Comments on: George Brett’s company sued over false medical claims

By: voodoochili

voodoochili — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:44:28 +0000

Brett averaged 19 HR’s, not 15, and that’s over a very long career where he had less power at the end. He had a season of 30 HR’s (back before the era of steroids and new band-box stadiums), and hit 20+ HR’s in a season 8 times.

Plus, there’s more to being a “slugger” than just HR’s. There are more kinds of hits than just singles and homers. He had 30+ doubles in a season FOURTEEN times! He led the league in triples three times. His career slugging percentage is higher than all of the following “sluggers”: Gil Hodges, Carlos Pena, Bill Dickey, Fred Lynn, Eric Davis, Andre Dawson, Yogi Berra, Cliff Floyd, Cecil Fielder, Jeromy Burnitz, Kent Hrbek, Bobby Abreu, Pedro Guerrero, George Foster, Al Kaline, Dave Kingman, Greg Luzinski, Roger Maris, Eddie Murray, Johnny Bench, Jack Clark, Leon Durham, Dave Winfield, Eric Chavez, Jorge Posada, Bobby Bonilla, Don Mattingly, Tino Marinez, Bobby Bonds, Dave Parker, George Bell, Dale Murphy, Hideki Matsui, Joe Carter, Kirk Gibson, Miguel Tejada, Carlton Fisk, Frank Thomas… etc.

By: patg1041

patg1041 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:10:14 +0000

Just doing you a favor. If I was using a word incorrectly, I’d want someone to correct me. Youre welcome.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:40:33 +0000

If you were any shallower, you’d be translucent.

Oh yeah, and stay classy, why dontcha?

By: patg1041

patg1041 — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:28:56 +0000

You know, it’s funny. For all of your pompous, pretentious, faux intellectualism, I’m almost positive that you literally have no clue what the definition of the word hypocrite is. You say that anyone who criticizes Josh Hamilton for his drug and alcohol abuse is a hypocrite. If I was an alcoholic that was criticizing him, then you would be correct. I however am not an alcoholic, nor am I a drug user, so I am free to criticize him all I want on that particular issue. Now, if you want to call me an asshole, that is a completely subjective assessment with no right or wrong answer. So go to town man, go to town. But in the mean time, go fuck ya self.

By: mooseinohio

mooseinohio — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:54:39 +0000

Calling him a singles hitter may have been too limiting but 317 homers over 21 season works out to 15 per year, not quite enough to be in the running for the Silver Slugger Award.

By: Kevin S.

Kevin S. — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:44:17 +0000

Since when do 317 career HR and a .183 ISO make you a “singles” hitter?

By: sportsdrenched.com

sportsdrenched.com — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:06:26 +0000

There used to be a law like this. Except it was universal and not just limited to our fair republic. It was called Survival of the Fittest. If you make dumb decisions…nature had a way of ending your dumb behavior.

By: cur68

cur68 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:29:07 +0000

Man I hope so. I’ve always wanted to pull rank and tell someone else to deal “go with that sh*t, I got other problems”. Although, given that he seems to be pretty post mature, I don’t think he’ll be anywhere near me.

By: The Rabbit

The Rabbit — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:19:41 +0000

Just what I was thinking, except the lawyers will probably get more than a million.
I think we should lobby for a “Right to be Stupid without Expecting Compensation” Constitutional Amendment.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:16:30 +0000

With your luck, they’ll wheel him into your ward and you’ll have to put the rubber bands back in place.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:15:19 +0000

Sure. Just go back to the most recent Josh Hamilton thread and you’ll find plenty of them.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:13:22 +0000

It was, but fortunately there’s an ancient holistic treatment for torn pastrami. You just pack it in chopped liver, cole slaw and Russian dressing and bind it with two slices of rye bread (with seeds – very important).

By: delsj

delsj — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:25:59 +0000

Class-action lawsuit means what – that 1000 people will get a settlement check each for $19.95 and the lawyers will get a quarter-mil?

By: cur68

cur68 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:03:17 +0000

Ole Poopy Pants gettin’ sued, eh? Well, just sue the shorts offa him. That’d be a losing cause.

By: micker716

micker716 — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:41:04 +0000

All of these current hitting records are meaningless until MLB institutes magnet testing.

By: bigleagues

bigleagues — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:31:57 +0000

Perhaps he should have another cocktail.

By: sportsdrenched.com

sportsdrenched.com — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:04:17 +0000

I’m going to sure George Brett for emotional trauma.

-Goose Gossage

By: kiwicricket

kiwicricket — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:59:26 +0000

Sounds painful.

By: Tyree Studio

Tyree Studio — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:47:58 +0000

Dang-you Matt Adams! I read this post and was itching to make a hemorrhoid comment and you beat me to it!

By: Tyree Studio

Tyree Studio — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:46:16 +0000

How many of these necklaces and bracelets does a person have to wear to get into the BSOHL?

By: mooseinohio

mooseinohio — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:10:39 +0000

Hall of Fame slugger George Brett? When did the former batting champ I grew up watching go from being high average, singles hitter to a slugger. Maybe his defense attorney can argue they are suing the wrong person.

By: PanchoHerreraFanClub

PanchoHerreraFanClub — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:43:58 +0000

Isn’t character one of the criteria for the HOF? Where oh where are the sportswriters crying to get him thrown out? Didn’t the pine tar thing make him a “cheater” just like the PED users? Aren’t there any hypocrites left?

By: Matt Adams

Matt Adams — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:42:59 +0000

I felt like a Pine Tar joke would be too obvious, so I had to dig a little deeper.

Oops!

By: sportsdrenched.com

sportsdrenched.com — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:36:27 +0000

I’m going to sue George Brett because we had to play the rest of that supid pine-tar game.

-Billy Martin

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:35:57 +0000

Nonsense. By wearing a couple of George Brett magnetic bracelets, I was actually able to get my broomstick to carry my water for me.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:32:46 +0000

You can be forgiven. Put a quarter in the tithing box, throw three Hail Marys, and go and sin no more.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:31:15 +0000

I don't know. I wore a couple of those things and it took my wife an hour to pry me off the refrigerator. Tore the pastrami pretty good in the process, too.

By: Matt Adams

Matt Adams — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:27:41 +0000

I bought some George Brett jewelry and I couldn’t sit for a week.

Sorry.

By: bloodysock

bloodysock — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:26:07 +0000

These are complete hocus pocus. Everyone knows the Phiten titanium necklaces and bracelets are the real cure all.

By: kopy

kopy — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:16:43 +0000

It’s unnerving how many people buy into this things. If you’re consciously aware of the placebo effect, superstitious, or just like how they look that’s one thing. But they’ve done scientific testing with magnets more powerful than we can imagine, and found no medical effects on humans. There’s nothing that results from wearing a refrigerator magnet on your body.