Wednesday, August 20, 2008

The unimportant milestone of the day brought to you by...

MLB.com! A story from baseball's website talks about Derek Jeter tying Roger Maris on the Yankees all-time home run list. Maris, who belted 61 in 1961 (conspiracy theorists never read into 61 in '61 - why not!?) to set a new Major League record, only ended up with 203 for his career. That's not very many. In fact, when Jeter was asked about tying Maris for 11th on the Yankees list, even he wasn't impressed.
"I guess I'm a home run hitter now, right?" Jeter said with a smile. "No, I don't hit too many. They're few and far between."
This sort of thing deserves a blurb in the game notes, not a full story.

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