“If I’m in a slump I ask myself for advice.” – Ichiro Suzuki
Be glad I opened with a ‘wink and a smile’ quote from Ichiro. I almost went with a song and dance number – “one of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn’t fit in.”
Ichiro – like the great Albert Pujols – is having one of those seasons that ‘ just doesn’t fit in’.
After a decade of 200 + hit seasons (the high point being the record setting 262 in 2004) Ichiro is scraping the bottom of the barrel (yes, I am kidding about the scraping – bottom barrel or any other kind) this year with a meager 154 hits in 133 team games. He, like his brother immortal Albert Pujols, will have to hit like hell in his final 28 games if he wants the streak to extend past ten years.
You might be saying he has very little chance of pulling it off – and you might be right. I myself think it will be quite an achieveme...
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