Mr. 3,000: Ichiro and underrated feats
Posted on July 31st, 2008 – 12:50 PMBy Michael Rand
In case you missed it — and we did — Ichiro reached 3,000 combined hits in Japan and the Major Leagues with a trademark soft single earlier this week. He is only 34 years old. That is ridiculous, regardless of whether you think the hits from Japan are on par with his hits here (and by the way: he had 1,722 Major League hits in 1,224 games when he broke the record, while he had 1,278 in 951 games in Japan. That’s 1.41 hits/game here, 1.34 hits/game in Japan). So we ask this afternoon: What are some of the other most underrated accomplishments in sports history?
38 Responses to "Mr. 3,000: Ichiro and underrated feats"
Cal Ripkin Jr.’s career besides the streak.
The Twins front office not making a worthwhile deadline deal since 2003
Rand scoring one point in ping pong while using a two handed backhand
Nick Punto hitting .290 over a whole season.
Oscar Robertson averaging a triple double for a season.
ESPN actually reporting a trade amidst all of its breaking reports that “nothing is happening.”
S.U. Perrookie’s streak of appearing in the Strib in some sort of format. If it’s not a shot of shaved leg, it’s his ugly mug at the Thunder game. Media whore!
Drafting WR’s in the first 2 rounds of a fantasy draft and actually winning a couple of weeks.
I made a left-handed layup last week.
The Atlanta Braves winning 48 straight division titles.
The Cubs not winning a World Series in almost 100 years and still having a team.
Hey, wait a second…were you in the RandBall fantasy football league last year Jama? I don’t remember making fun of any Bears fans at the draft…
Dave Stieb losing two consecutive no-hit bids with two outs in the ninth.
Toonces
I wasn’t invited to participate in the RBFFL last year but it was discussed in great length on this here website that I am well aware of a certain individual drafting back to back WR’s with his first pick
Ndudi Ebi’s 0.8 PPG in his rookie season, and getting no love for R.O.Y.
- Britney Spears wearing underwear.
- T-Hud Selling 78 copies of his album the first week it was released.
- Spree’s family eating.
- Jon winning the RBFFL last year without a single hockey player on his roster.
roughkat: +2 - one for Spree, one for T-Hud.
Wade Boggs drinking 64 Miller Lite’s on a Cross Country flight.
Honestly though, Luis Castillo’s 143-game errorless streak was pretty cool.
(Who thinks to look that up?)
Roughkat: that is Ookie, media whore, rocking the specs and scarf look, yes?
Which 4 eyed scarf wearer are you refering to in that picture? There are like 4 of them.
Didn’t Castillo’s record get broken like 2 months later by Placido Polanco?
Yeah, so! it was still cool… for those 2 months!
Placido Polanco having a baseball career despite having a name more suitable for opera or ballroom dance
Yeah, so! it was still cool… for those 2 months!
FINE! Steve Garvey’s errorless streak of 193 games.
Stu - Yes, arms raised…
Jim Marshall still holds the record for fumbles recovered. And consecutive games played (punters do not count).
Paul Krause, career interception record holder.
Two Vikes holding career take-away records should get some mention.
I figured as much, but I made the mistake of thinking that there’s no way he’d show up in the paper again.
Most gallons of tears shed at a news conference to announce a retirement that everybody on the planet knew was bogus: 37 by Brett Fav-ray.
By the way, I told RandBall in a phone conversation a few weeks back that, since every bloated gasbag on television emphatically declared while pounding their fist on the table that there was no way that Fav-ray was going to end up with the Vikings, I was honestly beginning to believe that fate was destined to take a massive BM on those idiots and find a way to move him to Minny. We, as a society, are moving ever closer to a better place where the ill-bred, gap-toothed, goat aficionados on ESPN are being exposed for what they are. Keep saving your pennies for your purple #4 jerseys, ladies and gents!
IT looks like S.U.Perrookie wins the award for the Thunder fan with the biggest pit stains.
Keep saving your pennies matches & gasoline for your purple #4 jerseys, ladies and gents!
Fixed.
You go Rocket!
no one has mentioned Brett Favre for the most articles about him without anything really happening?
That’s because Manny Ramirez has been neck and neck.
save the gasoline for the Green jerseys roughkat…
by the way, what sweeter way to stick it to Wisconsin than, after stealing their legend from them, winning a couple of super bowls and convincing him to enter the Hall of Fame… NOT as a Packer, but a Viking??? not going to happen, but I know I’d die happy!
I will go, Ramon. I will go…in limerick!
Tho’ it may make them universally hated
Manny and Fav-ray’s egos’ are sated
With all of these will theys? or maybes?
Tho’ it makes them look like crybabies
But at least Manny finally got traded
COW
I’m already tired of number four
Not sure I can take any more.
Do we really want him on our team
If so I’m going to need a lot of Jim Beam
I don’t care how much they score
