I'm trying to bounce between the local and national coverage. Musial has overtaken the 6-0 Blues-Red Wings telecast (!) and even managed to get on the myopic ESPN SportsCenter telecast. (Te'o hasn't scratched his butt recently?) The overwhelming narrative about Musial has become over the last decade or so that he is the ultimate underrated dude relative to his cohort. People like Jayson Stark say that.
We're gonna have a two hour retrospective on him on Fox MW Monday night. Musial was always right with the racial issues, and they'll have a respective about him on MLK Day--after Willie Mays put out a positive eulogy on him.
BA is kind of a dumb stat, but no one other than Musial has ever hit .300 for more consecutive seasons than he did, sixteen.
Second all time in total bases.
I hate to make this a comparison with Albert, I really do. I think that it is
a) a strength of this organization that losing Pujols has become sort of a large bump in the road rather than a crisis
and
b) a fact that people here really wanted Pujols to become the second Musial, as though everyone thought that was totally in Albert's reach. Maybe Albert will hit his achievements with two franchises, but the love was that he'd do that with one. And people here were willing to admit Pujols to a club of two. Wanted him to.
Ah, they're showing Musial in his last start. I value him like I value Henry Aaron. Maybe not as much, because of white privilege, but you can't hit the guy on that basis.
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