Wow. I’m sorry, I know a lot of people are nuts over Cal Ripken, but that strikes me as one of the most horribly lame things I’ve ever heard if it’s true. What a spoilsport. Giving up the hidden-ball trick? C’mon, guy.
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Wow. I’m sorry, I know a lot of people are nuts over Cal Ripken, but that strikes me as one of the most horribly lame things I’ve ever heard if it’s true. What a spoilsport. Giving up the hidden-ball trick? C’mon, guy.
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My question is how exactly would it come back to hurt the team somehow?
Ripken’s actions sound similar to A-Rod allegedly tipping pitches in blowout games. He’s tipping off opposing players to help himself (so they’ll do the same for him so he won’t be embarassed by a hidden ball trick), while hurting his teammates.
I never followed Ripken that closely but perhaps he was always a huge douche, and his breaking of the record just over shadowed that and made everyone think he was the greatest guy alive.
I’m glad Kevin Costner slept with his wife.
Sorry to break this to you:
http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/costner.asp
Sometimes I choose to ignore snopes and just go on believing that the urban legend is true. This is one such case. The Costner myth is just too perfectly random, hilarious and conspiratorial.
The last time the hidden ball trick was successful, the Red Sox won the World Series in 2007. I don’t think it hurt them at all…
Ripken believed that stealing signs, framing pitches, phantom tags, etc were unethical. The hidden ball trick thing is not a surprise. As a former ballplayer I always tried to find an edge… Of course I was never THAT good so I had to do that to succeed