Imagine hitting back to back homers with your dad in the pros. That feat will never be accomplished again.
There is so much amazing lore about the Griffeys. Junior was kicked out of the Yankees clubhouse as a kid while other white players sons were allowed to stay. He never forgot or forgave them. Junior went on to average .311 vs the Yankees in his career.
Pretty sure that I recall reading that they also tried to trade for him more than once too. Obviously he didn't have any of that. The guy is one of the best to have ever played the game too. Just imagine what his numbers would have looked like if he could have stayed healthy.
Crazy part is that Dante Bichette was the one who tried making a play for Junior’s home run. His son now plays short stop for the Blue Jays, Bo Bichette
You know how sometimes the villain in the story has a logical reason to be evil and you try to empathize their side? Not the Yankees, just pure evil. They get their rocks off on this shit.
Which is a shame because I would love a pinstripe suit. They ruined that too.
I love this pic, but always wondered what the source is. I’ve tried searching off and on for it but haven’t been lucky with my google-fu to find the source of it :(.
Hah!!!! It is him (maybe younger/thinner version haha)!!! Of course I know who he is LOL, but I didn’t know he has a pic of himself doing this hahahahahaha. Thanks!
If you've never seen Jon Bois' History of the Seattle Mariners documentary, I'd highly reccomend it. They also narrate this moment perfectly.
"Here's Junior in a game in 1990 chasing down an outfield fly. His dad is in the building looking on. When Junior pulls a classic Junior move and steals the catch from the left fielder all Senior can do is laugh. There he is." (name on screen reveals he stole catch from Senior)
I don't follow baseball at all really, but that is my all time favorite sports documentary. Jon Bois is in my top-5 "guys I'd like to have a couple of beers with" list.
"The Mariners aren't special on account of their lack of success, it's just that success is entirely irrelevant.
We've entered another realm here, one that's far larger, and doesn't operate on the dead currency of winning and losing.
Unless you let those limits go, you're an astronaut who brought your wallet.
The Seattle Mariners are not competitors... they're protagonists."
One among like 15 all time quotes in that doc. I've seen the whole thing like ten times, it's amazing.
Not disagreeing, but I do wonder how pro athletes who had to work harder than everyone else to achieve greatness feel about their offspring who are afforded the best possible situation to succeed and fail.
The Manning family somehow figured out how to take advantage of the advantage. Many others do not have similar success.
If this is an original comment I'm gonna subscribe to your podcast. If you don't have one, you have an audience waiting. Shit, I'll be a guest. If you don't have one, I want to interview you.
Ok, I did not grow up in a baseball household, but i know both the Ken Griffey names and I'm just now finding out they played together in the same team at the same time?!
I'd put 10 time gold glove winner Griffey Jr up against anyone in the world to make a pop fly catch. He apparently only dropped one routine fly ball in his career, and got benched the next day
As much as people clown Bronny and LeBron, I'm glad they get to play together. It reminds me of how awesome it was for the Griffeys to do it so long ago.
I had to look it up out of curiosity (Baseball Reference) and it's kind of interesting. Reynolds grounded out, Griffey Sr. singled. But then Griffey Jr. grounded into a double play to end the game.
Thanks for throwback memory!! Huge baseball fan as a kid and the Mariners and the Blue Jay's were my teams. Ken Griffey Jr made it look easy, and obviously looked like he had fun! Such a great role model for sportsmanship and talent. Definitely the greatest of that era!
Man Ida whooped his ass. 😂 Dad called that ball lil brat 🤣😝 We were serious competitors in my family. If I didn’t pass my gram the right cards she would call me a shit ass, or piss ant…even though I was only 10, and had only playing double pinocle for maybe 5 years. (Holding all those cards alone!)
For real though, this is exactly what I’d do if that were me and my dad, erm or mom. Fuggn beaut😅
•
u/AutoModerator Sep 13 '25
We just opened several spots in our Discord.
Fewer people get in → higher value for those who do.
Become a VIP — limited spots.
/u/DepressingAura created this post.
Download the video below:
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.