Comments on: 5 Streaks of Futility (And How They Finally Ended)

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:14:30 +0000

Also Ben –

Sorry to awake the Sleeping Dragon that is your internet statistician skills…

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:09:39 +0000

Your Highness Ben –

Allow me to extend to you my apologies for “driving you crazy”. Perhaps I should rephrase my previous comment as to unbunch your panties…

I have only heard of a walk as being “drawn”. To me, and apparently ONLY to me, “working a walk” sounds ridiculous.

By: Andrew_m86

Andrew_m86 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:05:28 +0000

You want to talk about streaks:

Maltese National Football (Soccer) Team in there over 100 year history they have one only one game for world cup qualifiers. Yet they try every year and are one of the oldest soccer federations in the FIFA.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:13:00 +0000

Michael Waltrip competed in and lost 463 consecutive races in NASCAR’s top division (now know as the Sprint Cup Series) from his first on-track appearance in 1985 through the 2000 season. He finally broke through into Victory Lane at the 2001 Daytona 500.

This achievement, however, was overshadowed by the death of seven-time champion (and Waltrip’s car owner) Dale Earnhardt in a last-lap crash.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:45:37 +0000

Jon — Of course you can “work a walk.”

Here are thousands of examples of reporters using that phrase:

http://news.google.com/archivesearch?um=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22worked+a+walk&cf=all

This is the first time I’ve ever left a comment on a blog or article. It drives me crazy when people leave dumb comments like that so I had to respond.

(Now back to following along silently.)

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:50:26 +0000

You “draw” a walk. Not “work” it.

By: Ant Baby Machete Squad

Ant Baby Machete Squad — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:19:03 +0000

“When Tyner finally sent a Jake Westbrook pitch over the wall in July 2009, he’d played in 390 career games for the Mets, Devil Rays, and Twins.”

We still love him, though, for inventing time travel.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:58:11 +0000

Rivera has not spent his entire career as a relief pitcher – he actually began his major league career as a starter in 1995:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/riverma01.shtml