We all grow at different rates, individually and collectively.
Sunday, July 31, 2016
Bryce Has Been Slumping, Tied with Ty Cobb in HRs
Although Bryce Harper is hitting in the .230s at the end of July and is having a disappointing campaign compared to his amazing 2015 MVP season last year, he still is inexorably moving up the charts of the all time home run hits. Ty Cobb was the original hit machine, and in the small Home Run era before Babe Ruth Harper has achieved that threshold of notability.
Also notably this year, 2016, the Nationals are in first place in their division 5-6 games ahead of the Mets and the Marlins, and Mr. Harper is still on pace to possibly break last year's Walk record. Which is no small thing. His hits need to improve; talk yesterday against the Giants was that the way his bat hits the ball is what needs improvement.
688.
Also notably this year, 2016, the Nationals are in first place in their division 5-6 games ahead of the Mets and the Marlins, and Mr. Harper is still on pace to possibly break last year's Walk record. Which is no small thing. His hits need to improve; talk yesterday against the Giants was that the way his bat hits the ball is what needs improvement.
688.
| Ty Cobb+ (24) | 117 | L | HR Log | |
| Kelly Gruber (10) | 117 | R | HR Log | |
| Bryce Harper (5, 23) | 117 | L | HR Log | |
| Jim King (11) | 117 | L | HR Log | |
| Chet Laabs (11) | 117 | R | HR Log | |
| Garry Maddox (15) | 117 | R | HR Log | |
| Miguel Montero (11, 32) | 117 | L | HR Log | |
| Dan Pasqua (10) | 117 | L | HR Log | |
| Tris Speaker+ (22) | 117 | L | HR Log | |
| Mickey Stanley (15) | 117 | R | HR Log |
| Tris Speaker is another Hall of Famer on this list, having played from 1907 to 1928, overlapping with Cobb (1905-1928) and Ruth (1914-1935). Cobb led the majors in home runs with only 9 in 1909, while Speaker was the best in 1910 with only 12. The Bambino did not lead the majors until 1918, hitting only 11! Similar to Cobb and Speaker. Then, of course, Babe Ruth went on to lead the majors in home runs 11 of the next 13 years, with huge end of the season tallies in the 40s and 50s, and amazingly hit his 60 blasts in 1927. Babe has only been surpassed by two players all time, Aaron (1954-1976)and Bonds (1986-2007) . Alex Rodriguez (1994-2013, 2014-) is currently at 696, with a slight but unlikely chance of passing the Babe's 714, in third place. Babe hit those 11 major league leading homers in 1918 at age 23, similar to Bryce's age now. Admittedly, Harper has to pick up his game a lot to rack up all those Ruthian numbers in a career path that has no guarantees. As I see things now, Harper may be lucky to get to 600 home runs all time, putting him in the top 8 or 9 all time. BUT YOU NEVER KNOW. An injury can end things tomorrow, or Bryce could go on a career tear like Sammy Sosa or Mark McGuire and shoot to the top. I think it will end up like in between ruin and greatness, with Bryce being better at batting average, on-base percentage, and no cheating (Palmeiro, Bonds, A-Rod), even though Palmeiro still denies it: Bryce should be in the pantheon of home run kings, along with current players Pujols, Trout, Stanton, and maybe 3-4 others. Carlos Correa? Nolan Arenado? Manny Machado? We shall see... |
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
We are Emails-- Electronic Mails: 21st Century Identity
Back in 1999 (before the turn of the current century) I got a job as a high school teacher. I had had a few email addresses over the years of the 1990s, mostly because of my association as a student at Indiana University. I think I got a type of email account way back in 1992. I did not use it very much that first year. Maybe I had one as a BYU student but I did not own my own computer. In the intermittent years living mostly in Utah, I would borrow other people's accounts and occasionally shot people messages from around the map, but I did not get involved again more regularly until I was enrolled as a student to be a teacher back in Indiana in 1998. I had one account, maybe I used it with my teachers about 4-5 times per week? Maybe I talked to a few people around the country? Actually, I do recall using my step-mom's account to get email from my friend in Utah ... I would borrow the service from her like people might borrow your cell phone today.
