Jose and the Two Willies

[MFS62]

In the post game interview, Willie Randolph said what I was thinking when Jose hit the inside the park home run. He said "I wish he would have just crossed home plate standing up".
Sliding was unnecessary. Sliding head first was foolish.
But that big grin on his face when he crossed home plate sure made for a great Kodak moment.

The kid is fun,eh?

and

The only player in major league history who had 20 doubles, homers, triples and stolen bases in the same season was Willie Mays. Jose is getting close and it will be interesting to track this.

Question: Do you think Jose will join Mays with those totals by year's end?

Later

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

He needs two homers and four triples.

I think he may fall just short. My prediction: He'll get the homers but not the triples.

[metirish]

Reyes is the most exciting player in the majors...from the NY Posy article,this surprised me...

] No shortstop has compiled these numbers - average (.301), hits (172), doubles (27), triples (16), home runs (18), runs (113) and stolen bases (56) - in nearly 100 years. In 1908, inaugural-class Hall of Famer Honus Wagner (1936) offered up similar production with a .354 average, 39 doubles, 19 triples, 10 home runs, 100 runs and 53 stolen bases.

nice company he's keeping.

[MFS62]

Irish, so what that means is if Jose can't "be" Willie Mays, he can still be put in the same sentence with Honus Wagner?
I can live with that.

EDIT: Willie beats Wagner in one thing though, his smile. In most of the old pictures of Wagner I've seen, he had an expression on his face like he had just listened to five straight hours of Michael Kay and Suzyn Waldmann.

Later

[metsmarathon]

in his day, they didn't have bases. they had rocks. it helps you understand the dour expression.