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- Feb 24, 2010 9:48 pm (#760 of 774)
The highest average ever for one-day games is a bit over 50. High individual scores are very tough to get in that form of the game, each side only bats for 50 overs and many risks must be taken to maintain a high scoring rate.
- Feb 24, 2010 9:53 pm (#761 of 774)
I don't think you can really talk about average cricket scores because there are differences in the type of cricket being played. For example, the best player in a 5 day test match might have a very low score in terms of runs, but stay in for a very long time, which is important.
The only way you can compare it is to say it is like being the first to achieve anything in any sport. So, if hitting 5 grand slam home runs in a game is something that has never been done before, then the first person to do it would be achieving something comparable.
- Feb 25, 2010 3:42 am (#762 of 774)
I guess the fact that people are all agog over it is proof enough that it's something special. But hitting five grand slams in a game has never even come close to happening. 2 is the record.
And I was younger then. 
The only way you can compare it is to say it is like being the first to achieve anything in any sport. So, if hitting 5 grand slam home runs in a game is something that has never been done before, then the first person to do it would be achieving something comparable
There's another factor involved here: the league in which the feat is accomplished. In the US, people keep very close track of statistics and records in the Major Leagues, the two top leagues -- which are becoming for all intents and purposes one league.
In the Major Leagues, 15 players have hit 4 home runs in one game. No player has ever hit 5 or more in one Major League game, and no player has hit 4 more than once in their career. I'm sure that somewhere in the history of minor-league and college and high-school baseball games, some players have hit 5 or more in one game, but nobody really much cares about that.
Barry Bonds never hit 4 home runs in one game. I would like to know how many games he got 3 home runs plus one or more intentional walks.
Top 10 season totals for intentional walks:
1. Barry Bonds 120 2004
2. Barry Bonds 68 2002
3. Barry Bonds 61 2003
4. Willie McCovey 45 1969
5. Albert Pujols 44 2009
6. Barry Bonds 43 1993
Barry Bonds 43 2007
8. Willie McCovey 40 1970
9. Barry Bonds 38 2006
10. Ryan Howard 37 2006
Most intentional walks, career:
1. Barry Bonds 688
2. Hank Aaron 293
3. Willie McCovey 260
4. Ken Griffey 246
5. Vladimir Guerrero 242
6. George Brett 229
7. Willie Stargell 227
8. Eddie Murray 222
9. Frank Robinson 218
10. Manny Ramirez 212
Sukey
- Feb 26, 2010 2:55 pm (#764 of 774)
I wasn't even going to watch the womens figure skating. But,Wow.
It was breathtaking.
What an incredible bunch of skaters, and what a pleasure to see such professionalism without all the ridiculous melodrama of the past.
without all the ridiculous melodrama of the past
Does that mean that this time around there were no clubbings?
Molly
- Feb 26, 2010 4:04 pm (#766 of 774)
Kim! Wasn't she something, though?
Her skate is somewhat buried here, under the story of Joannie Rochette. That's a shame. Joannie's skate was heroic, and a matter of great national pride, but Yuna's was in the amazing once-or-fewer per decade brand of memorable.
Sukey
- Feb 27, 2010 12:55 am (#767 of 774)
Yu-Na is going to be one of the those legendary skaters.
Sukey
- Feb 27, 2010 1:01 am (#768 of 774)
Steven - I can't believe how much skating has changed since the new scoring system, which is incredibly complex.
What happened last night was...magical. Breathtaking skating, both artistically and technically. It's hard to describe. Let's just say that it was all about the skating and none of the other crap.
Sasha Cohen is my secret girlfriend. Don't tell anybody. (Yeah, I know she's not in the Olympics this time.)
I just broke 1300 in blitz rating on the Free Internet Chess Server, something I long seriously doubted I would ever be able to do. (I've played chess on the Free Internet Chess Server, or FICS, more days than not for several years now.) 1300 is still pretty pathetic, but now I'm less pathetic than about 9000 of the 21,000+ players with active blitz ratings on FICS. My head is spinning. My blitz rating is 1301. That number just looks unnaturally huge.
And, as I've said before, the level of play on FICS is very high, and I believe that a 1300 rating on FICS reflects a higher level of play than a 1300 rating in the USCF.
Still pretty weak, but by my own personal standards -- huge. There may be less than 100 6-year-old chess players in the US who could beat me 4 games out 7 right now. That's just a wild guess, it might be a lot more than 100.
Marc-A
- Feb 28, 2010 7:11 pm (#771 of 774)
No snowmobiles? No cariboo hunting" What kind of winter sports is that!?
- Feb 28, 2010 7:18 pm (#772 of 774)
Congrats Steven. Sounds like you're moving up.
Pawn to Queen 4
- Mar 6, 2010 6:11 am (#773 of 774)
For the second time in a year, Steeler QB Ben Roethlisberger has been accused of attacking a woman sexually.
I don't know the details of this new charge, but you have to start to wonder about Roethlisberger's behavior. We all, myself included, gave Roethlisberger the benefit of the doubt when that woman accused him of rape last Spring. But two similar accusations in less than a year? That's a lot of smoke.
- Mar 7, 2010 3:23 am (#774 of 774)
Well, you know what the say. Throw enough shit at somebody and some of it's bound to stick.
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