what's more impressive to you

[Chi_archie]

100 point's in a game by the big dipper
triple double AVERAGE over a full season by the big O
56 game hitting streak by joltin joe
back to back no hitters by vandermeere
*insert hockey stat I don't know* is it 199 points?



add your own awesome sports accomplishment

[ryanXL977]

29 threads on sunday, january 11th, 2009 by chi

[UntilTheNDofTimE]

triple double average

[pico]

9

[MilfDriller]

ryan choosing an import wife bc he's got a 2" wacker to fit his wife's 2.3" vaginal canal

they're the happiest dog and cat cooking family in the world

[losturmarbles]

arch has a new pt job

[13th Inning]

100 points and 56 games are pretty damn impressive, IMO.

I also like 31 lengths... Secretariat in the Belmont, 1973:

[Mudcat]

*insert hockey stat I don't know* is it 199 points?

Single season point record is 215 by Wayne Gretzky but that's not the one I will point to.

What is most impressive to me is that Gretzky had a 6 year stretch where he had more assists than anyone else had points. And he had a few goals in there too. Nothing but 50+ goal seasons in fact. The single season record of 92 goals occurred during that stretch.

But he didn't need them to out-point everyone else.

He also has more career assists than the next guy on the all-time scoring list has points. And Gretzky is the career goal leader on top of it.

It is all about dominance. The most impressive things to me are always about dominance.

Again, these numbers may not be exact but one year Babe Ruth hit 59 home runs and the next closest guy had, like, 18. Stuff like that is impressive to me.

[rjt721]

Kobe's 81 is much more impressive than Wilt's 100.

[betplom]

Single season point record is 215 by Wayne Gretzky but that's not the one I will point to.

What is most impressive to me is that Gretzky had a 6 year stretch where he had more assists than anyone else had points. And he had a few goals in there too. Nothing but 50+ goal seasons in fact. The single season record of 92 goals occurred during that stretch.

But he didn't need them to out-point everyone else.

He also has more career assists than the next guy on the all-time scoring list has points. And Gretzky is the career goal leader on top of it.

It is all about dominance. The most impressive things to me are always about dominance.

Again, these numbers may not be exact but one year Babe Ruth hit 59 home runs and the next closest guy had, like, 18. Stuff like that is impressive to me.

I wish I had access to that info when I was debating Santoro about Gretzky vs Lemieux, of course I was backing the great one.

[c-rok]

Kobe's 81 is much more impressive than Wilt's 100.

Agree here, and I don't see it being close either.

My pick from the ones mentioned is averaging a triple double, that's just insane. Maybe the most unappreciated sports accomplishment of all time. The Gretzky stats are ****ing impressive also, good stuff mudcat.

[Shortstop]

56 game hitting streak or back-to-back no hitters. I'd have to give the lean to back-to-back no hitters.

[AMBlai01]

I really think that the Hitting streak is the by far the most impressive...because of the different variables such as even getting pitches to hit...the other guys definitely were going to get their chances. There was no assurance that Joe was going to.

[Casperwaits]

56 Game hitting streak is amazing.
Back to back no hitters unbelievable
Me getting a hot girl to sleep with me when she was sober was priceless

[Chi_archie]

should add 7 no hitters lifetime...

lotta season stats in baseball from the early days that you can throw out as untouchable..but it was a different game back then...Pitchers threw 9 innings every 3rd day with no relief

[Mudcat]

I wish I had access to that info when I was debating Santoro about Gretzky vs Lemieux, of course I was backing the great one.

Gretzky's freakish dominance was so consistent it almost became routine. Guys start looking around for Devil's Advocate arguments in favor of other players.

Believe me, I'm not going to say anything bad about Mario Lemieux. Pictures of that Canada Cup winning goal at Copps Coliseum (assisted by Gretzky of course) will be forever etched in my brain. In the rather important points-per-game stat, Lemieux is not far behind Gretzky. But he is behind, and he simply didn't have the prolonged dominance that Gretzky's career had.

