History In the Making...?
Last night, i was watching Baseball Tonight, and they mentioned that today (Tuesday), there was the chance that three major milestones could be reached:
Barry Bonds hitting career HR #755.
Alex Rodriguez hitting career HR #500
Tom Glavine winning his career 300th win.
Well, that's sort of cool. I mention it because of that potential, but also because...it's not gonna happen. Predicting when a player will hit a HR is next to impossible (if not, then Bonds would have definitely hit one on his birthday last Tuesday, or on Sunday, his last home game and a tight sold-out affair.) And predicting wins is even harder. My guess is that none of these things occur, but I'd lean towards A-Rod being the one who does this if any do.
What's more amusing (to me, anyhow) is that the show then started talking about this "trend" of major milestones happening at the same time. As "evidence" they cited earlier this season, when Craig Biggio (3000 hits) and Frank Thomas (500 HR) reached their milestones on the same date. And, back in 1991 (I think), when Nolan Ryan (7th no-hitter) and Rickey Henderson (career stolen base record) reached theirs. And there was one other example I can't remember right now.
Um...that's not a trend. Things happeningin that kind of order are a coincidence (or, as Bugs Bunny called it, a coinky-dinky. If that helps.)
A coincidence is not a trend. Steve Berthiaume, are you paying attention?