Fast forward to 2016: I have had at least 25 email accounts since then. Maybe more than 30? 40? I have lost count. Some of those accounts I still maintain now, some I have created in the last year related to the workplace. I worked overseas 4 years ago and I remember having an incredible number of emails: 3 personal, 9 professional. Each one had their own username and log-in password. Not to mention websites where I had enrolled and could interact on them, writing and interacting, like my high school forum or other places like sports or journalistic entries. And that does not count Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter and other social media.
12 email accounts. Sound kind of crazy? Welcome to the century, joe.schmoe44@email.org! I don't even want to tell you how many email addresses I have now. In my home I commonly use 4. One of them is useful because it "talks" to some Internet Browsers better than my hotmail account that I have had for at least 12-14 years.
Hotmail. Gmail. .edu .net. .org. .gov. Dot.com Dot dot dot.
I lot of my time, concentration, work, and history are wrapped up in thousands upon thousands of emails. Replies, reply-alls, forwards, cc-s, group-distro-s ... Dot DOT DOT.
Thousands and thousands are deleted and forgotten. I even have a couple of blogs (that are supposed to be somewhat permanent on a cloud somewhere) that have apparently been zapped out of existence. That was not expected. Should have backed them up.
Similar to house fires and floods, big moves and evictions where people destroy their memorabilia, we lose our past one Megabyte at a time.
How much remains? How much matters? Are all emails as valuable as the long distance chats that my mother had on the expensive phone lines back n the 1970s and 80s? Apparently so.
Or, if you do official and historical things for the US government or other important organizations, such as a current US presidential candidate widely known in our country and the world since 1992 (see that year again?), then maybe your emails will lead to more registry, recording, and official import to the Library of Congress and the history books. And the intelligence services of a dozen or more US friends and enemies that may care enough to collect them.
My point is, it is well past the half way point of the second decade of the century, and for now we are emails. I am made up of my emails. Well, of course, not entirely, but a good portion of my life is wrapped up with them.
Writing, responding, searching, signing, sending documents, communicating with bosses, pay rolls, friends, relatives, potential businesses, allies.
Emailing.
A few years ago I went to a distant state to work for two weeks, I had some down time to myself and I remember happily organizing and deleting thousands of emails that had been plaguing me for a while before. Now, two years later, I think my accounts have bloated again and I am not sure if I will ever get to to those old ones ... Maybe I should. One account on my cell phone says it is not accessible because of storage space. Hmmmm ...
Time to spend a few more hours cleaning up these crazy electronic mails from 2015, 2014, 2013 ... Maybe a few from before.
If you had asked me back in 1992 if Hillary Clinton would be close to becoming president in 2016 and I would spend up to 80% of many days dealing with emails, maybe I would say that both could happen in 2016, but which would be more probable?
Hillary. Yeah, the math makes some sense. Even to me in 1992. But emails? Electronic mails? Are you OUT OF YOUR MIND? Well ...
We all are. Emails. We are: emails. Emails ... are us.
edwardclinch.mvm@gmail.com
Fast forward to 2016: I have had at least 25 email accounts since then. Maybe more than 30? 40? I have lost count. Some of those accounts I still maintain now, some I have created in the last year related to the workplace. I worked overseas 4 years ago and I remember having an incredible number of emails: 3 personal, 9 professional. Each one had their own username and log-in password. Not to mention websites where I had enrolled and could interact on them, writing and interacting, like my high school forum or other places like sports or journalistic entries. And that does not count Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter and other social media.
12 email accounts. Sound kind of crazy? Welcome to the century, joe.schmoe44@email.org! I don't even want to tell you how many email addresses I have now. In my home I commonly use 4. One of them is useful because it "talks" to some Internet Browsers better than my hotmail account that I have had for at least 12-14 years.
Hotmail. Gmail. .edu .net. .org. .gov. Dot.com Dot dot dot.
I lot of my time, concentration, work, and history are wrapped up in thousands upon thousands of emails. Replies, reply-alls, forwards, cc-s, group-distro-s ... Dot DOT DOT.
Thousands and thousands are deleted and forgotten. I even have a couple of blogs (that are supposed to be somewhat permanent on a cloud somewhere) that have apparently been zapped out of existence. That was not expected. Should have backed them up.