[13th Inning]

Yeah some of those early baseball records are ridiculous.

680.0 innings pitched for a season, with 75 complete games in 1879!

http://www.baseball-reference.com/w/whitewi01.shtml

[Chi_archie]

Cal Ripken's record is pretty ridiculous too

[daggerkobe]

Nomo's no hitter at Coors Field in Denver. Don't see it ever happening again.

Also Nomo was 1 of only 4 to pitch a no hitter in both the NL and AL.

[Mudcat]

If you get into Olympic type sports, there are some amazing things.



Edwin Moses won 122 consecutive 400m hurdles races, most of them against the very best in the world, over a 10 year period.

That ain't bad.



I'm sure any pole vaulting aficionado could find a few superlatives for the career of Sergei Bubka. There are probably a bunch of ways to present his accomplishments that would be mind-boggling. For one thing, he set the pole vault world record 35 times.

[WhatAboutMeBitch]

Hank Aaron's home run record... that will never been broken

[daggerkobe]

Uh, it's Barry Bonds' HR record now.

But A-fRod should break that since he's only 209 HRs behind.... even if he avgs only 35 HRs, he'll break it in 6 seasons. He's only 32.

[WhatAboutMeBitch]

Barry who?

I'm talking professional baseball here MLB, not women's softball

Arod won't make it... his body will breakdown he doesn't sleep enough, too many women

[tullamore]

56 game hitting streak.

[daggerkobe]

Barry who?

I'm talking professional baseball here MLB, not women's softball

Arod won't make it... his body will breakdown he doesn't sleep enough, too many women

[Chi_archie]

speaking of bonds... 71 hr's without steroids will be damn tough.... his walk records, oba,..also pretty amazing

[WileOut]

Tough to say. All were done in complete different eras than today. If these guys played against todays talent their records would not be there. Imagine Wilt playing today against Yao Ming. He wouldn't approach 50 points in a game. What was the talest player guarding him the day he scored 100, anyone know?

[Richkas]

Nothing compares to Tiger Woods great year.

[c-rok]

Hank Aaron's home run record... that will never been broken

50 years from now Hank Aaron probably won't even be in the top 10 for all time HR's...Barry already has the record and A-Rod will smash the record very soon with tons of young guys having the ability to top Aaron as well.

[Chi_archie]

Tough to say. All were done in complete different eras than today. If these guys played against todays talent their records would not be there. Imagine Wilt playing today against Yao Ming. He wouldn't approach 50 points in a game. What was the talest player guarding him the day he scored 100, anyone know?

good question I know they played the knicks... willis reed wasn't there yet I don't think..

amazing thing about that game is that wilt had 4 teamates also score in double figures and another had 9.

and I can't remember if the knicks had 3 or 4 guys score 30 or more points... but it was a barn burner game.


Wilt no doubt was ahead of his time...but I think he'd still do okay in today's game.. he was very athletic, track star at Kansas..
played professional volleyball after b-ball... super strong for his thinner frame.

Guy averaged over 50 points a game for a season!!!

also one year he led the league in assists just to prove a point

[Chi_archie]

Ricky Henderson's Stolen base records...season and all time will prob never be broken

[Nicky Santoro]

I wish I had access to that info when I was debating Santoro about Gretzky vs Lemieux, of course I was backing the great one.

plommer, i dont care what you say and don't get me started, but Super Mario was a much more talented player than the Great One. Don't make me spend 9 minutes now giving you a write up as to why.

and if you boys want one record that will NEVER ever ever ever ever be broken for the next 2,000 yrs.. 100000% never broken.. it's the Fernando Tatis hitting 2 salami's in 1 one inning. forget about anyone hitting 2 again, but 3 to break it?????? impossible.. not even in a million more seasons.

[Chi_archie]

I wanna see a 5 homer game....lots of 4 homer games (relatively speaking)

[pavyracer]

Doug Evans is the best hockey player ever.

[betplom]

Doug Evans is the best hockey player ever.

Dunno about that but his brother Bob sure makes great breakfast sausages.