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Originally Posted by Mr. Xevious
and just to point out, there were 23,688 innings total in Ripkens' record. he only played 34% of his games consecutively. This of course is not counting extra innings which no way in hell I am going to research that 
I still believe that Gherig played all his 2130 consecutively. |
I'm pretty sure Ripken played 100% of his games in his consecutive game record consecutively. Or it wouldn't be a record.
And if you ment to say "34% of the innings consecutively", you're wrong again, because you're only looking at the consecutive innings from his record for consecutive innings. 34% implys that before and after that record, he *never* played two innings back to back. I'm sure there were plenty of games in the iron man record where Cal played all 9. Far more than 34%.
And there's no way Gehrig played every inning of every game in his record. I'm even willing to bet that he missed a game or two in there, but in that era records weren't 100% accuratly kept, but who would come forward to say otherwise? Now I'm not implying that Ripken's the better ball player than Gehrig... Gehrig is probably one of the top 5 players in the history of the game... I'm just saying Ripken's record is the most fanstatic thing I've ever seen. Partly due to what it meant to baseball, which at the time was at a low-point due to the '94 strike. You could say Ripken saved baseball with that record.
As far as Canseco's 40/40... Ripken's record started in '82, Canseco's 40/40 was in '88. Also, I don't believe the 40/40 was all that influenced by 'roids. You don't steal 40 bases when you're all loaded up on juice... you lose too much flexibility/speed on that stuff. '88 was probably more like the 1st year people started getting into 'roids, which is why 40/40's don't happen any more even though 40 homeruns aren't even special anymore.
Finally, what does Cal's brother's rare Fuck Face card have to do w/ the scale of Cal's record?