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August 03, 2017
SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
posted by Mr Bismarck at 10:51 PM on August 03, 2017
Saw this on deadspin and my best guess is someone slapped the text boxes for "Most Hits - Players Born Outside US" over the pictures for "Most HR"?
posted by yerfatma at 10:02 AM on August 04, 2017
Saw this on deadspin and my best guess is someone slapped the text boxes for "Most Hits - Players Born Outside US" over the pictures for "Most HR"?
The pictures are "Most Hits - Players Born Outside US" (Ichiro, Carew, Palmeiro, Beltre, Clemente).
Rk Player H 1 Ichiro Suzuki 3060 2 Rod Carew 3053 3 Rafael Palmeiro 3020 4 Adrian Beltre 3002 5 Roberto Clemente 3000
The names are "Most HR - Players Born Outside US" (Sosa, Pujols, Palmeiro, Ramirez, Ortiz)
Rk Player HR 1 Sammy Sosa 609 2 Albert Pujols 608 3 Rafael Palmeiro 569 4 Manny Ramirez 555 5 David Ortiz 541
The fact that Palmeiro is middle picture/name for both lists is probably what confused the guy in charge of the graphics.
posted by grum@work at 03:44 PM on August 04, 2017
There are only 66 players in all of NBA history with a career free throw percentage greater than the percentage of seasons Bill Russell won an NBA championship (11 of 13).
posted by grum@work at 03:52 PM on August 04, 2017
The 6 Sutter brothers scored a combined 2,934 regular season NHL points. If Wayne Gretzky decided to make a comeback, he would need 78 points to pass them...
posted by MeatSaber at 06:54 PM on August 04, 2017
The 6 Sutter brothers scored a combined 2,934 regular season NHL points. If Wayne Gretzky decided to make a comeback, he would need 78 points to pass them...
Actually, he'd only need 74 points to pass them as the most points by a set of brothers, as Brent got four in his short career.
posted by grum@work at 07:26 PM on August 04, 2017