How's Todd Hundley doing?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Any notion that he'll show up for a brief handshake photo-op ceremony if and when Carlos Beltran breaks his Mets homer record?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I hadn't thought of that, but it would be kinda nice. I don't know that there's that much awareness (among the fans) of club records, though.

[Guest Edgy DC]

You've got to figure those are great little junkets for former players. Your record is about to be broken, but nobody can say when, so they send you some plane tickets, bring you town, check you into a hotel, and every day the record isn't broken, they extend your hotel stay --- courtesy bar, sauna, gym, sushi, whatever, in exchange for you giving them a brief moment of faded glory mixed with humility.

For a swinging ex-player, perhaps divorced, all that plus hanging around the ballpark all week, maybe visiting the broadcast booth, it must be like the playing days all over again.

Of course, if you're self-aware and confronting the realities of aging and the emptiness of the self-indulgent jock lifestyle, a week alone in a courtesy suite must be Hell.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

The way CB's going, a visit to Denver and Houston may be all he needs to return to Shea with the record already broken.

I searched for recent Todd Hundley news only to come across (not literally) a story telling of how Paul & Sonia LoDuca, in better times, were witnesses to the famous Todd v. Tiffany Hundley bout in the Shea lobby.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I remember how a few years ago, a Tigers pitcher (forget who) was closing in on 20 losses, and Brian Kingman (the last 20-game loser) managed to thrust himself into the story, wanting to be present when the feat was achieved again.

I don't recall, though, if the team's manager (Alan Trammell, I guess) ever let the pitcher take the mound with 19 losses.

[metirish]

Jeremy Bonderman went 6-19 in 2003 his rookie season,ouch.

[Guest Edgy DC]

If I accurately recall, Trammell and Bonderman kept grinding away and, like the Tigers themselves, staved off 20 the right way.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Todd, you dawg!

[seawolf17]

Edgy DC wrote: If I accurately recall, Trammell and Bonderman kept grinding away and, like the Tigers themselves, staved off 20 the right way.

But Mike Maroth couldn't stave it off, finishing 9-21 in 2003 and shutting Brian Kingman's piehole for good.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

So much for Brian Kingman's piehole!

I seem to remember Kingman not being welcomed into the picture. I suppose Maroth didn't see 20 losses as something to celebrate.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ah, yes. Where'm I going that I remember the day Kingman lost 20 and not Maroth's duious matching of it 22 years later.