Griffey Hits Number 600

My favorite baseball player from 1993 until the Reds sabotaged his career was Ken Griffey, Jr. Don't get me wrong I still consider myself a huge fan of his but damn he could have been SHATTERING records he is still no schmuck.

From 2001 to 2004 he only hit 63 round trippers. Imagine if he had hit just an average of 35 HR's in those 4 seasons. That is 140 HR's minus those 63 is 77. That means that with an average of a "measly" 35 HR's he would be at 677 and be on the verge of 700 already. That is without even thinking about if he had also been healthy the last 3 years.

What 20 something year old male today didn't absolutely watch this man's every move as a child.

Well, congratulations to Ken on a great accomplishment. I know we are all rooting for him to hit 700 in the next several years.

Red Sox first round pick likes Khaled

The Red Sox first round pick yesterday was Casey Kelly. Kelly is from Florida (thus explaining his affinity for DJ Khaled). He is a shortstop and a pitcher. On top of that he was a top 30 QB prospect according to ESPN.

More imporantly Kelly's MySpace page has surfaced. His background song is DK Khaled's new song and he has a good looking girlfriend. That is the way it should be but there are some other notable things I found.

Someone from Pawtucket left this message for him shortly after he was drafted. Classic. ---------------->

But maybe the best thing is below:

Who he'd like to meet?
"Mike Vick , any Victoria Secret model, LC from laguna beach and you"

Haha, that's some good stuff. Mike Vick... hilarious. Victoria Secret model... of course. LC... questionable.

Some more from Kelly:

About me:

"My name is casey kelly i play football and baseball for the saliors. Sports come very easy to me. i like to hang out with friends and listening to nice ass music.My favorite number would have to be 9 all the greats wear it.haha.... i am just trying to pass" highschool so i can go to college.if you like what u read hit me up on sargey9k@aol.com

Screw college huh?

Randy Johnson is good

Randy has been around since the heyday of those great, everyone's childhood favorite, Seattle Mariners teams. Taking a look at his statistics show just how impressive a player Johnson truely is.

He is second all-time in strikeouts and there is no player in the top-100 that has any type of chance at coming even close. Randy is also first among active pitchers in the hit batsmen category and he is third all time.

Seriously, check out that career ERA and those 288 career wins. Only 12 away from 300, as if he wasn't a shoe in Hall of Famer anyway.

Second base shockers

It doesn't look like Lance Berkman is going to slow down anytime soon but how amazing is it to see two second basemen, Dan Uggla and Chase Utley battling for the first and second place in the National League home run standings.

Anyone who participates in fantasy baseball can attest to this; second base is the weakest position offensively in recent years.

In my league I drafted Uggla in round 16 out of 21 to backup Chone Figgins.

Besides Utley in round 1 there was only a handful of 2nd basemen taken in the next 10+ rounds, showing the uncertainly at the position.

The Josh Hamilton Saga

I guess we should have seen this one coming, Hamilton had a solid half season last year in Cincy. He hit .292 in 90 games with 18 HR's and 17 doubles.

Not that no one is following this but what a story...

A drug addicted athlete with potential superstar talent who was selected #1 overall by the Devil Rays (back when they were the Devil Rays) has a breakout season.

The only thing that could make this more interesting (besides a tripe crown run) would be if he falls off the wagon.

Omar Vizquel still plays?

I brought Omar up to a buddy the other day because I saw that he was leading off for the Giants and I thought that was peculiar.

He has only played 14 of 51 games for the Giants this year but this week he become the MLB's all-time leader of games played at short.

I never thought I would be talking about Omar but stranger things have happened.