, if a player were to get around 40 games in a row, with a hit, the media attention would be so overwhelming, their concentration would be greatly damaged.
Will someone beat 56? No.
Will someone ever hit .400 again? Yes.
Will someone hit 74 HR's? Yes, his name is Jose Abreu, when he learns to hit, he might be the man to hit 100.
Will someone ever break Cy Young's records? Someone already did, his name was Satchel Paige. The Cy Young award is wrongly named, it should be the Satchel Paige award.
Should Kennesaw Landis be in the hall of fame, when players like Rose, Bonds, and McGuire are not there? Oh HELL NO! He was the biggest racist in the history of baseball, and he has a spot there, damned hypocrites.
Is there another Iron Man somewhere in waiting? Nope, those days are over.
Who will be the first ever player to go into the hall of fame as a Houston Astro? Craig Biggio, unless the stupid writers screw that up again. They need to reform the voting for that.
Any more questions?