Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

So Sammy Sosa hit his 600th home run. Big deal. Are baseball fans supposed to do cartwheels for him? Did one of Sosa's teams ever actually win anything? For a guy who found "ways" to hit a HR every 15 AB during the regular season in his career - Sosa managed only 2 HR in 53 AB in the post-season (maybe he was coming off his cycles?). Sosa made over $123 million playing baseball. Baseball fans don't owe him anything - especially a place in the Hall of Fame when players like Andre Dawson and Jim Rice aren't in because the inflated stats of steroids guys devalued their real accomplishments... Today for some reason I actually was wondering, "Whatever happened to Kevin Pittsnogle?" You would think a 6'11" guy who can hit three-pointers could make it as the 11th man for some team... This recommendation has put the book John Marshall: Definer of a Nation on my must read list...