700 Club

An informal poll of our staff shows that 100% of us believe that Pat Robertson is an asshole.

But we didn't come here today to talk about that 700 club. We want to discuss the 700 homerun club because it is about to have a new member. This new member will bring the total number of members to three. Any club that has only three members is either incredibly lame (just like our website has about 3 readers) or incredibly difficult to join. Only two (soon to be three) baseball players have every hit 700 homeruns in the careers. They are

Hank Aaron...755 HRs
Babe Ruth... 714 HRs

Bonds now has 699 career HRs.
The next closest active player is Sammy Sosa with 539 HRs. So this 700 home run thing is a big deal.

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Ichiro update! Ichiro now has 231 hits this season. The all-time record for hits in a single season is held by George Sisler who had 257 hits in 1920. Ichiro needs (mental math...) 26 more hits in 20 games to tie the record.

Again, we all feel this stuff is super cool even if you don't like or follow baseball. This kind of thing doesn't happen every day in any sport or any other thing that humans keep track of and all that stuff.