Rest Of Baseball - 2016

[MDS]

The bat flip wasn't the problem.  It was the shucking and jiving around the bases and talking shtein to the opposition that earned him an ass kicking.

yea exactly...bat flip was really weak. all the other shtein was horrid.

i love showboating but you gotta do it right

[ice grillin you]

It was the shucking and jiving

oh my

[PhillyPhreak54]

I read that in George Takei's voice

[Rome]

I'm finding the whole Ichiro hits controversy to be quite amusing.   You have "analysts" screeching that the hits record doesn't really count because the first 1300 or so were in the Japan leagues. 

I'm fairly certain that if he had started in the Majors at the same time he did in Japan, those same hits would have occurred.  The guy was a farging machine. 

[Sgt PSN]

I'm fairly certain that your current employer doesn't give a farging about how well you performed at your previous job.

Do his Japan hits count?  Sure. In Japan. Don't mean doodie in MLB.

[Rome]

Someone forgot his Alzheimer's meds.

[ice grillin you]

the hilarious part of it is that i don't think there is a single person in the country at least not one that i have seen who thinks the hits in japan count and is claiming ichiro holds any kind of real record....so i don't really get why some people are upset about it

[PhillyPhreak54]

MLB hit record is for MLB

HOF Rose is still the king

[MDS]

ichiro will always be a fun what if game....what if he had spent his 22-27 year old seasons in mlb, not japan. how close would he be?

i have no problem unofficially considering him the hits king. pete rose is a top 5 worst human ever. hank aaron still unofficially is the hr king.

[QB Eagles]

When you look at the stats, it's easy to project that Ichiro would have more hits than Rose if he was in the MLB system the whole time. He wasn't though, so who cares?

Rose is the Hit King. In every other sense, including as a complete baseball player and as a human being, Ichiro is better and it's not particularly close. Ichiro won't begrudge the old icehole his record.

[Rome]

So wait, are you dumbasses really suggesting that if Ichiro was in the Majors during those years he played in Japan, he wouldn't have been at least equally successful hitting the ball?   I mean really?

In a 12 year stretch from the ages of 27 to 36 he averaged 224 hits per year. 

As a 37 yr-old he had 184 hits and as a 38 yr-old he had 178.

Pete Rose is and has always been scum.  I have no problem calling Ichiro the hit king.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yeah projection schmection...he wasn't in the USA so it doesn't matter

[Rome]

Make America Great Again, amirite?!?

[PhillyPhreak54]

Heil Trump!

[ice grillin you]

really looking forward to stras kershaw tonight in hundred degree weather