Biggio Needs to Break One More Record

unlikely. he's only been hbp 3 times this year so far.

 

Or start wearing the padding again.

 

That would be nice but I hope he gets past Ricky Henderson with 3,055 hits, 16 more, that will put him 20th on the list. He needs 9 more home runs for 300 career. He needs 7 more doubles for 8th and 10 more doubles for 7th all time. I wish he would stay anther season so he could be the only player with 3,000 hits, 300 home runs and 300 HBP! Doesn't look like it will happenn though. Get 16 more hits that include 9 home runs and 7 doubles and hopefully gets hit 3 more times! That would end the last month of his career on a great note.

 

i sure hope bgo doesn't read your posting, or he will change his mind to play another year to get those milestones you mentioned.

 

I'm sure he'll lie awake at night cursing himself for not being 7th on the all-time doubles list.

 

I have to admit being very disappointed the Bidge won't pass Jennings. Not that it matters for anything, but it's just one of those cool things.

 

i know it's been posted before, but it belongs in this thread:

Craig Biggio Blames Media Pressure For Stalling At 285 Hit-By-Pitches
August 2, 2007 | Onion Sports

HOUSTON—The intense pressure and scrutiny that comes with attempting to break Major League Baseball's all-time hit-batsman mark, a once-thought untouchable record that has stood at 287 for over a century, came to a head yesterday when Craig Biggio lashed out against the media, blaming an avalanche of news coverage and reporters' ceaseless questioning for his recent hit-by-pitch slump.

Biggio has not been struck by a pitch since July and has stalled at 285, while Hughie Jennings' awe-inspiring, much-revered record—set during a playing career that spanned the decade from 1893 to 1903—seems to be getting further and further out of reach.

"You guys perpetuated this by comparing me to Hughie day in and day out," said a chain-smoking Biggio, showing reporters from over 50 media outlets the bundles of hate mail he has received from baseball fans. "Listen to these people: 'Quit now before you break the hearts of fans everywhere, Craig.' 'Hey Craig b****, I'll kill you and your family if you break the record.' 'Jennings did it without an arm guard.' Do you think they had even heard of this guy before you people had my countdown on the front page every day? Jesus Christ!"

"More than anything, I just want to be hit by three more pitches so all of this will go away," said Biggio, who claims he has not slept in weeks and has developed multiple stomach ulcers. "Now I know why Don Baylor quit at 267."

Though Biggio has refrained from comment on what national media outlets have dubbed "The Chase" for the majority of the season, last night's outburst was more than likely a reaction to a special guest editorial in this week's Sports Illustrated. The Tom Verducci-penned piece stated that, no matter what numbers eventually appeared in the "total hit by pitch" column, Jennings and his "magical" 51 hit-batsman season of 1894 could never be dethroned as baseball's all-time hit-by-pitch king.


All-time hit-by-pitch king Jennings
"Craig Biggio has played nearly 10 seasons more than Jennings—that means he has had the opportunity to be hit by hundreds of thousands more pitches," Verducci writes. "It's a regrettable fact that, like it or not, baseball fans will have to accept that Craig Biggio will ultimately be hit by a baseball more times than Hughie Jennings. But he will never, ever bring the same amount of excitement to being hit by a pitch that Hughie did."

The final line of Verducci's article read, "Craig Biggio: All-Time Hit-Batsman Leader. Just doesn't sound right."

According to ESPN baseball analyst Tim Kurkjian, the main difference between Jennings and Biggio is that, in Jennings' playing days, he was universally adored by fans in all eight baseball cities. Kurkjian notes that, perhaps unfairly, Biggio's attempt to break the record has only been embraced in Houston, evidenced by the enormous "Hit By Pitch" countdown sign in left field and by the fireworks that are set off every time Biggio is beaned.

"True, Biggio is booed in every major-league ballpark other than his own," Kurkjian said. "But this is not just a historic record we're talking about here. It's a fairytale of a record, a romantic ideal almost, a high-water mark set by one of baseball's most well-known figures. Naturally, there is going to be a backlash."

"And as far as I'm concerned, the arm-guard argument can be saved for a later time. The key for Biggio is to block everything out, play Craig Biggio baseball, and wait for his pitch. The wild fastballs and the non-breaking curveballs will eventually come if he's patient."

With over 50 games remaining, Biggio has ample time to break the record, though there are several tangible factors that can be blamed for his recent stall. Most significant is the simple fact that the closer he gets to the immortal mark, pitchers around the league have been throwing to, instead of at, Biggio.

