Big Brown Or Jockey!

I just about this story on the wire and had a good laugh.  The horse’s trainer, Rick Dutrow Jr. is blaming Big Brown’s last place finish on the jockey – Kent Desormeaux.  Come on, are you kidding me!  Instead of honestly believing that the horse just didn’t have it at the end, we blame the jockey.  Here’s the kicker, the trainer doesn’t object to Kent Desormeaux riding Big Brown in the next scheduled race.  He wants to leave that decision up to co-owner Michael Iavarone.  What I think is that it’s no ones fault, the house ran out of gas.

One Of The Greats!

Ken Griffey Jr. has final reach the mark of 600 homeruns in his career.  This homerun like most of all his others was a perfect swing.  Once the ball hit the bat, he and everyone else knew hit was homerun # 600.  Griffey stood to admire his 600th homer before rounding the bases.  I would have stood and admired it also.  There are just a few that have hit more than 600 homeruns in their careers.  It’s a matter of fact; he has become only the sixth player in history to reach that mark.  I have posted in the past on the 600 homerun club, here it is again, *Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Sammy Sosa and now Ken Griffey Jr.  Griffery said, “I don’t think I touched any of the bases. I sort of floated around”.  In my book, and most other’s, Griffey is one of the last Great’s to play this game we call baseball!