• tziller

  +1

  Incredible.

  Posted 8/2/2007 respond (flag)

• Erin

  +2

  Jennings did it without an arm guard.

  Hilarious. 

  Posted 8/2/2007 respond (flag)

The Onion: Craig Biggio Blames Media Pressure For Stalling At 285 Hit-By-Pitches
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Onion: Craig Biggio Blames Media Pressure For Stalling At 285 Hit-By-Pitches Looks like the pressure s getting to Biggio. More than anything, I just want to be hit by three more pitches so all of this will go away, said Biggio, who claims he has not slept in weeks and has developed multiple stomach ulcers. Now I know why Don Baylor quit at 267.

Final game at Turner
Plunk Biggio — ... In the news, the plunk chase has FINALLY been picked up by the true main stream media.

Baseball Today: Thursday, August 2
Projo Sox Blog — ... FUNNY STUFF: And finally this, from The Onion: "Craig Biggio blames media pressure for stalling at 285 hit-by-pitches." ...

Rounding the Bases: Breaking Records is Apparently Hard
Bugs & Cranks — ... Will Biggio just break this damn record already? [The Onion] ...

The Griddle: The Hughie Jennings Watch
The Griddle — I put it on the sidebar so you can track the progress, but Craig Biggio is running out of time in his quest to pass Hughie Jennings for the alltime HBP record. The Onion covered the topic better. Pedro Astacio hit Biggio the most times, 7. Biggio has been hit just three times this year, the lowest total of his career since 1991.

Tuesday Links (28 Jul 07)
Ducksnorts — ... Craig Biggio Blames Media Pressure For Stalling At 285 Hit-By-Pitches (The Onion, via ...

pointing fingers
Plunk Biggio — ... Obviously at the top of the list, you can blame me. We've all seen the stories in the news about how the media pressure of the plunk chase has ground it to a halt, and the clear record-setter for most words written about Craig Biggio getting hit by pitches is held by this website. Maybe I cared too much. Maybe if this site had never existed, no one would have noticed how often Biggio was getting hit by pitches and he would have been able to cruise past the record sometime last season. Instead, I had to make a big deal out of it and get everyone thinking about whether or not they WANTED the record broken - particularly the pitchers and umpires who could most effect the record chase. Then people some people got upset about whether or not wearing elbow pads should be allowed - and other people started getting bent out of shape about how hard a batter should try to get out of the way of pitches. Con ...