otb_lifer
Footballguy
was watching a replay of Randy Johnson's perfect game last night, and the announcers blagged on about which baseball record is toughest to beat.
dude said that according to the oddsmakers, Joe D's 56 game hitting streak has the least amount of probability.
whaaa??
to me, it's Cy Young's 511 career wins - no one will ever come remotely close, you'd need to average 20 wins per year for 25 seasons to still be 12 short of breaking it. this will stand forever, so i won't include it in this pole.
so let's look at these 2, alongside the 56 straight ...
i think one that is tougher than 56 straight, and it's rarely talked about - Johnny Vander Meer's back to back no- hitters.
to break that record one would need to throw three consecutive no-hitters.
yeah, no.
i'll also toss Ripken's 2,632 consecutive games up in here, seeing as how that's gonna take the better part of 14 and 1/2 seasons of appearing in every game to break.
as far as Joe D's 56 straight, Rose threatened with 44, iirc - so he was in the ballpark -
but no pitcher has ever tossed back to back no hitters to even remotely challenge Vander Meer -
and Ripken more than doubles the cat in third place (we all know about Gehrig, but Everett Scott did hold the previous record with 1,307) ... the closest current guy was Alcides Escobar, who topped out at 421 straight - less than 20% of Ripken's mark.
sooo ... who ya got as toughest to beat after Young's 511?
dude said that according to the oddsmakers, Joe D's 56 game hitting streak has the least amount of probability.
whaaa??
to me, it's Cy Young's 511 career wins - no one will ever come remotely close, you'd need to average 20 wins per year for 25 seasons to still be 12 short of breaking it. this will stand forever, so i won't include it in this pole.
so let's look at these 2, alongside the 56 straight ...
i think one that is tougher than 56 straight, and it's rarely talked about - Johnny Vander Meer's back to back no- hitters.
to break that record one would need to throw three consecutive no-hitters.
yeah, no.
i'll also toss Ripken's 2,632 consecutive games up in here, seeing as how that's gonna take the better part of 14 and 1/2 seasons of appearing in every game to break.
as far as Joe D's 56 straight, Rose threatened with 44, iirc - so he was in the ballpark -
but no pitcher has ever tossed back to back no hitters to even remotely challenge Vander Meer -
and Ripken more than doubles the cat in third place (we all know about Gehrig, but Everett Scott did hold the previous record with 1,307) ... the closest current guy was Alcides Escobar, who topped out at 421 straight - less than 20% of Ripken's mark.
sooo ... who ya got as toughest to beat after Young's 511?