Wednesday, September 07, 2022
Yankees beat Yankees
In 1961, Roger Maris of the Yankees broke Yankee Babe Ruth's record for home runs in a season, when he hit 61. As this baseball season creaks to a finish, it looks like another Yankee, Aaron Judge, may surpass it. Judge has 54 homers, which means he needs eight more in the remaining 27 games to break the record.
Judge is a pretty big guy-- 6'7" and 280 pounds-- who would make a pretty good football lineman, but has the incredible coordination it takes to hit a ball going 93 miles an hour. He's also pretty confident: at the start of the season he turned down a $200m+ contract extension, figuring he could do better after the season, and it looks like he was right.
Anyways, I still hate the Yankees!
