Running 2011 Baseball Thread, Vol. I: Dedicated to spnited

i don't believe this fits the criteria, either, nut please keep playing.

 

Why not? Take Sunday alone when Tiger already was on his way to victory (as Jeter was going to get 3,000 hits eventually), and if we're looking at how a guy handled the coronation/victory lap, Tiger's performance is more memorable.

But I know, nothing that happens outside New York is as cool as what happens there, so I should just give up.

 

Juan Uribe just doubled with two outs in the ninth for the Dodgers' first hit -- off five Padres pitchers. 0-0 in the ninth.

 

And the Dodgers win it.

 

Thank you Juan Uribe (never thought I'd say that). You saved me from tearing up the front since we put all no-hitters on the front.

 

That's the kind of victory that will turn around the Dodgers season.

 

no, but i certainly admit to having an anti-golf bias when it comes to these discussions. in addition, i thought the criteria was going for a mark of compilation, i.e., over a season/career. the fact that for the life of me i have no recollection of this master's or tiger striving to win by however many strokes he won further adds to my admitted bias.

now, i tiger were to get to within 1 of jack's majors titles, that'd be cmparable to the ripken/3,000 hit/500 homer chase. in my mind, how many strokes a guy wins by is no more significant that the number of points a team wins by.

as for tiger's being 'more memorable,' i'd ask: memorable to whom? golf aficionados, perhaps. but the average sports fan? i'm a WAAAAY above-average sports fan who remembers this tiger thing not at all. and do those who do recall it know how many strokes tiger won by to 'set the record?'

unlikely. but if golf nuts really do cherish that as a record of significance, some sort of magic number, i bow to your expertise vs. my ignorance. in all sincerity. with all due respect.

 

Shockey, you don't have to be a fan of a given sport to understand the significance of a moment.

 

you're 1,000 percent correct. i was wrongly using 'as memorable' as part of the original premise, which it wasn't. carry on. y'all certainly know this subject much better than i do. in that situation, was tiger gunning for a record from the second round on? or just gunning for a master's title? again, i ask 'cause i don't know. is the number of strokes you win by that significant to players?

 

Yes. It is when you're that far ahead of the rest of the field, playing the same course under the same conditions. It's a pretty good indicator of dominance.

 

I usually measure my dominance by what's left at the local buffet after I pass through.

 

Luckily for Detroit, they drew one of two pitchers incapable of sitting on a 9-2 lead. Way to go Luke Hochevar.