Comic Relief
Taking a break from the intense and meaty topics we’ve discussed over the last few weeks (abortion, race, race & abortion, the colossal stupidity of Sens. Hillary Clinton, John F. Kerry and John Edwards to name a few, the liberal media’s obsession with words the President never spoke and the liberal media ignoring words the leading Democratic candidate for President actually did speak, and the hate-mongering of Sen. John Edwards’ paid campaign staff), I give you my commentary on something that had the sports world all abuzz this week: Frank Thomas and his pursuit of joining an “exclusive” club.
On the left is a list of all the members of Major League Baseball’s 499 career home run club. On the right, is the club Mr. Thomas joined yesterday by hitting his 500th career home run. I put the lists next to each other so you can better see how the “exclusivity” of the clubs changed.
(Please forgive the formatting issues I'm having with the column on the right; it a blogger.com limitation.)
Old Club - 499 ---------- New Club - 500
Hank Aaron ----------- Hank Aaron
Barry Bonds ----------- Barry Bonds
Babe Ruth ------------- Babe Ruth
Willie Mays ------------ Willie Mays
Sammy Sosa ----------- Sammy Sosa
Frank Robinson ------ Frank Robinson
Ken Griffey, Jr. ------ Ken Griffey, Jr.
Mark McGwire -------- Mark McGwire
Harmon Killebrew ---- Harmon Killebrew
Rafael Palmiero -------- Rafael Palmiero
Reggie Jackson -------- Reggie Jackson
Mike Schmidt ---------- Mike Schmidt
Mickey Mantle ---------- Mickey Mantle
Jimmie Foxx ---------- Jimmie Foxx
Willie McCovey ------- Willie McCovey
Ted Williams ---------- Ted Williams
Ernie Banks ---------- Ernie Banks
Eddie Mathews ------- Eddie Mathews
Mel Ott ---------------- Mel Ott
Eddie Murray ---------- Eddie Murray
Taking a break from the intense and meaty topics we’ve discussed over the last few weeks (abortion, race, race & abortion, the colossal stupidity of Sens. Hillary Clinton, John F. Kerry and John Edwards to name a few, the liberal media’s obsession with words the President never spoke and the liberal media ignoring words the leading Democratic candidate for President actually did speak, and the hate-mongering of Sen. John Edwards’ paid campaign staff), I give you my commentary on something that had the sports world all abuzz this week: Frank Thomas and his pursuit of joining an “exclusive” club.
On the left is a list of all the members of Major League Baseball’s 499 career home run club. On the right, is the club Mr. Thomas joined yesterday by hitting his 500th career home run. I put the lists next to each other so you can better see how the “exclusivity” of the clubs changed.
(Please forgive the formatting issues I'm having with the column on the right; it a blogger.com limitation.)
Old Club - 499 ---------- New Club - 500
Hank Aaron ----------- Hank Aaron
Barry Bonds ----------- Barry Bonds
Babe Ruth ------------- Babe Ruth
Willie Mays ------------ Willie Mays
Sammy Sosa ----------- Sammy Sosa
Frank Robinson ------ Frank Robinson
Ken Griffey, Jr. ------ Ken Griffey, Jr.
Mark McGwire -------- Mark McGwire
Harmon Killebrew ---- Harmon Killebrew
Rafael Palmiero -------- Rafael Palmiero
Reggie Jackson -------- Reggie Jackson
Mike Schmidt ---------- Mike Schmidt
Mickey Mantle ---------- Mickey Mantle
Jimmie Foxx ---------- Jimmie Foxx
Willie McCovey ------- Willie McCovey
Ted Williams ---------- Ted Williams
Ernie Banks ---------- Ernie Banks
Eddie Mathews ------- Eddie Mathews
Mel Ott ---------------- Mel Ott
Eddie Murray ---------- Eddie Murray
posted by Zack at 11:27 AM
4 Comments:
lol funny
What's yourpoint?
now for the FUN! one man's view of whether club membership = Hall of Fame membership: Aaron (y), Bonds (n), Ruth (y), Mays (y), Sosa (n), Robinson, (y), Griffey, jr. (y), McGwire (n), Killebrew (y), Palmiero (n), Jackson (y), Schmidt (y), Mantle (y), Foxx (y), McCovey (y), Williams (y), Banks (y), Mathews (y), Ott (y), Murray (y)
anonymous, my point is that the sports media has just as many idiots as the entertainment media (1 trillion stories on a spoiled hotel chain heiress) and liberal, "news" media. Basically, the media is full of idiots is my point.
As opposed to yours truly who is quoted by the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court . . . see my post of June 29.
hardball, I agree on all counts. The taint of steroids producing the 4 (n)s.
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