tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12957770.post1843390865266710273..comments2023-11-02T09:11:50.194-04:00Comments on The Crime Time Cafe: More Baseball..Stevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06511395415516451829noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12957770.post-51070860878241289912008-01-11T01:00:00.000-05:002008-01-11T01:00:00.000-05:00Clemente would have made it if he'd finished with ...Clemente would have made it if he'd finished with 2,999 hits. The real question is whether he would have made it had he died in a car crash rather than on an earthquake mercy mission.<BR/><BR/>He would have, though after the normal waiting period and without such a flood of emotion and schools being named after him and the like.<BR/>===================<BR/> Detectives Beyond Borders<BR/>"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"<BR/> http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12957770.post-13737986589822884122008-01-10T21:05:00.000-05:002008-01-10T21:05:00.000-05:00OK, Steven, let's keep arguing. Here's what Rob N...OK, Steven, let's keep arguing. Here's what Rob Neyer, the ESPN writer, has to say about Rice's candidacy:<BR/><BR/>"Was Rice the "dominant slugger of his time"? Of course he wasn't. In Rice's time, slugger Mike Schmidt hit 548 home runs and won three MVP Awards. In Rice's time, Reggie Jackson hit 563 home runs. Rice hit 382 home runs. <BR/><BR/>"He did amass 400 total bases in one season, which is impressive. Roger Maris once hit 61 home runs in one season. Rice did hit 35 homers with 200 hits in three straight seasons, which is impressive. It's also only three seasons. And in all the rest of his career, Rice topped 35 homers exactly once more and never did get 200 hits in another season. So really, it seems that Rice's entire case, his time as a dominant hitter, rests solely on three seasons....<BR/><BR/>"Rice's supporters like to cite the elections of Perez and (especially) Orlando Cepeda, but those were mistakes. Seems to me if your case relies upon repeating mistakes, you might ought to take a new tack."Keith Raffelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02926077627965529183noreply@blogger.com