The world may never know
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
rickey's the best
― jhøshea, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
he's not still playing in some independent league, is he? but he was last year?-- jergïns, Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
-- jergïns, Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
serious answer: he's a mets coach now
― hstencil, Friday, 3 August 2007 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/?p=10667
― hstencil, Friday, 3 August 2007 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link
serious answer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q1kcftSGug
― sanskrit, Friday, 3 August 2007 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
awes midwestern aspie guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL4WjXvtQD4 (shades of king of comedy)
― sanskrit, Friday, 3 August 2007 00:50 (sixteen years ago) link
ffw to the very end: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr8m8hONvpw only worth it because some dude shouts "rickey touched my hand!"
― sanskrit, Friday, 3 August 2007 00:55 (sixteen years ago) link
odd silent collectro porn: http://one.revver.com/watch/124798
― sanskrit, Friday, 3 August 2007 01:01 (sixteen years ago) link
FineBrothers
― hstencil, Friday, 3 August 2007 01:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Rickey Henderson and Bobby Bonilla playing cards in the clubhouse WHILE A GAME WAS UNDERWAY.
Seriously, I love Rickey. My dad freaked out when I hung a poster of him in my room when I was 12.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 3 August 2007 01:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Henderson and Bonilla playing cards in the clubhouse WHILE A PLAYOFF GAME WAS UNDERWAY
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 3 August 2007 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Henderson and Bonilla playing cards in the OUTFIELD DURING GAME 7 OF THE WORLD SERIES
― jhøshea, Friday, 3 August 2007 13:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Henderson and Bonilla playing cards in the OUTFIELD DURING EXTRA INNINGS IN GAME 7 OF THE WORLD SERIES AFTER KILLING A BIRD
― G00blar, Friday, 3 August 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Henderson and Bonilla FUCKING A BIRD IN MONUMENT PARK
― jhøshea, Friday, 3 August 2007 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/pics/rickey_henderson_autograph.jpghttp://img516.imageshack.us/img516/4411/rickeyrw0.jpghttp://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/pics/rickey_henderson_autograph.jpg
― sanskrit, Thursday, 31 January 2008 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4572/1428qb0.gif http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4572/1428qb0.gif http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4572/1428qb0.gif
― sanskrit, Thursday, 31 January 2008 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^pls explain this, young man.
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Friday, 1 February 2008 00:46 (sixteen years ago) link
someone snatched Rickey's chain
― sanskrit, Friday, 1 February 2008 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Honor Rickey again
http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/bats-right-throws-left-the-best-players-in-major-league-history/
― Andy K, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 12:52 (fifteen years ago) link
fuck that marginal hof inductee interloper jim rice with a fungo bat but:
http://www.youtube.com/v/RSRptJ8fj-Q&hl=en&fs=1
― sanskrit, Sunday, 5 April 2009 00:18 (fifteen years ago) link
ignore the above this is better:
― sanskrit, Sunday, 5 April 2009 00:24 (fifteen years ago) link
That was not a convincing "no" he gave about Game 6 of the 2004 World Series.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 5 April 2009 01:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm going to "Rickey Henderson Night" at the Oakland Coliseum.
They are going to retire his jersey in a pregame ceremony and the first 10,000 fans get a retro-jersey. I love Rickey. discus.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 July 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I love Rickey too. He had every right to call himself the greatest. Lou Brock should've stole more bases if he didn't want to witness that.
I wonder if he actually "cashed" that million-dollar check.
― http://tinyurl.com/6l76lz (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 23 July 2009 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
damn i feel guilty posting those apocryphal stories upthread after seeing that mlb network special on him from last sunday. if it comes up again near induction time (and it will), watch or tivo the shit out of it. really great interviews, touching stuff.
― sanskrit, Thursday, 23 July 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
oh just looked it up it's this sunday they're inducting JHEAH
― sanskrit, Thursday, 23 July 2009 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
The Henderson special is on again at 10:30am Saturday and 6:00pm Sunday (eastern).
― govern yourself accordingly, Thursday, 23 July 2009 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/12/d3/12d34f437efdbed5935474a5351434d414f4541.jpg
^^I owned and read this as a kid
― Armageddon Two: Armageddon (dyao), Thursday, 23 July 2009 23:24 (fourteen years ago) link
http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/ept_sports_mlb_experts__32/ept_sports_mlb_experts-620854798-1248480943.jpg?ymwK.nBDDH7IpMnE
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Honoring-Rickey-Henderson-The-best-photos-and-q?urn=mlb,178662
― Stacey Pollen (Andy K), Sunday, 26 July 2009 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
^____________________________________^
― Batsman (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 26 July 2009 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
"They kept that s--- a secret from me ... I wish they had told me. My God, could you imagine Rickey on 'roids? Oh, baby, look out!" — Henderson on steroids, The New Yorker, Sept. 12, 2005
Love. This. Guy.
― http://tinyurl.com/ggggst (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 26 July 2009 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I haven't cared about the HoF in years, but between Rickey and Rice (who was my hero when I first started watching the game), I'll even listen to Harold Reynolds today.
― Beanbag the Gardener (WmC), Sunday, 26 July 2009 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
my god it's full of runs
― a narwhal done gored my sister nell (cankles), Sunday, 26 July 2009 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
old and everyone's heard it, but illest quote ever:
"If you could split him in two, you'd have two Hall of Famers." — Bill James, baseball statistician
― sanskrit, Monday, 27 July 2009 01:02 (fourteen years ago) link
If you could split him in two, you'd have two guys who are bad at reading off of cards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSRptJ8fj-Q
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 27 July 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/gcutz.jpg
― sanskrit, Friday, 12 October 2012 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
Extremely detailed piece by Daniel Marks that tries to sort leadoff hitters through the years into families, finishing with a ranking of the 25 greatest:
1. Rickey Henderson2. Tim Raines3. Kenny Lofton4. Pete Rose5, Paul Molitor6. Richie Ashburn7. Brett Butler8. Ichiro Suzuki9. Stan Hack10. Craig Biggio
First thought is that the families are too specific--there's like 20 of them, when a more generalized six or seven would be more user-friendly. Carew's omission from the rankings is easily explained: he only led off 370 games. Boggs at #20 less defensible, I'd say, even with the disclaimer that "I do give a fair amount of weight to having done the job for a long time"--he led off almost 1,000 games, and ranks below a number of inferior hitters who led off somewhere between 1,000-1,300 games. Anyway, impressive piece.
http://www.billjamesonline.com/%e2%80%9clet_your_first_striker_always_be_the_coolest_hand_of_the_nine%e2%80%9d/
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
Sorry, didn't realize that was behind the firewall. Almost always, if it's not by James it's publicly accessible.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/cc/b3/86/ccb3863562ddcd198d62ebdd065062a6.jpg
― calstars, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
happy rickeymas! he is 60 today
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 December 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
gather those rosebuds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lssLGZH9fQM
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 03:28 (five years ago) link
If he were to play next year, I bet he wouldn't score more than 70 runs.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 26 December 2018 05:08 (five years ago) link
well, if Mike Trout was hitting behind him...
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 December 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link