Similar to house fires and floods, big moves and evictions where people destroy their memorabilia, we lose our past one Megabyte at a time.
How much remains? How much matters? Are all emails as valuable as the long distance chats that my mother had on the expensive phone lines back n the 1970s and 80s? Apparently so.
Or, if you do official and historical things for the US government or other important organizations, such as a current US presidential candidate widely known in our country and the world since 1992 (see that year again?), then maybe your emails will lead to more registry, recording, and official import to the Library of Congress and the history books. And the intelligence services of a dozen or more US friends and enemies that may care enough to collect them.
My point is, it is well past the half way point of the second decade of the century, and for now we are emails. I am made up of my emails. Well, of course, not entirely, but a good portion of my life is wrapped up with them.
Writing, responding, searching, signing, sending documents, communicating with bosses, pay rolls, friends, relatives, potential businesses, allies.
Emailing.
A few years ago I went to a distant state to work for two weeks, I had some down time to myself and I remember happily organizing and deleting thousands of emails that had been plaguing me for a while before. Now, two years later, I think my accounts have bloated again and I am not sure if I will ever get to to those old ones ... Maybe I should. One account on my cell phone says it is not accessible because of storage space. Hmmmm ...
Time to spend a few more hours cleaning up these crazy electronic mails from 2015, 2014, 2013 ... Maybe a few from before.
If you had asked me back in 1992 if Hillary Clinton would be close to becoming president in 2016 and I would spend up to 80% of many days dealing with emails, maybe I would say that both could happen in 2016, but which would be more probable?
Hillary. Yeah, the math makes some sense. Even to me in 1992. But emails? Electronic mails? Are you OUT OF YOUR MIND? Well ...
We all are. Emails. We are: emails. Emails ... are us.
edwardclinch.mvm@gmail.com
Sunday, July 10, 2016
Bryce Moving Up the Lists...Into the Top 700
697.
| Bryce Harper (5, 23) | 116 | L | HR Log | |
| Stan Lopata (13) | 116 | R | HR Log | |
| John Lowenstein (16) | 116 | L | HR Log | |
| Bing Miller (16) | 116 | R | HR Log | |
| Rank | Player (yrs, age) | Home Runs | Bats | HR Log |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rick Reichardt (11) | 116 | R | HR Log | |
| Chris Sabo (9) | 116 | R | HR Log | |
| Pablo Sandoval (9, 29) | 116 | B | HR Log | |
| 704. | Gene Freese (12) | 115 | R | HR Log |
| Don Hurst (7) | 115 | L | HR Log | |
| Travis Lee (9) | 115 | L | HR Log | |
| Jerry Lynch (13) | 115 | L | HR Log | |
| Craig Monroe (9) | 115 | R | HR Log | |
| Bob Robertson (11) | 115 | R | HR Log | |
| Shannon Stewart (14) | 115 | R | HR Log | |
| Marcus Thames (10) | 115 | R | HR Log |
Sunday, July 3, 2016
Harper Makes it to 714 All Time on Home Run List
The Nats team is playing okay; the other night number 8 in the lineup Danny Espinosa hit two dingers from either side of the plate for two in two innings, accumulating 7 total game RBIs, which breaks a franchise record for a guy in the 8 spot. Bryce was rested recently, too.
Here are the other guys who share 714 all time, notably yeoman Ichiro Suzuki after 16 years in the big leagues. Maybe he hit for more power in Japan.
714.
Here are the other guys who share 714 all time, notably yeoman Ichiro Suzuki after 16 years in the big leagues. Maybe he hit for more power in Japan.
714.
| Rafael Furcal (14) | 113 | B | HR Log | |
| Bryce Harper (5, 23) | 113 | L | HR Log | |
| Chuck Hinton (11) | 113 | R | HR Log | |
| Terry Kennedy (14) | 113 | L | HR Log | |
| Thurman Munson (11) | 113 | R | HR Log | |
| Lefty O'Doul (11) | 113 | L | HR Log | |
| Ichiro Suzuki (16, 42) | 113 | L | HR Log | |
| Fernando Tatis (11) | 113 | R | HR Log | |
| Greg Walker (9) | 113 | L | HR Log | |
| Paul Waner+ (20) | 113 | L | HR Log |
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)