"No one wants to be the guy who throws that record 288th bean-ball," New York Mets pitcher Tom Glavine said. "From this point on, when Craig comes up to bat, he is only going to get pitches he can hit. Still, I am sure some pitcher will make a mistake, and serve up a wild pitch on a silver platter. When that happens, Craig will definitely know to lay into it."

"After all," Glavine said, "he is one of the all-time greats."

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/craig_biggio_blames_media_pressure

 

He was sixth when you posted yesterday; he's now tied for 5th with George Brett, if I'm reading correctly.
 
<table width=230 cellspacing=0><tr><th bgcolor=yellow colspan=3><b>Career Doubles</b></th></tr><tr><td>1.</td><td>Tris Speaker-HOF</td><td>792</td></tr><tr><td>2.</td><td>Pete Rose-HOF</td><td>746</td></tr><tr><td>3.</td><td>Stan Musial-HOF</td><td>725</td></tr><tr><td>4.</td><td>Ty Cobb-HOF</td><td>724</td></tr><tr><td>T5.</td><td>George Brett-HOF</td><td>665</td></tr><tr bgcolor=white><td><b>T5.</b></td><td><b>Craig Biggio</b></td><td><b>665</b></td></tr><tr><td>7.</td><td>Nap Lajoie-HOF</td><td>657</td></tr><tr><td>8.</td><td>Carl Yastrzemski-HOF</td><td>646</td></tr></table>

 

Sorry; I thought I saw "11:48 am" in your post. My bad.

 

If you look at Biggio's stats he is a sure fire hall of Famer! It's so funny when you look at career doubles leader. You see the hit's leaders. you see the steals leaders. You see his at bats. And everyone of those guys is in the Hall of Fame. And Biggio is in the lead of the pack. Come on, he is number 5 on the all time doubles hits list. He is probably going to get to the 20th hits all time guy. His RBI's are high. His runs scored are high.


But you hear people out there in the Sporting world, ehgg North East and bunch of wankers up there. And they debate wether Biggio is as good as their guys.

Irony is that Biggio is from the North East, but since he didn't perform all of his accolaids for them "Wankers" they've basically disowned him. And they say all of his stats are not note worthy. They say he didn't make all of the all-star appearances like Cal Ripkens. But his career stats are so similar to Ripkens; if you were shown both of their career stats and you didn't know what type of player you'd get I would pick Biggio. Biggio has like 450 steals compared to Ripkins 39 or so CAREER Steals. Sure Ripkins has like 430 homers, but Biggio is 9 shy of 300.


The travesty of not giving Biggio that respect that Ripkens got. Sad




But, Biggio endured. He was productive. And heck he is up and beyond better than Burke; the apparent heir at 2nd base. Biggio isn't a lead off guy, but he can still put up numbers. One more year Biggio, how bout it.

Tear down some more records, and do it without any of those guys on your corner. And now the Northeast Sports Writers including the wannabe New Yorker Dallasinian Journalistics realize they missed out on Biggio and his career building numbers that eclipse HOFamers with all of the pub.

 

I love Bidge, but he'll be Willie Mays ca 1973 out there if he comes back. He's done. He made a good decision to retire when he did--he's an absolute shell of his former self in the field, at the plate, and on the basepaths.

Were Bidge to come back, he'd be absolutely hammered in the media, and his poor stat line for the year would get much more play than his 300th home run or his 286th (or whatever the number is) HBP.

 

Whose respect do you want? Fans from random cities the Astros don't regularly play in or the ones who actually play/played this game? You seem pretty upset that some random radio jock is talking smack. So far the only person on ESPN that has said anything like that has been Skip Bayless(sp?) And even that chick started talking smack to Skip after some comments he said on the subject. I can't remember who was on the show with him but was a player who played against Biggio. He had nothing but respect for Biggio and got pretty upset when Skip started blabbing.

BTW You do know that alot of these radio jocks were saying siimilar things about Ripken in his final years. "He shoulda hung the cheats up years ago." "He wasn't good enough to be a starter for his final years." "Batimore is playing on his name and the young guys are being setback because of it." All thatstuff.

You shouldn't be concerned about Biggio getting respect. He has been honored in several opposing stadiums, I lost count. That doesn't happen all that often. So it's pretty obvious that he's getting respect from the ONLY place it matters. His competition.

 

300/3000 would be pretty awesome.