April 25, 201213 yr QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 25, 2012 -> 05:44 PM) I love that he did it against Balfour. I hate that guy that's the best part of the homer for me! I hate him too.
April 25, 201213 yr Feel sorry for Paulie that his homer will get lost a little bit in how the game ended, on the road, etc.
April 26, 201213 yr Between playing Boston and welcoming back Humber and Paulie...should be a good turnout tomorrow night.
April 26, 201213 yr I was too depressed about the Sox blowing that game and losing that series to open this thread til now. 10 p.m. However ... Congratulations Paulie! What a great hitter you are.
April 26, 201213 yr Congrats Paulie, man he continues to rake, gets better with age, and unless he falls from a cliff next year current deal is looking like a steal! Anyway we can bring him back for another 2 years, on a very big hometown discount kind of deal to be the DH for this team so he can get to 500HR and HOF or am I dreaming?
April 26, 201213 yr http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-leag....m3xPA9KiE5nYcB It's too soon to talk about another Konerko contract extension or 500 homers. So many things could change between now and then. Eventually, his age and degenerative hips have to turn against him sometime, don't they? Is he really going to be one of the most anomalous statistical figures in baseball history, like Omar Vizquel or Julio Franco or Jamie Moyer?
April 26, 201213 yr QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 26, 2012 -> 01:43 AM) http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-leag....m3xPA9KiE5nYcB It's too soon to talk about another Konerko contract extension or 500 homers. So many things could change between now and then. Eventually, his age and degenerative hips have to turn against him sometime, don't they? Is he really going to be one of the most anomalous statistical figures in baseball history, like Omar Vizquel or Julio Franco or Jamie Moyer? He is 6 years younger than Jim Thome and Jim was able to hit a few HRs in his late 30s if I remember correctly
April 26, 201213 yr THOME AGE 35=42 AGE 36=35 AGE 37=34 AGE 38=23 AGE 39=25 AGE 40=15 Paulie's 36 now. The evidence from this trendline would seem to suggest we should ride out his current contract and cut ties after that. Arguably, at age 38, he's going to be a season or season and a half from 500 homers, and pretty much automatic enshrinement in the HoF if he can produce three more years of 30+ homers and 100+ RBI's and a .280-.310 average. But all of these extrapolations are BIG IF's at this point. Edited April 26, 201213 yr by caulfield12
April 26, 201213 yr QUOTE (Tmar @ Apr 25, 2012 -> 07:50 PM) Every time we're down, you can make it right and that makes you larger than life Post of the Century?
April 26, 201213 yr Author QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 26, 2012 -> 03:05 AM) THOME AGE 35=42 AGE 36=35 AGE 37=34 AGE 38=23 AGE 39=25 AGE 40=15 Paulie's 36 now. The evidence from this trendline would seem to suggest we should ride out his current contract and cut ties after that. Arguably, at age 38, he's going to be a season or season and a half from 500 homers, and pretty much automatic enshrinement in the HoF if he can produce three more years of 30+ homers and 100+ RBI's and a .280-.310 average. But all of these extrapolations are BIG IF's at this point. One thing you can say about very few players though...very few have seemed to become tactically better hitters when their physical bodies started weakening. Paul Konerko keeps doing that.
April 26, 201213 yr Very sad that in the juice era, 400 homers is not the benchmark it should be. When Cal Ripken Jr. hit his 400th off Rolando Arrojo on Sept. 2, 1999, he was the 27th player to reach that milestone. We’re in the 13th season since then, and 21 guys have done it during this period. That’s what historian Ken Burns meant when he said the steroid era was an attack on the integrity of the game.
April 26, 201213 yr http://www.csnchicago.com/baseball-chicago...mp;feedID=10338 JJ STANKEVITZ csnchicago.png Paul Konerko's first career home run came on June 6, 1998 at the Kingdome off Seattle's Bob Wells. It took him four years to hit his next milestone blast, with that coming off Atlanta's Kerry Lightenberg at Turner Field in June of 2002 (a month in which he had four multi-homer games). No. 200 came three years later off Tim Wakefield in Boston, just a few months before the White Sox won the World Series. His 300th was more memorable for what happened before it, as Konerko and Jermaine Dye became the first teammates in history to hit their 300th home runs in back-to-back at-bats. And then No. 400 came yesterday off Oakland's Grant Balfour. Interestingly enough, none of these milestone homers have come on the South Side, although the biggest one of his career -- Game 2's grand slam -- happened at U.S. Cellular Field.
April 27, 201213 yr http://espn.go.com/mlb/blog/_/name/stark_j...ding-facts-week 4. Paul Konerko picked an excellent spot for his 400th homer Wednesday. Just your basic game-tying bomb in the ninth inning. That's all. According to the Sultan of Swat Stats, SABR home-run historian David Vincent, Konerko was only the second player ever whose 400th, 500th, 600th or 700th home run was a game-tying or go-ahead homer with his team trailing in the ninth inning or later. The other: Mike Schmidt's 500th on April 18, 1987 -- a game-winning three-run shot in the ninth.
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